知道(Know)一首歌的曲调，但不记得歌词？通常，我会在收音机或咖啡店(coffee shop)听到一首歌曲，如果我无法确定歌手，我会在脑海中新鲜时搜索一些歌词。(Google)几个月前我写过关于如何通过歌词找到歌曲的名称或标题的文章，( how to find the name or title of a song by lyrics,) 但这只有在你知道歌词的情况下才有用。
此外，有很多歌曲没有歌词，所以在这种情况下，您肯定必须通过曲调或声音来识别歌曲。幸运的是，有很多方法可以使用在线工具、桌面应用程序和智能手机应用程序(desktop apps and smartphone apps)轻松识别歌曲。在本文中，我将列出您可以用来标记歌曲的不同方法。
在线识别歌曲
如果您坐在电脑前，那么识别歌曲的最简单方法就是使用许多免费的在线服务。多年来，它们已经变得相当先进，甚至允许您只需哼唱歌曲的曲调即可识别它们。
美见
Midomi 会让你唱歌或哼一首曲子来识别一首歌，所以如果你喜欢一直给自己唱歌，这对你来说是完美的。我是一个糟糕的歌手，所以服务很难识别出我尝试唱的一半歌曲。我的妻子经过并唱了三首歌，Midomi认出了这三首歌。所以看起来你的歌唱能力会影响你的成绩。
值得庆幸的是，事实证明，哼几首曲子可以为我带来更好的效果，所以如果你的歌声不起作用，请尝试哼唱。准确性并不是那么好，所以如果您无法使用Midomi识别您的歌曲，请继续阅读。
音频标签
Midomi是我能找到的唯一一款在线工具(online tool)，可以让你通过唱歌或哼唱来识别歌曲。其他一切要么是智能手机应用程序，要么是桌面软件(smartphone app or desktop software)。我发现的另一个有趣的网站是AudioTag。
在这里，您基本上可以上传歌曲的原声片段(sound bite)，它会尝试将歌曲与其在线数据库进行比较。如果您听到一首歌曲并且能够使用手机录制其中的一部分，那么您可以通过将其上传到AudioTag来试试运气。如果您的 MP3 文件没有可识别的艺术家或歌曲(artist or song) 信息并且需要(information and need)正确标记它们，它也可以证明是有用的。
除了这些自动标记站点之外，还有几个人工站点可以帮助您识别音乐。基本上(Basically)，您上传您的歌唱或哼唱(singing or humming)或音乐部分，(music portion and people)互联网(Internet)上的人会尝试帮助您识别它。
名称MyTune
NameMyTune是一个非常简单的网站，只有两个选项：录制自己或收听他人的录音以帮助识别他们的曲调。只需单击(Just click)查找歌曲名称(Find the name of a song)并允许访问您的麦克风。按下录音键(record button)，开始唱歌！选择音乐的流派和年龄，然后输入您的电子邮件地址(email address)。现在你只需要等待，希望有人能够为你解决这个问题。
瓦扎松
WatZatSong有一个可怕的名字，但它的作用与NameMyTune相同。我更喜欢NameMyTune，因为它不需要(t require)你像WatZatSong那样注册。完成后，只需录制您的音频样本并高枕无忧(sample and sit)，而其他人则可以识别您所听的疯狂音乐！
(Identify Songs)使用智能手机应用程序(Smartphone Apps)识别歌曲
如果您可以使用智能手机识别歌曲，您的选择范围就会大大扩展。您可能以前听说过几个应用程序，因为它们很受欢迎。
沙赞
Shazam是识别音乐和其他类型媒体的最流行工具之一。多年来，该应用程序获得了越来越多的功能，对于狂热的音乐听众来说，这个应用程序非常棒。最好的功能之一是自动后台收听选项，它允许您启用该选项将持续识别音乐、电影和电视节目，而无需打开应用程序。
它在不耗尽电池方面做得很好，而且确实有效。如果您不想错过一天中听到的一首歌，那么Shazam非常棒。它还具有许多其他功能，例如实时歌词和观看来自YouTube歌曲的(YouTube)音乐视频(music videos)的能力。
猎犬
SoundHound是另一个适用于所有智能手机平台的应用程序，它与(SoundHound)Shazam非常相似，但也有听你唱歌或哼唱(song or hum)的附加选项。
我还没有找到任何其他可以听你唱歌或哼唱的智能手机应用程序，所以如果你想这样做，这是你唯一的选择。SoundHound还具有现场歌词和其他正常的社交音乐功能。
(Identify Songs)使用桌面软件(Desktop Software)识别歌曲
桌面软件有几个选择，但不是很多。此外，除非您没有智能手机并且不经常使用互联网(Internet)，否则桌面软件可能是您的最后选择。
听歌
Audiggle是一个简单的小型桌面应用程序(desktop app)，它可以通过麦克风聆听歌曲并尝试识别它。当你第一次运行它时，它会要求你选择一个录音输入(recording input)，然后你必须登录。您可以直接从程序界面(program interface)注册，然后登录。
登录后，您可以开始使用该程序来识别歌曲。总的来说，它在识别歌曲方面做得不错，但没有什么可写的。如果他们只有该软件的网络版本，该网站称他们正在开发该软件，那就太好了，但这可能永远不会发生。
图纳蒂奇
Tunatic是另一个免费程序，但它真的很老了。根据该网站，它仍然声明它是为Windows 2000和Windows XP设计的！哎呀！可悲的是，确实没有其他用于识别音乐的桌面应用程序。(desktop apps)就像我之前提到的，这一切都在网上或智能手机应用程序(smartphone app)中。
安装后，会出现一个小窗口，似乎漂浮在桌面上。只需(Just)开始播放您的歌曲，然后单击小搜索图标按钮(search icon button)即可识别歌曲。该软件确实需要一些时间，但似乎可以工作。这并不是说结果非常好。我试图找出一些较新的歌曲，Tunatic带着一些我从未听说过的疯狂结果回来了。我认为它太旧了，它可能只适用于2002 年(year 2002)之前的歌曲。
如您所见，您拥有的最佳选择来自智能手机应用程序(smartphone apps)。就歌曲数据库而言，它们似乎是最可靠和最新的。一些网站也不错，但我在手机应用程序(phone apps)上的运气要好得多。如果您使用其他东西来识别音乐，请在评论中告诉我们。享受！
How to Identify Music or Songs by Sound
Know the tune to a song, but don’t remеmber the lyrіcs? Normally, I hear a song on the radio or in a coffee shop and іf I can’t figure out the artist, I just Googlе some of the lуrіcs while theу are fresh in my mind. І had written a few months back about how to find the name or title of a song by lyrics, but that’s only useful if you know the lyrics.
