The desktop version of musiXmatch is also quite similar to Shazam in the sense that it is only available for Windows 8.1 via the Windows Store. This would mean that musiXmatch has the ability to recognize a lot of songs.
The music recognition feature called “Music ID” found in musiXmatch is powered by Gracenote and if you didn’t know, Gracenote has the largest database of music and video metadata. Upon finding a match, Shazam will show the album cover together with links to buy the music. Run the program, click on the big Shazam icon and it will start spinning to start recognizing the music coming from your microphone. Shazam is a very popular music identification app for Android with nearly 2 millions reviews averaging 4.4 out of 5 stars! Fortunately you can also find a desktop version but only available to download for Windows 8.1 through the Windows Store. Fast, no frills and easy to use since there is no need to install any third party application for midomi to work other than Flash Player. You can either sing, hum or even play the music if you’ve managed to record it and midomi will attempt to recognize the song.
All you need to do is click on the button that says “Click and Sing or Hum” followed by clicking the allow button when you are prompted to give camera and microphone access to midomi. Midomi uses flash player to activate the microphone on your computer so that it can capture the music for recognition. This is why you can find SoundHound being advertised in most parts of midomi’s website and even using their favicon! If you’ve heard of the popular SoundHound app for smartphones, it actually started off from midomi, a free web based music recognition service.
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