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Found a song, artist or album you like?

On pages after a search, tap these icons to:
Hear a 30 second sample of the music when available.
Play any song, album, or list of top songs, right from your iPod - a SoundHound exclusive.
Check out the artist: bio, albums, top songs, photos, and fans on midomi.com.
See the album page: release info, review, track listing and more.
Bookmark any artist, song or album. Then see Bookmarks on your History screen. You can share or buy bookmarked songs later.
Share over email, Facebook, or Twitter. (To edit Twitter or Facebook login details after a share, open your iPhone's Settings app then tap SoundHound.)
Go straight to the song in iTunes. Note: to change the country of your iTunes store, open your iPhone's Settings app and then tap SoundHound.
Instantly see full-screen, official & verified lyrics.
Find lyrics online when regular lyrics are unavailable.
Instantly play a YouTube video - without even leaving SoundHound.
Discover similar artists.
See all albums that have the current song.
Lyrics provided by Gracenote and LyricFind
See Lyrics Terms of Use

See and edit history, and email all your bookmarks

Tap the History icon on the SoundHound home page to see your Searches, Browsed items, and Bookmarks. Note that items you've browsed will appear in a pale blue color.
To email all your bookmarks - including links to iTunes and soundhound.com - tap the Bookmarks tab at the top of the History page, then tap the Email icon.
To delete or reorder items in your search list or bookmarks, tap the Edit button in the upper left of the history page.

Charts

Tap the Charts icon on the SoundHound home page to see the hottest songs overall, songs just grabbed by other users, and SoundHound's exclusive Underrated chart: a list of songs getting grabbed much more on SoundHound than they are played on the radio.
Lists of songs and artists show popularity with these bars - look for them everywhere in the app!
On the What's Hot page, check out how songs are trending: flames for heating up, ice for cooling off.

Now Playing

Tap the Now Playing icon on the SoundHound home page to see your iPod's current song. SoundHound automatically fetches and displays lyrics if they are available!
You can instantly check out all the great SoundHound info about this song in just one tap.
Want to play another track from your iPod right inside SoundHound? Just tap Library and select a song.

About SoundHound LiveLyrics

Available for hundreds of thousands of tracks, LiveLyrics shows lyrics right in time with the music when you tap the big orange button or play an iPod song. Tips: For your iPod songs, double tap any lyrics line to fast forward or rewind right there. You can scroll lyrics around during a song. Just tap the mini box icon in the lower left corner to return to the LiveLyrics box. To hide the LiveLyrics box, tap the "x" in its lower left corner. Tap the miniature LiveLyrics box icon to bring it back on screen. To re-match LiveLyrics in music recognition, just tap this button. LiveLyrics FAQs:
What is the spinning icon on the Lyrics and Now Playing pages?

That shows you that SoundHound is sending audio to match for LiveLyrics.

Sometimes LiveLyrics seem a bit off. What causes that?

Although LiveLyrics is very accurate, system settings prevent certain iPod songs with variable bit rate encoding (VBR, not found in iTunes purchases) from being completely aligned. Also, LiveLyrics may be adjusted during some songs found using music recognition, as new audio is received. If you see a mistake or have any other feedback, please tell us here to help us track it down.

Sometimes, I see a lock icon or an info dot on a Now Playing page. Why?

For your iPod songs, LiveLyrics works by matching audio and your song information. This is only available on iOS 4 or higher for DRM-free tracks, which are the standard in iTunes since early 2009.

How does SoundHound LiveLyrics cover so many songs?

SoundHound has formed partnerships to cover as many lyrics as possible, and built an innovative in-house technology to align them.

About SoundHound

SoundHound is powered by its own Sound2Soundâ„¢ Search Science (S2S).

When you tap the orange button, Sound2Sound springs into action. If you are listening to recorded music, it matches a flexible fingerprint of your sound against a database of recorded music, giving you the fastest, most accurate result possible, even for popular remixes. If you are singing or humming, Sound2Sound knows to match your melody and rhythm with the millions of user recordings on midomi.com. The matching technology is flexible, working for any key or tempo. It also takes advantage of lyrics if your search included words.

When you tap the say search button, Sound2Sound uses a compact, flexible representation of your voice that can be instantly matched against phonetic versions of song and artist names. Sound2Sound is also included in SoundHound's text search, where its ability to understand pronunciation allows it to give correct results for misspelled searches.