- Shazam: Shazam offers revolutionary song-identification technology for a range of smart devices. The company’s apps can “listen” to a song to identify its “audio fingerprint,” and then match the fingerprint to a database of several million songs. The user is provided with full track information, including artist name, song title, album, link to download the song or watch the video, and more.
- TuneFind: Whereas Shazam can analyze music on the radio, in commercials, at stores, and beyond, TuneFind only allows users to locate the titles of songs used in TV shows and movies. To find songs, users must search the database on TuneFind.com. The benefit of using TuneFind is that your hunt for a song doesn’t have to be in real-time, which is how Shazam’s “listening” feature works.
- AdTunes: Love a song in the new iPhone commercial but can’t figure out who the artist is? AdTunes is a forum-based site listing commonly heard songs from commercials, movie trailers, and more. Users can locate their favorite songs by posting questions to a robust community of music lovers. Forums are organized by source to make it easy to tell if another user already asked about the song that’s been stuck in your head for days.
How to Find Your Favorite Songs from TV
If you’ve struggled in the past to find the name of a song on your favorite episode of Scandal, or asked everyone you know to identify the artist singing in Verizon’s latest spot, you can now rest easy. These days, there are many resources available to find out the details of your favorite songs from TV: