Identifying song title on radio

[dominicf]

This is probably a stupid question [I'm new to all of this], but I was looking for an app that identifies songs that I'm listening to at the time on my phone's radio.

Can I do this with the likes of 'Soundhound', or are these type of apps just for identifying songs played from an external source, rather than from the phone's radio itself?

Cheers.

 

[TMAX]

there's two.
Shazam and soundhound they both are good personaly I like shazam.
they work very well have to be connected to wireless internet for it to search.

 

[TMAX]

sorry didnt read your msg properly,
from radio good question I'LL WATCH THIS THREAD MYSELF TO SEE WHAT CROPS UP

 

[Italo]

As long as Soundhound or Shazam can "hear" they song, they should be able to identify it. So, if your radio app can run in the background and play the music through the phones speaker (or external speakers) so the mic can pick it up, it should work. Who makes a radio app that doesn't say what song is playing?

 

[tcat007]

I just tried the built in FM radio (or FM-Two app) on my Galaxy Player, with headphones plugged in and ext speaker on, Shazam will not "listen", so does not work. With Jango running it does listen and gives you results. I think it only works with no headphones (but real FM radio doesn't work without headphones plugged in).

edit:: I just tried Soundhound too, it also doesn't work. The headphones seem to disconnect the mic, if the mic is disconnected, neither work.

 

[dominicf]

I just tried the built in FM radio (or FM-Two app) on my Galaxy Player, with headphones plugged in and ext speaker on, Shazam will not "listen", so does not work. With Jango running it does listen and gives you results. I think it only works with no headphones (but real FM radio doesn't work without headphones plugged in).

edit:: I just tried Soundhound too, it also doesn't work. The headphones seem to disconnect the mic, if the mic is disconnected, neither work.

Thanks very much Tcat.

I shall try 'Jango' with your method of playing the radio through external speaker and see how I go.

 

[dominicf]

Yes it does seem to work. The thing is, with Jango the name of the song is already available.

It would great to find an app that can identify songs playing on the real FM radio. I guess I'll have to stick with the old method of hoping the DJ tells me once the song ends!

 

[tcat007]

It does fine with songs on a car radio. And if you have headphones with a mic button, my guess is it will hear the song.

 

[itsallgood]

Have your tried iheart Radio app to see if the stations you listen to are there? They give the title and artist name.

 

[sleedeane]

Tunein is a real good radio. It shows the song title.
And Soundhound works great with it (I don't know about with headphones).

 

[dominicf]

Have your tried iheart Radio app to see if the stations you listen to are there? They give the title and artist name.

Very good idea.

 

[Saenyi]

if you really want such an applicacation then just sell your phone and look for a sony phone,they have a powerful built in TrackID software that will identify all your music either from internal source or external source regardless of whether you are listening via earphones or not.