A few weeks ago, I embarked on the mammoth task of organizing my music library. After more than 20 years of accumulating music on my computer, it was high time to do some cleaning up and clean out my database!
It's a long and tedious job and I regularly stumble upon badly named and difficult to identify files. As usual, I told myself that the web must have some solutions to help me find the name and artist of these lost songs!
And it is!
audio tag is a free music recognition service. It allows you to quickly and easily identify almost any unknown piece of music.
Its use is very simple: upload a short audio clip or a whole song (in fact, even a 10-second fragment is enough), let the robot analyze it and provide you with information about the track title, the artist name, the album title…
Your audio file can be in most types of audio file formats and it can be of any quality (recognizable by ear, of course): it can be an MP3 file downloaded from the Internet or a short recording made with your old tape recorder and digitized into a low-quality audio file… AudioTag will do the job.
This utility can also recognize audio directly from YouTube and other video sharing services… or from any link to a file containing audio!
The tool works really well and I managed to identify songs that I didn't know and whose filenames were more than questionable. Indeed, it is based on a sophisticated audio recognition engine that combines a patented audio fingerprinting technology and a database of several million songs.
In general, the tool will offer you a single answer, but it may happen that the algorithm has a doubt and therefore offers you several solutions. No problem, since the results page includes a link to YouTube allowing you to verify that the song corresponds to what you wanted to identify!
In short, AudioTag is a very useful free tool for recognizing old, poorly identified audio files on your computer!
Article updated on January 24, 2021 by Byothe
