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MusicID with LyricsCurrent Version: 1.1.2

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Hold MusicID up to music* and we'll tell you the song in seconds! Featuring search, iPod integration, lyrics and more!

★★★ 2010 Mobile Merit Award Winner ★★★

MusicID is the slickest way to identify any song you hear on the radio, at the movies, at the club, at the grocery store, or anywhere!

♫ #1 legal lyrics database on the App Store! ♫

Tapping the largest music metadata collection and lyrics database in the world. MusicID has licensing to display legal, high-quality lyrics so they’ll never go away like some other apps!

MusicID is "in many ways, much better."
- The New York Times' Bob Tedeschi

"It works better than it’s better-known competitor, Shazam Encore..."
MusicID is "one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen."
-Incredible iPhone Apps For Dummies’ Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus

"MusicID is the app that I’ve always wished Shazam would be."
- ifones.com

"It’s already replaced two apps on my iPhone (Shazam and Lyrics+)."
- iphoneappreviews.net

"MusicID blows away the other two competitors...with both its dazzling interface as well as its ton of unrivaled features."
- smokingapples.com

KEY FEATURES
♫ Identifies audible music fast!
♫ Displays song lyrics, artist biographies, and related YouTube videos.
♫ iPod Integration (Add songs from your library or view the song currently playing on your iPod).
♫ Search for songs by Title, Artist Name, or Lyric Phrase (with lyric previews)!

★★ Works on Edge, 3G or WIFI ★★

✖✖✖✖ iPOD TOUCH OWNERS ✖✖✖✖
*The iPod touch does not have a built-in microphone. In order to use the music identification feature, simply plug in a compatible headset/microphone into a 2nd generation iPod touch.☢iPOD TOUCH 1ST GENERATION ARE NOT COMPATIBLE☢
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MusicID with Lyrics Review

App delivers for finding lyrics, identifying songs

by Brian Beam, Macworld.com

Ever on the lookout for the “perfect” song lyrics app, my most recent search led me to MusicID With Lyrics by Gravity Mobile.


Behind the Music: MusicID With Lyrics not only works with songs you’ve stored on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad; it also identifies songs playing externally, providing lyrics, artist info, and other data.

Not only can the $1 app work with songs that are synched onto your iPhone, iPad or second-generation iPod touch, MusicID can also identify songs that are playing externally and provide lyrics, artist info, purchase links, and the like. There are four key criteria that I think are important for apps of this nature:

Listening accuracy: MusicID did quite well in picking up the songs in a variety of environments. I particularly liked the spacey graphic effects it displays when listening and searching for songs.

Lyrics Quality: Again, the app did well in grabbing lyrics to songs; even some of the less-main-stream tracks in my collection. However, it did return the wrong song lyrics a few times.

Breadth of Info: The app provides quite a bit of info beyond lyrics, including links to iTunes, YouTube videos, artists biography and a list of similar songs.

Sharing: This is MusicID’s biggest weakness. Almost every app in the app store will let you post to Twitter and Facebook, but MusicID only lets you share your discoveries with your friends via e-mail. I think it’s important to note that, rather than sending via your own e-mail account, MusicID appears to route all your messages through the developer’s servers, which could give the developer access to your friends’ e-mail addresses. In order to protect your friends’ privacy, I would skip this feature altogether.

All in all, I like MusicID, primarily due to its ability to listen to music rather than simply link to your own music library. It compares quite favorably with similar apps such as Shazam Encore and SoundHound, and is a compelling alternative at only $1.

[Brian Beam is a musician, Robin Trower fan and partner with BOLD Internet Solutions, living somewhere near Kansas City.]

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Great Music App

Initially I loved this app and had yet to get any music that it didn't know. Over the course of the past few months, however, I have found that the ID rate for correct the first time is about 85 - 90%. There are some obscure things that it doesn't get and I had a hard time identifying songs off my husband's laptop...even more mainstream ones. I love the interface and the fact that you can get lyrics, a link to the song, similar artists and even geolocation whose necessity is a bit of a mystery to me. There is room for improvement which is why it gets 4 stars overall from me. 1. bigger ID button 2. less sensitivity to bass (will give odd results in the presence of subs) 3. change color schemes to suit 4. sample of the song to access once ID'd...this is for making sure it's the right tune in the absence of lyrics or reminding you what it sounded like once it's been in your list for a while.

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