Now, Identify Music By Humming Or Recording On YouTube: Here's How

What if you could identify music on YouTube by humming it or recording a few seconds of the song? Google-owned YouTube is currently testing the said feature that works a lot like Shazam. Currently, the test is live on the YouTube Android app.

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Finding music within YouTube app

Once you enable the voice search functionality on the Android YouTube app, you will be able to hum that track or identify it by recording it through the mic. For YouTube to identify the music, the recording needs to be longer than three seconds.

Simply click on the search panel on top of the YouTube app and press the microphone icon, once you give it access to your phone's microphone, you should be able to hum a song or present a song recording to identify it.

This feature would essentially make finding songs easier, especially for users who solely depend on YouTube services for their music streaming needs. YouTube users would be able to jump straight to the video/song after detecting it. For YouTube Premium subscribers, the feature will also lead them directly to the audio.?

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The company's direct rival in this realm would be Shazam, the staple app for song detection. Shazam was acquired by Apple for $400 million in 2018.?

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The YouTube 'hum and find' feature was first revealed in a Google support page this week, where Google explained that the feature is currently in limited beta.

Google said that they're "experimenting with the ability for folks to search for a song on YouTube by humming or recording a song that’s currently being played. If you’re in the experiment, you can toggle from YouTube voice search to the new song search feature, and hum or record the song you’re searching for for 3+ seconds in order for the song to be identified."

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"Once the song is identified, you’ll be sent to relevant official music content, user- generated videos, and/or Shorts featuring the searched song in the YouTube app. This experiment is rolling out to a small percentage of people across the globe who watch YouTube on Android devices."

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