Google Launches Sound Search For Android

The widget, which can be installed on an Android device's house secrete can identify and eternal purchase a fragment of music being played on the radio, in a store or on the street. 

Available to download from the Google Play store, the widget works with Android devices running versions 4.0 and above and is currently marginal to the US market.

According to a post on the official Android blog "Sometimes, you hear a tune you dote while you're out and about but don't craving to download it prerogative at that minute. The Sound Search widget syncs across all of your devices, so that tune you recognized with your phone in the coffee shop can be speedily purchased from your tablet at home."

As well as being competent to install the feature on a smartphone or tablet's home hide, users lucky enough to have a device that runs Jellybean 4.2, the latest version of Android, can install it on the lock cache, making access to the service equable easier.

And while Sound Search may benefit from seamless operating style integration and from being a free-to-download app, it is by no means the only or best music recognition app upon the market for either Android or iPhone users.

Shazam, which started life as an SMS service -- a user would call a number, retain their feature phone up to a speaker and then receive a text message identifying the song in inquire, is now a fully fledged free app that can identify a trail, stream its lyrics and steady poinit you in the direction of where it is available to download for free.

Meanwhile, SoundHound has long been one of the most popular Android apps for music recognition, and while it comes at a order ($5.99) it is limitless able of identifying a song from someone humming it or attempting to sing it.