SO... I basically just want my smartphone to turn on Shazaam or Mudomi every 3 minutes, identify the song and paste the song title and artist in simple notepad (For all I care). If the song is the same as last time - Ignore.

IS THIS TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR. I WILL PAY SOMEONE TO COME UP WITH THIS APP FOR ME. Please help, I am not a coder/programmer so don't know where to start.

I prefer the way Midomi works: there is no black animation, but it does work better and has more features.

The Midomo "Sing it" feature is really funny: try it with your friends (humming works better than singing seemingly) to share a nice moment.

For songs that are in their databases, both Shazam and Midomi do a good job of "hearing" and identifying songs, even in less than ideal conditions (public places with background noise, bad radio reception--I even identified one song over a shortwave radio!)

Both apps do a good job on identifying current popular (rock, r&b, c&w, rap, etc.) music on the radio. Older songs (say, over 20 years old) are more likely to be identified if they match one or more of the following criteria:

• English language (more on foreign language in a moment)
• American or British.
• Well known (e.g. Beatles, Elvis, etc. probably have all their songs in the databases, but less well known artists might not)
• On Billboard or other music chart. "Deep album cuts" might not make it.
• Secular (coverage of older gospel/CCM is hit or miss at best)

Coverage of British pop is good (especially on Shazam, which is based in England). On the other hand, I had a few Canadian songs which neither service could identify.

Foreign language coverage varies. French (but not French-Canadian) and German are probably best, with Spanish a distant third, at least for songs from Spain. (Neither seemed to know much about Latin pop music from Mexico, or South America).

Shazam, in particular seemed to be very knowledgable about Chinese and Japanese pop music. I even identified a Japanese song that I had taped off the radio 20 years ago. However, other Asian music, such as Vietnamese pop, baffled it.

Neither is too "cultured", as the services didn't seem to know too much about classical music or jazz. Shazam did recognize some non-music material, such as a couple of Bill Cosby comedy bits....

The main screen of Babyphone shows the current status, the microphone sensitivity and the threshold for triggering the alarm.

If the Microphone's display reaches or exceeds the set threshold, the previously defined phone number will be called. After completion of the call and the expiration of the delay Babyphone will reactivate itself again.

In the settings you can enter the number to call. In addition, there is a sleeping interval with an adjustable delay in minutes, after which Babyphone will reactivate itself again.

The new version of midomi is also better at identifying original music (it was not before but now it is) I tested both midomi and shazam in noisy environments and midomi was successful even when the noise was loud and music was far away. Shazam failed miserably. Also I have heard that shazam is going to charge although I am not sure if that is true or now (might be a rumor).

I think midomi should redesign its UI to be faster to start the search. With that change there is no reason to keep both apps.

Most of the songs I like can't be hummed but I still hang on to midomi in those rare cases where a lyric search on google doesn't work.

Shazam has consistantly worked for me whereas Midomi can't find half the things I listen to.

Totally agree. Shazam can identify playing music only. Midomi has exactly the same feature. However Midomi has a better UI design and gives you more options:it also allows you to search for songs by singing, saying, and typing. I also found midomi is catching up in identifying playing music, at least as accurate as shazam now. this is amazing. you know shazam is a pioneer in this area and it was still "more accurate" only a couple of months ago when i first compared the two applications.

Right now I'm using Midomi. It always identifies the music only after the second 'grabbing'. And as someone has already mentioned its slow. I used to use the another software from gracenotes in my ld Sony Ericsson which was faster.

Shazam, I'm waiting for you to get your visa to land in India.

this is a good review of their interfaces, but i'd have liked some more info about each program's speed and accuracy. generally i find shazam pretty accurate with a fugly but usable interface, and midomi variably accurate with a nicer but slightly tap-heavy interface.

The singins search is great and I can use it anytime and show it off to my friends. You can only use shazam when a song is playing on the radio. Try singing into Shazam and you get disappointed.

The grab feature of midomi also works better than Shazam.

The singing/humming feature in Midomi was kinda neat...when it worked. It seemed to work well when I first got the software. Then, after an update, it rarely ever was able to identify what I was humming. I don't think it was me that got worse.

The phrase 'tag now' in Shazam kinda doesn't fit...it's always has rubbed me the wrong way....but I much prefer the black screens in Shazam to the white in midomi.

But...you can't really go wrong with either.