Reviews for SoundHound – Music Discovery

I've used this app on and off for 5 years and the usage has been tumultuous to say the least. Song recognition would NEVER work the first time I used it, it would always take two tries to recognize songs. Further it would only be able to recognize about 60% of the songs (mostly popular songs), no covers or smaller indie bands (which would be REALLY useful). Pros: mostly the auto lyrics is a fun gimmick but ultimately unnecessary. The album and artist info was also useful too.

What in the world is going on?! I'm not going to say I used to love this app; I still do! BUT, rough patch!! The ability to identify songs is back for me. The history is still good to go. I add every song to a playlist on Spotify so I can keep listening and it won't let me log into Spotify. This feature had me sprung! On a pixel 8, so hardware and software shouldn't be an issue. This app is cool; totally would pay for a premium if reasonably priced. Never liked shazam; please fix this.

Massive loss of features. I used to use the History section of the app to listen to a mix of music I've liked. I was able to go full screen on videos, mix the playlist, skip to the next song, etc. Now, it just opens the video in a small screen with the option to pause/play the video. This used to be a 5 star app, but the changes they've made on the last couple of updates have made it horrible. I no longer use this app for playing music, only for identifying unknown songs.

Soundhound used to be awesome. It would detect songs quickly, with minimal effort, wherever you were. Recently, I have been noticing that even in the car, putting the phone next to the speaker, at high volume, it gives you the "We Couldn't Find This One". I understand a few times, but not every single time. It sucks because I loved this app and was amazed that even in a loud bar, like Flanigan's, it use to be able to detect the song within seconds.

I have used SoundHound forever and never had a major issue. Lately, however, it doesn't find ANYTHING....I did a side by side comparison with a known song (Bangarang by Skrillex). SoundHound couldn't find it; Shazam found it in less than a second. a second test (Killshot by Eminem) produced identical results. One star for now until the issue is fixed.

So I have the same issue as others of songs not being found. I suspect it's the video ads they play during song detection. despite the ad being muted I think the app is picking up the audio(or lack there of) from the video ad and ignoring the phones microphone input. it works when the ad isn't a video one. too bad you can't close the ad a the x for the ads are fake. going to find an alternative app now.

I've used this app for years, probably going on 8-9 years of using this app exclusively for music recognition. The past several months It hasn't been able to recognize any songs, even more popular songs. I can have my phone right next to the speaker and the volume turned way up and it still will act like it didn't hear a thing. I have had issues like this in the past but normally could retry it and it would work, but now it doesn't work at all. Extremely disappointed in this app.

Something Went Wrong Something Else Matters. I was trying to identify the artist playing a piano version of Nothing Else Matters, but this app failed with multiple trys. I even raised the volume up on my stereo, it was loud enough that the neighbors could hear - 5 acres over our forested property. It kept saying, "Is something playing?" I switched over to Shazam, and it took less than a second. This used to be my goto app to identify music, now it appears to be of no matter.

This app used to be great, but it's gotten bloated and bogged down with non-optional extras, and now the damn thing is sending push notifications with no option to turn them off at the app level. Updated 9/7/25: The app no longer works at all. It hasn't ID'd a song in months. And it looks like it's becoming just another LLM company? Negative ten stars, honestly. Useless app

Every song now plays 30 sec previews even when my option clearly has full length checked. What happened to the full length playback? Update came through 4.30.25. Now some albums cause the app to close when you try to open and play. And on most that start playing one or two songs stop at any point of the song and the app crashes. What a disappointment this app has become. Songs that played in full the past are reduced to 30sec even though full version setting is the default playback mode.