How to find songs from a video: the easiest and most reliable ways

It happens that when you watch a video on YouTube or other similar services, you hear a melody that you really like, but alas, the author of the video doesn’t say what kind of song it is, and he doesn’t respond to comments, or such an opportunity and completely disabled. How to find songs from the video in this case? The article is devoted to the solution of this problem.

The easiest way to search

The easiest and most obvious way to find songs from a video is to search the text search engines.

If at least one phrase of a song is clearly audible in the video, you have a rather big chance of successfully finding its lyrics, which means the name, the artist, and other information.

In order to start a song search, you need to type the phrase you heard in the search engine in quotation marks (this way the refined search is activated). About 80% of the songs are the first time.

If you are not sure that you heard the phrase correctly, or the song wasn’t found on the first request, you can try to search the text without quotes by entering additional keywords like “song”, “song text”, etc. This will expand the search range and increase the chances of success.

Search using a smartphone on Android or iOS

Today your phone is not only a device for making calls and exchanging text messages, it is a multifunctional “harvester” capable of many things - you just need to install the necessary software. Even to search for songs, they created an application - Shazam.

Shazam (aka “Shazam” in the Russian-speaking environment) is a service for mobile platforms, which has about 11 million tracks in its database! An impressive amount.

The search for a song from the video is as follows:

1. You install the application from Google Play or the AppStore (the procedure is no different from installing any other application).
2. Launch Shazam.
3. Start the video and click on the big "Shazam" sign.
4. Nothing more is required of you: the program itself activates the microphone, listens to part of the audio recording and conducts a search in its databases, after which it will produce the result.

In order for the search to be carried out as efficiently as possible, select the segment of the video where the song is well heard, there are no extraneous sounds - the speech of the presenter or the author of the video, cars passing by, etc. The chance of a successful search increases if the melody is well expressed - for example, in the refrain .

If you are endowed with musical ear, then you can try to sing a song to the program yourself. But you really need to have a hearing: you don’t get into the notes - “Shazam” will “say” that he will not recognize your singing.

Search using the Midomi online service

How to find songs from a video if you don’t distinguish words or they don’t exist, and Shazam doesn’t want to be installed on the phone, or does your model not support this application? In this case, the Midomi online service will come to your aid.

The essence of the work is the same as that of Shazam, but to access the service you only need a computer and a running browser.

How to find songs from a video using Midomi:

1. Go to the Midomi service website.
2. Search for “Voice Search,” the button labeled “Click and sing or hum.” Click her.
3. Sing or scroll through a piece of song recording to identify.
4. Get the result.

Midomi is better at recognizing “sung” songs than “Shazam”, so you can try it even if your hearing is far from ideal. In the end, it's just fun.

If nothing else helped, or the most time-consuming way

One of the most difficult ways to find a song from a video will take much longer, and you will need to install additional programs, but if none of the above methods helped, and the desire has not yet died out, you will have to tinker.

How to find songs from a video if other options didn’t work:

1. First you need to save the video from YouTube or another online resource to your computer. The easiest way to do this is to use the savefrom service: youtube videos can be saved by entering the characters "ss" in the address bar before the address, immediately after http and after www, if it is in the address.
2. Then you need to extract the audio track from the video. For this, it is not necessary to use expensive software - free lightweight programs like "Free Video to MP3 Converter" are enough.
3. The resulting mp3 file (if necessary, you can further process it and cut out the part with a "clean" record without extraneous sounds) must be uploaded to any online music recognition service that requires an excerpt in mp3 and start the search.

This method is the most reliable, but also the longest. It helps in the vast majority of cases.

Now you know how to find your favorite tune or song that sounded in the video. There are many ways - choose the one that is preferable for you. Good luck