Audiggle

If you're the kind of person who loves music and is always curious about what's playing, then you absolutely need to check out Audiggle. It’s a super lightweight audio recognition app that packs a surprising punch with its features.

With just one click, Audiggle can tell you the name of the song and the artist, no matter where the audio is coming from. It doesn’t even have to be a high quality recording maybe it’s a track from a DVD movie scene, background music in a YouTube video, or even a tune playing on an internet radio station. Audiggle handles it all.

So how does it work? The app takes a quick sample of whatever audio is playing through your computer, compares it to a massive online database of music clips, and then serves up the details almost instantly. It’s like having a music detective right at your fingertips.

You can use Audiggle in all sorts of situations like when you’re watching a DVD, streaming a show online, listening to internet radio, or even trying to identify a mislabeled track in your music library. While it performs best with clear, high quality audio, it’s impressively stubborn and can often pick out background music from TV scenes or low quality sources.

One of the coolest things about Audiggle is how little system resources it uses. It runs quietly in the background without slowing down your computer. Plus, it recognizes music from all over the world in multiple languages. And it doesn’t stop there you can pull up song lyrics, get download links for iTunes and Amazon, and even find out if that new band you just identified is playing a gig near you. Honestly, what more could you ask for from a music discovery tool?