![]() ![]() Otherwise, just sit back and enjoy the experience as the app slowly takes you on a journey of discovery from one new track to another, each dimmed image lighting up to indicate the songs you have listened to on the grid. Don’t like a track? Simply pinch the screen to be taken back to the grid interface. Touch the screen again and you’re fed with trivia on the artist links to related web videos an interface to share the music via Facebook, Twitter and links to more songs by the performer. Touch the display while the track plays and you see its lyrics appearing in sync with the song’s playback. Tap any image and it expands to fill your display, while a song begins streaming onto your device. However, this software only recognises tunes by its original recording and cannot identify songs if you sing or hum into your microphone.) Aweditorium Fire this app on your iPad and you’re greeted by a huge grid of dimmed photographs of music artists and bands. ![]() Available for: iOS, Android, Windows Mobile and Nokia Symbian devices ( Blackberry users might want to try out Shazam, an app that lets you identify the names of tracks and performing artists. Users can also use the app to check out the top-trending songs, as well as share their own list of discoveries. The software ‘listens’ to your ‘performance’ and within a few seconds, it searches its database to return with the name of the artist, his/her website address (if any), the track details (including albums in which the song has featured), as well links from around the internet that could include song lyrics, YouTube videos, etc. All you have to do is tap the huge button on the app and simply hum or whistle the tune into your mobile or tablet’s microphone. Available for Windows at Discovering New Music Soundhound Ever had a tune get stuck in your head, but went crazy because you just couldn’t remember what it was? Soundhound to the rescue! This app is one of the best music- related software we have seen. But try fiddling around with the databases, since in our tests, Amazon managed to recognize a few Indipop albums that the others didn’t. Again, much like Picard, it struggled with Indian songs. The software also gives you the option of choosing different databases, such as freedb, discogs, Amazon and MusicBrainz, but the default setting will get the job done for most of your needs. ![]() The brilliant part about Mp3tag is how quickly it can find tags based on your file name match it with its default database and appropriately label all of your ID3 tags. While it largely does the job-even with multiple artists and albums-we recommend sticking to one artist at a time (and perhaps an album at a time) because you don’t want to risk wrong tags. Once you start up the software, the first thing to do is to add the folder you want to look-up tags for. Available for Windows and Mac at /doc/ MusicBrainz_Picard Mp3tag If you have the filenames intact but just need to get the ID3 tags in place, there is nothing better than Mp3tag. While it recognized Indian Ocean’s Kandisa and the Rang De Basanti soundtrack, it couldn’t identify Lucky Ali’s Sifar. The only real problem with Picard is that for Indian songs, it’s not foolproof. If you’re searching to identify a full album’s worth of tracks, then employ your own intelligence and don’t rely on the software blindly. And be aware that it’s not a perfect program. We recommend that you carefully select the files that have no information, or Picard will just overwrite ID3 tags according to its database. Of course, you’ll have to be connected to the internet when you do this. ![]() Load up your music directory and Picard will scan the files and match them with its large database to identify the anonymous songs. MusicBrainz Picard features fantastic technology that helps you out by using audio ‘fingerprints’. And sometimes, you might have a full album, but with no way of telling which one it is. MusicBrainz Picard “C:\Music\Hindi Pop\Track 01” – does this look familiar? If your music library has a few files that you can’t name, then you can’t possibly tag them. ![]()
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