Also, there are lots of songs without any lyrics, so in those cases you definitely have to identify the song by tune or by sound. Luckily, there are a ton of ways to identify songs easily with online tools, desktop apps and smartphone apps. In this article, I’ll list out the different methods for you can utilize to tag a song.
Identify Songs Online
If you’re sitting with your computer, then the easiest way to identify a song would be to use many of the free online services. Over the years, they have become fairly advanced and even allow you to just hum the tune of songs to identify them.
Midomi
Midomi will let you sing or hum a tune to identify a song, so if you like singing to yourself all the time, this will be perfect for you. I’m a terrible singer, so the service had a pretty hard time identifying half of the songs I tried to sing. My wife passed by and sang three songs and Midomi identified all three. So it looks like your singing ability will affect your results.
Thankfully, humming a few tunes proved to deliver better results for me so if your singing isn’t working, try humming. The accuracy isn’t all that great, so keep reading if you aren’t able to identify your song with Midomi.
AudioTag
Midomi is the only online tool that I could find that lets you sing or hum to identify songs. Everything else is either a smartphone app or desktop software. The other interesting site I found was AudioTag.
Here you can basically upload a sound bite from the song and it will try to compare the song to it’s online database. If you hear a song and are able to record a portion of it using your phone, then you can try your luck by uploading that to AudioTag. It can also prove useful if you have MP3 files with no identifiable artist or song information and need to tag them properly.
In addition to these automatic tagging sites, there are a couple of human powered sites to help you identify music. Basically, you upload your singing or humming or music portion and people on the Internet will try to help you identify it.
NameMyTune
NameMyTune is a very simple site with only two options: record yourself or listen to other people’s recording to help identify their tune. Just click on Find the name of a song and allow access to your microphone. Press the record button and start singing! Choose the genre of the music and about how old it is and then type in your email address. Now you just have to wait and hopefully someone will be able to figure it out for you.
WatZatSong
WatZatSong has a terrible name, but does the same thing as NameMyTune. I like NameMyTune more because it doesn’t require you to sign up like WatZatSong does. Once you do, just record your audio sample and sit back and relax while someone else identify the crazy music you listen to!
Identify Songs using Smartphone Apps
Your options are greatly expanded if you can use your smartphone to identify songs. You’ve probably heard of several apps before because of their popularity.
Shazam
Shazam is the one of the most popular tools for identifying music and other types of media. The app has gotten more and more features over the years and for avid music listeners, this app is great. One of the best features is the automatic background listening option it lets you enable that will continuously identify music, movies and TV shows without having to open the app.
It does a good job of not killing your battery and it really works. If you never want to miss a song that you hear while going about your day, then Shazam is pretty awesome. It also has a bunch of other features like real-time lyrics and the ability to watch music videos for the songs from YouTube.
SoundHound
SoundHound is another app for all smartphone platforms that is pretty similar to Shazam, but also has the additional option of listening to you sing a song or hum.
I haven’t been able to find any other smartphone app that can listen to you sing or hum, so this is your only choice if you want to go about doing it that way. SoundHound also has live lyrics and the other normal social music features.
Identify Songs with Desktop Software
There are a couple of options when it comes to desktop software, but not a whole lot. Also, unless you don’t own a smartphone and don’t use the Internet much, desktop software is probably your last choice.
Audiggle
Audiggle is a simple little desktop app that will listen to a song from your microphone and try to identity it. When you first run it, it’ll ask you to choose a recording input and then you’ll have to login. You can register directly from the program interface and then login.
One you login, you can start using the program to identify songs. Overall, it did a decent job of identifying songs, but nothing to write home about. It would be nice if they just had a web version of the software, which the site says they are working on, but that may never happen.
Tunatic
Tunatic is another free program, but it’s really old. According to the website, it still states that it’s been designed for Windows 2000 and Windows XP! Yikes! Sadly, there really are no other desktop apps for identifying music. Like I mentioned before, it’s all most online or in a smartphone app.
Once you install it, a small little window appears that seems to floats on the desktop. Just start playing your song and then click the little search icon button to identify the song. The software does take a bit of time, but seems to work. That’s not to say the results were very good. I tried to identify some newer songs and Tunatic came back with some crazy results I had never heard of. I think it’s so old that it probably only works for songs before the year 2002.
So as you can see, the best options you have are from the smartphone apps. They seem to be the most reliable and most up-to-date in terms of song databases. Some of the websites aren’t too bad either, but I had a lot more luck with the phone apps. If you use something else to identify music, let us know in the comments. Enjoy!
