SoundHound∞ - Music Discovery Reviews

by OldSchool007

Why did I just delete SoundHoundMusicDiscovery after using it for 10 years??

Started using SoundHoundMusicDiscovery when it was free. It was such a clean interface with no advertisements, unlike Sh.....m which had too many ads to be useful. I even paid ($9.95, I think, twice because of an iTunes/Apple ID screwup). During the last 2 years, SoundHound has deteriorated to the point I am about to uninstall it.

I like Pre-Listening, because quite often (like during TV shows - E.G., “The Imposters,” there is only 15-20 seconds of music before the song is gone. I love building my Discoveries List from anywhere I hear music I might want to purchase (or now, stream from TIDAL.

My current issue is that when streaming TIDAL to any of my Yamaha AV Receivers (mainly the RX-A3080) using Apple’s AirPlay, when I launch SoundHound, it immediately STOPS my stream and begins playing on my iPhone. If I launch SoundHound while streaming from TIDAL, it is because I want to check lyrics — and that is all. To stop my listening experience and shunt the sound back to my iPhone is UNACCEPTABLE.

I will now start a search to find something which works like SoundHound used to work - for the user, NOT for the bean-counters!

by BigChangeOfHeart

What a joke! This recent update on SoundHound won’t let me play a video with my songs under discoveries or favorites. Specifically, this recent update won’t let me select one particular song that is featured in any album or videos associated with that particular song. The old updates were much better than the latest update because you can choose what song you want to play along with other videos associated with the song you want to listen. Please, SoundHound, fix this problem and restore it to its former glory. I’ve been using SoundHoundMusicDiscovery since 2014.

by Michhop

The old gray mare just ain’t what she used to be.
SoundHoundMusicDiscovery used to deploy instantly and now even with new equipment it’s like waiting for a snail to cross the road.
A small snail and if your not sitting on top of a cell tower delivering LTE you are simply wasting your efforts by the time it deploys and stops telling you your not connected to the internet the song is gone. While using it in the wilds of the northwest where my carriers signal is still not the best it used to pull an I.D. Of something but no more I guess all developers think you have a cable connection in cell phone land and have started building for stay at home users. And the success rate has disappeared to next to nothing and it used to identify the most obscure music you could find. I have heard there are other music identification apps out there and I think I’m going to see what they are like. After many years of great music identified found and corralled with Soundhounds help I have reached the end of my patience to many backwards function losing updates and to many you are not connected to the internet messages I am gone now how do I take my history with me?

by SeekerJones

Been using SoundHound for YEARS! The fact that SoundHound could identify lesser known music like obscure Jazz standards and contemporary BlueGrass made it a standout app. Enjoyed it so much I bought the Infinity version 6-7 years ago. Used it to identify hundreds of songs in that time.

But now SoundHound no longer works. Wasn’t working with iOS 10, so I finally up updated my 6S to iOS 12, but still doesn’t work. Just says “No Music Heard.” Decided to double check to see if it was a hardware problem and downloaded Shazam and tested them side by side and NOPE, it’s not a hardware issue, Shazam identified 10 out of 10 songs, SoundHound just says “No Music Heard.”

by Donald-t

Well to be fair I haven’t tried this version but after I do I’ll check back and give my opinion of it I feel I’m entitled to that having been in a paid customer for years.I concur with many uses opinion you’ve taken out plenty of the features that made SoundHoundMusicDiscovery so enjoyable and turned it into a pile of junk. I never use it anymore once in a while when there’s an update try it just for old time sake, SoundHoundMusicDiscovery was so good I can almost cry at what you’ve done to it! Understand you want to keep making money and this is one way to do that but to me it’s a sellout.

by Deacon Blues 70

Sometimes we just want lyrics and that doesn’t require your app to override my Bluetooth to listen to my external phone speakers in order to figure out what song I’m listening too. So if you could give us the option to toggle between typing in our music selection or having your app listen in to what songs are floating around, that would be sublime. Seriously... I listen to gangsta rap at work and if I want lyrics without sharing my music with my quiet office, I should be allowed to!!!! Frustrating.

by Emilaus

Used to be great but lately I have had to use Shazam. SoundHound just doesn’t recognize songs, volume not high enough, maybe....it’s just become unreliable. Too bad because I didn’t want to use Shazam.

It’s a 50/50 sometimes too late to grab song because it takes long to open then this crap about flipping through juke box and 8 tracks....while searching isn’t cute to me. App takes to long to open.

I would highly recommend try b4 u buy. I used to try SoundHound first but lately I just go straight to Shazam.

by Joanne613

It used to be a 5-star app for me. I’ve been usinqyears without issue, but for about a year, opening SoundHoundMusicDiscovery and letting it auto-listen results in, well, no result. I have to stop the “listening/searching” function, wait 2-3 seconds, and then restart the listening, at which point it finds a title very quickly. But not helpful if I’m at a stoplight and in handsfree mode! Why do I have to send through the request *twice* every single time?!?

by Wazman64

I sure do miss the old functionality removed from SoundHound.

When I search a song, of course the first thing I want to know is what is it called and who is it by. Thats obviously there in every music ID app. I want to know about the song because I like it and its new to me.

Next I want to know what album its from. SoundHound USED to list all the places that song was released (all the albums, etc). REALLY useful when trying to buy it.

Also, I want to hear other music by that musician. SoundHound USED to show that—a nice list sorted by album.

