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The Pixel’s background song recognition feature has not been updated in ages, but Google is now getting ready to “Enhance Now Playing.” About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these files (called APKs, in the case of Android apps), we’re able to see various lines of code within that hint at possible future features. Keep in mind that Google may or may not ever ship these features, and our interpretation of what they are may be imperfect. We’ll try to enable those that are closer to being finished, however, to show you how they’ll look in case that they do ship. With that in mind, read on.V.13 of Android System Intelligence for the Pixel 9 details “Enhance Now Playing”: The “Show search button on lock screen” setting has been updated to “Enhance Now Playing” and now also uses Google services to add album artwork to songs.Currently, the Now Playing list uses a generic music note icon next to the song name and artist. It’s unclear if artwork will be added to your entire history or just new discoveries going forward. Meanwhile, Now Playing’s cloud search capability going forward will use “Google Search to identify songs not recognized by your device.” Song Search, which recently got a Quick Settings Tile and new app shortcut icon, in the Google app offers features like “Hum to Search” and should be the company’s latest song recognition technology.Google explains how:Now Playing recognizes music using a song database stored on your device. To protect your privacy, the automatic recognition process never sends audio or background conversations to Google. Now Playing uses privacy-preserving analytics.If you turn on “Enhance Now Playing”, Google receives a short, digital audio fingerprint to identify what’s playing.Because Now Playing is protected by Android’s Private Compute Core, it does not show a mic indicator and will not appear on your Privacy dashboard.This new “Enhance Song Search” preference is not yet live in Settings app > Sound & vibration > Now Playing. There is a server-side component to this rollout.What’s live with today with V.13 of ASI is how Google renamed the app shortcut from “Now Playing history” to just “Now Playing.” As such, the “…” has been removed for a cleaner look. (Like other app shortcuts, there’s still no Themed icon.) Finally, the square for artwork features more rounded corners.Thanks to JEB Decompiler, from which some APK Insight teardowns benefit. Add 9to5Google to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.

READ MORE:The best music streaming apps of 2018Apple’s Shazam acquisition prompts E.U. investigationThe best music player for Android2) GeniusA dark horse in the song identifier app space, Genius is a very good app for figuring out unknown music. The interface is a bit more cluttered than Shazam’s, and it focuses less on music recognition than song lyrics, but it did a reasonably good job of identifying tracks nonetheless. Genius is among the most popular websites for song lyrics, so it’s no surprise they’re the first thing that pops up. From there, you have the option to watch the song’s music video and see a tracklist of the album it’s on. Genius is more sparse than its competitors, but if you like reading lyrics, we strongly recommend it.3) SoundhoundShazam’s biggest rival over the years has been the song identifier app Soundhound. It includes a lot of the same features as Shazam, like its integration with Amazon Music and Spotify. Some people swear by the underdog, but we didn’t find it to be any more accurate or feature-packed to warrant a glowing recommendation compared to the others. While we prefer the main page of Shazam, the song details are better presented in Soundhound, where users can scroll through a single page to see more about the artist, their top songs, and music videos. Founded in 2005, Soundhound has focused in recent years on its Hound voice assistant, which uses artificial intelligence and voice recognition to answer questions. Soundhound believes it can compete against Alexa or the Google Assistant.READ MORE: How much does Spotify Premium cost?The best Spotify playlistsHow to download Spotify songs in secondsHow much data does Spotify use?4) Google AssistantOK, it’s technically not a standalone app on Android, but the Google Assistant is free and works really well as a song identifier. It took about eight seconds to identify music, making it among the quickest on this list. It’s also the newest, having been released in 2017, years after the others.If you’re an iOS user, you can still use it, but you’ll have to download the Google Assistant app first. If you’re on Android, everything is already set up for you. Just press the microphone icon in a Google search or say “OK, Google” to launch the Google Assistant. Then tell it to “listen/recognize/identify this song” and it’ll start doing its thing. The assistant won’t offer you as many fancy features as the other apps, but you’ll have quick access to YouTube, Play Music, and Search. When it identifies a song, it includes the artist, album, lyrics, release date, and genre.5) AHA MusicAnother great option for quickly identifying the name of a song is AHA Music. The service can be accessed

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For those times when you just can't remember what a song is called... Dollar Gill/Unsplash Ever had a song stuck in your head, but haven’t been able to identify it? Of course you have. It could be a hook or a lyric snippet you’re thinking about, but you just can’t name the song or the artist. This common predicament can lead to hours or even days of frustration, with the answer always just out of reach as the cogs in your brain whirr and grind. Well, tech is here to help: The song recognition tools that have been developed over recent years are able to match up patterns of music and lyrics. You might be surprised at the quality of the results that turn up with very little information.A lot of the tools we’re covering here do dual duty—they can recognize songs that you hum or sing part of, and they can also name tracks if the official recordings are being played within range. We’re focusing on the first job here, but you might find the other music recognition features useful too.Google Assistant and Siri Google Assistant will try its best to identify a song for you. Credit: David Nield You can load up your favorite digital assistant on your phone or tablet and have it try and identify a song for you. Just load up Google Assistant or Siri, ask “What’s this song?” and try singing or humming a part of it, or saying some of the lyrics.Google Assistant or Siri will then do their best to find a match. In our testing, Google Assistant is more adept at identifying songs from fragments, whereas Siri tends to need a lyric line or two. Of course part of the success rate is going to be down to the quality of your singing or humming.Both these digital assistants do well at music identification when you’ve actually got the song itself playing—though most of the time that you’re playing a track, you’ll know what it is, unless it’s in the background of a film or show, or it’s being played in public.Shazam and SoundHound We’ve managed to get SoundHound to recognize tracks from our humming. Credit: David Nield These are the two leading apps when it comes to identifying music: You can pick up Shazam for Android and iOS, and SoundHound for Android and iOS. As you probably know, these apps are adept at identifying songs playing around you, but they’re also able to pull up artist and track name info from audio fragments.Both apps put music discovery front and center, and all you need to do is tap the big Shazam or SoundHound button on the app’s main screen to get

Music is all around us, and if you happen to hear a tune that you like—in an advert, a film, or a prestige television show—then you’re going to want to know what it is. Or perhaps you’ve got something stuck in your head that you need a title for. Thanks to the magic of the digital devices at our fingertips, getting an answer shouldn’t be too difficult. Apps to find out what song you just heard There are numerous apps to choose from if you need to identify a piece of music, and they can often get a match in just a few seconds—even if there’s some dialog or other sounds playing over the top. You might want to have a couple of options on hand for those times when you need this kind of service. Google Pixel phones are very good at this, thanks to the Now Playing lock screen widget that they come with. From Settings, pick Sound and vibration and Now Playing. Turn on the Identify songs playing nearby toggle switch and the lock screen will show matches for songs that your phone can hear. Enable Show search button on the lock screen to get a manual search option too, and Now Playing history to keep a log of identified songs. The Now Playing history on Pixel phones. Screenshot: Now Playing Over on iOS, Shazam is now built in, as Apple owns it: Open the Control Center with a drag down from the top right corner of the screen, then tap the Shazam button when you need song recognition. If you can’t see the button, choose Control Center from Settings and add Music Recognition. Shazam is also available as a separate app for Android. Another capable song identification app is SoundHound, which is free to download and install for Android and iOS: Finding the name and artist for a song is as simple as tapping the big button on the Search tab, and you can even sing or hum the tune if you like. You can also get help from Google Assistant or Siri, simply by saying