Name That Tune!

If you are anything like me with the music (who knows very little about), you will appreciate the convenience of being able to know what song is being played on the radio at all times, that is, if you are listening on your Mac or PC.

Name that tune with Tunatic

Tunatic is a tiny software that is capable of identifying pretty much any modern song within seconds of listening to it. It analyzes the music that’s being played, compare the data with a server and fetches the name of the song and the artist. The downside of this software is that it relies on the speaker of the computer (I guess that can be the upside if you are listening to the conventional radio). That means if you speak when it samples the music, it will take your voice into consideration… not good.

All in all, this little app has been able to identify most of the music I threw at it (nothing fancy though; it failed to identify non-English songs as well as Jazz). Another application the company makes is Tunalyzer, which is an app that sits in the background and analyzes everything in your music folder and sends the meta data back to the database that Tunatic uses. The idea is to sample as much music as possible with the right tags that people give to their music.