Cortana's Music Recognition Is Superior

[Azurus]

I'm really impressed with cortana's music recognition I put it head to head with Shazam which is supposed to be the most famous app for music recognition along with SoundHound. It took shazam a couple of trials to recognize the song. I played the same clip from the song and Cortana recognized it at once.
Hats off to Microsoft for that.

 

[Jazmac]

Cortana IS great at music recognition but give me a minute to screen shot your post. I have never seen a post from you in praise of anything in 8.1.
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[Azurus]

Cortana IS great at music recognition but give me a minute to screen shot your post. I have never seen a post from you in praise of anything in 8.1.
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Hahahahahaha wow someone is paying attention to my posts
That's the thing I don't hate 8.1 , I just want it to be better you know ?

 

[Jazmac]

Hahahahahaha wow someone is paying attention to my posts
That's the thing I don't hate 8.1 , I just want it to be better you know ?

I'm probably on here too much when I start to notice stuff like this. lol.

 

[KarateDad]

But how can you see a history of the songs you've had it search for? I was traveling this week, and heard several songs on the radio I wanted to pick up when I wasn't driving. But now I don't know how to see the history....Anyone know

 

[JHunsaker]

What is amazing to me is how fast it can figure out which song is playing and it can figure out songs that don't even have words.

 

[wimvanp1]

But how can you see a history of the songs you've had it search for? I was traveling this week, and heard several songs on the radio I wanted to pick up when I wasn't driving. But now I don't know how to see the history....Anyone know

You can see your music history by clicking on the notebook symbol in the upper right corner. There's an option ' music searches' with your history!

 

[drbanks]

Not only is Cortana/Bing good at IDing music, it can be fantastic at IDing classical music.

I have had it (multiple times) correctly identify the specific album, even when the artist/orchestra/label are hopelessly obscure.

 

[smoledman]

It actually works only with songs that are in the XBox Music library, while Shazam will recognize any song in existence.

 

[anon(5445874)]

I only use cortana/bing music search. But I've seen other apps recognize live songs, which I don't believe they added yet. I know it wasn't in the bing version.

 

[adrian1338]

It actually works only with songs that are in the XBox Music library, while Shazam will recognize any song in existence.

I pretty much doubt that shazzam will recognize a song not provided by an underlying database. how do you actually think stuff like this is working? magic?