Have you heard a song on the radio that you liked and can't figure out the name of the song or artist?
Last time we had posed this question, we had recommended that you can checkout Shazam, a song recognition application for the iPhone.
But what if you had heard a song somewhere (which you can sing or hum) and you are trying to figure out the name and artist of the song?
Midomi, another iPhone app that can help you out in such situations. Midomi, from Melodis, is an alternative to Shazam and probably the only iPhone application that allows you to search for music using your voice by singing or humming.
Shazam provides a very simple interface with a single Tag button. It is designed to focus on one thing - Search music and it does a good job of it.
Midomi also offers a friendly interface but with more options. After launching Midomi, by default, it'll show the "Grab" screen. To search for music, tap the large search button and hold your iPhone to the music source for around 10 seconds (in some cases it takes 30 seconds). Midomi will look up its music database.
If the search returns any result, you can tap on the result to get more details of the song such as the artist, the name of the song and the album along with its album clip art. You also have an iTunes link to buy the song and a link to view related music videos. Further, you can bookmark or share the song with others. Midomi also offers a lot of information about the artist and the album.
Sometimes, you have a song in your mind that you might have heard somewhere (which you can sing or hum) and you are trying to figure out the name and artist of the song so that you can buy it. Midomi lets you search for music using your voice by singing or humming.
In the Sing screen, tap the large button and sing the song. Midomi will then look up all the possible matches. Midomi also lets you search for a particular song by typing in the song name or artist or even its lyrics. You can also talk into the iPhone and let Midomi search for the song.
You can watch the video of Midomi in action to get an overview:
Midomi is a free iPhone application. And you can download it from iTunes with this direct link.
Midomi has lot more features than Shazam and currently our preferred music search app for the iPhone.
What do you think about Midomi? Do you think Midomi is a better music search application than Shazam? As always, please leave your comments below.
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This humming thing never worked 4 me, even on up-to-date songs.Shazzam is still da one
I still love Shazam.
I never got Midomi to work for me with humming or anything–maybe I'm just not good at it?
Anyways, Shazam has been right 99% of the time. Only time it's messed up is when I tried to record a song that wasn't well-known. And it just told me "no results." So I dunno if that should even count.
I also don't like how Midomi gives you several options, because I get confused and lost. Doesn't help me much, unlike Shazam, which gives me one (almost always correct), result.
I LOVE MIDOMI!!!
Shazam gets boring after a few tries. I have been having tons of fun with midomi. It is the best app to show off your iphone to your friends.
Midomi also provides artist photos and biography which shazam does not provide.
So if I had to choose one, I would go with midomi.
I am a convert. I used shazam for a while but since midomi was released I notice all the extras feature that shazam does not have and I wanted, midomi provided.
I also noticed midomi is getting better and better everyday. Its accuracy is much better from when it was initially released when the iPhone came out.
One big Hurray for midomi and sorry Shazam you are out of my iPhone.
midomi is terrible. I can never get it to work unless I hold it up to my radio.
The problem with it is that it uses user's recordings to base it's results. Some of the users have horrible, horrible renditions of songs…probably why it's so hard to find music.
Shazam works 99% of the time, the other 1% is when music is unidentifiable. Shazam looks cooler anyways.
What good is having all the other options when they don't work? And for the biography and artist pictures? You have an iPhone. Use the Internet