SoundHound is not fast compared to the other “well known” music id app. In fact, it has a fairly regular problem of not even being able to “hear” the music in the room for some reason. You have to reboot to fix (if that fixes it at all). It keeps asking if u are “humming”. Nope—but the music is loud in the background and the “other” app hears it. Hasnt been fixed for a LONG time and is irritating because often the clip you are scanning is over before u can try again.

Live lyrics to sing along with used to be a big bonus feature only found here. Now lots do it.

I guess what I’m feeling is that unfortunately SoundHound is pretty much like every other app now—just orange colored instead of blue—so why wouldnt I pick the fastest, most reliable one?

Go back to being feature rich. Its why I paid for the full version originally

by MyShirtIsBlue

Most of the time it can get the current hits and well known oldies. I like a lot of non-current, non contemporary music. I like a lot of indie music. SoundHound has a difficult time with that type of music. It also has some difficulty with sound bytes of music that have been remixed. The remixes are better than the originals. Yeah, SoundHound has a hard time with the remixes. Still, not bad, better than many of the others which try to do the same thing

by Rossmky

The map feature was set SoundHoundMusicDiscovery apart from Shazam. I loved being able to pull up where I heard a song or to see what locations I visited that played great music. Sometimes it was just fun to make that connection between the place and the music you heard there. I noticed over the years that the location info was harder and harder to find like it was being phased out. Please bring this back!

by Matisse In Beverly Hills

UPDATE (November 20, 2018): What happened to landscape mode? I don’t like using Soundhound in portrait mode at all. Especially on an iPad. Please put the feature back. I’m docking SoundHoundMusicDiscovery 1 star but will dock more if landscape mode but will consider docking more if the doesn’t rotate at a later date.

(Old Review) I was hesitant at updating to the current version with all the negative reviews but I backed up my iPad 2 (iOS 5.1.1) and also kept a copy of the SoundHound version 5.0 app stored as a backup and updated SoundHoundMusicDiscovery .

I can say, with a pleasure, that it still recognizes songs that are popular and those are less. There are songs that are not going to be recognized because they are not yet added to SoundHound's database. You can submit those to the support team. It's not a 100% guarantee that you're going to find out a song that's obscure.

by BAR112

2020 Update: Love its ability to save song clips when I’m out and about and allow me to look up later. Then I can save the song/artist to my favorites list for future reference. Only one thing: it’s now in portrait-mode only; please make it in landscape mode also for iPad use! That said, best of its kind and highly recommended.

by Nikothegreat

It must be over 10 years now I’ve used SoundHoundMusicDiscovery. I have nothing but good things to say. It’s been a very seldom time over the years that it didn’t pull up the song I was listening too, no matter how obscure. Did you ever find yourself hearing a song in a crowded place that brought back old memories but you never really knew who played it? SoundHoundMusicDiscovery has your back. Did you hear a song on a random tv show and really like it but never heard it before but you’d like to hear it again? SoundHoundMusicDiscovery will save it. And you can go over all of those saves at any point no matter how long ago you saved them. It’s like having an ongoing source recording the music score of your life documentary.

by WishIWereWise

I can always depend on SoundHound to identify the song I hear playing, even in some very noisy environments when I don’t think it’ll have a chance. And I LOVE the improvement they made in a recent release that loads SoundHoundMusicDiscovery much faster and let’s it start working right away so I don’t risk missing identifying the song that’s playing even if it’s near the end. Thanks!

by BB-Ex

Versatile music utility that adds so much to listening to music. Mostly I use it for identifying tunes and for the amazing scrolling realtime lyrics! But, it's ability to cross between music services and lookup and link other resources about a song or artist I'm interested makes this a go to app for me. Thanks to the developers for years of behind the scenes upgrades and improvements too! This one is worth paying for.

by Wkw47

The older I get, the more I want to remember old songs. Not because they are old, but because there is some phrase, some idea that I want to remember how it was precisely sung. SoundHoundMusicDiscovery has been my ‘go to’ when I need to hear those lyrics and tunes again or identify a new song I want to know. It’s the displayed lyrics that separates SoundHoundMusicDiscovery from others and that it’s always upgraded to keep up with competitive app’s. This one is great and very reliable. Why change?

by JSH:RxM

Love SoundHound but the most recent version gives "no music heard" or "we can't find that one" errors. Delete & reinstall it and it works till you quit then stops again. But hey, all the new Apple Music banner ads run just fine (please get rid of the banners). And unless I'm missing something there's no way to turn off the super-annoying Ok Hound, which pops up at random times. SoundHoundMusicDiscovery is starting to get eroded with crappy decisions. Apple/Shazam will crush you if you don't get it sorted.

by Djzerocool

Falling short. I used to use SoundHoundMusicDiscovery all the time, when one day, I was streaming xm on my phone, heard a song I wanted to remember for later, I go to open the sound hound app and the music stops, ok, I go back to xm, hit play, go back to sound hound and the music stops again. It used to listen or scan what you were listening to and save it in your history.... and suddenly it stopped doing that.

Now, I try to scan a song I’m listening to in my house (my house WiFi is 400mps) and I’m told by I have bad connection... I snap, I do a speed test of my WiFi to get 390 reading.... SoundHoundMusicDiscovery has become garbage. And in the garbage it will go ✌️

by Jaded NewYorker

Ruined with the new update. 8.0.2 Where are the lyrics? I can’t type in what I’m looking for. Voice only? You’re forcing me to speak into my phone. What happens when you’re in a noisy environment? Or want to be respectful of a musician and lock up lyrics? What happens when you’re playing guitar and want to look up lyrics?

Review Update.
Thank you for the 8.1 update & returning the manual search option.