Tag: shazam

  • mildly impressed by shazam (and soundhound)

    I’m a late adopter of Shazam, which is a semi-magic music recognition service. I just gave it a ten song shuffle from my collection.

    Shazam matched:

    • LLL — Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
    • Puppet Master — Marissa Nadler
    • He Woke Me Up Again — Sufjan Stevens
    • At The Bottom Of Everything — Bright Eyes
    • Derelict — Beck

    Shazam found no match for:

    Shazam was completely wrong about:

    So: 50% hit rate, 50% miss — and one false positive. Adequate.

    Karl recommended I try SoundHound. It matched:

    • LLL — Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
    • He Woke Me Up Again — Sufjan Stevens
    • Religious Songs — Withered Hand
    • Caney Fork River — Old Man Luedecke
    • At The Bottom Of Everything — Bright Eyes
    • Derelict — Beck

    Soundhound didn’t match:

    • Puppet Master — Marissa Nadler
    • Reuben — Rafe Stefanini
    • Appetite — Mount Eerie
    • Setting Forth — Flashman

    So it knew about Withered Hand and Old Man Luedecke, but didn’t know about Marissa. About the same; maybe slightly better.