YouTube Music will finally let you look up tracks just by singing into your phone

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Music will finally let you look up tracks just by singing into your phone

It took a little while, but

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Music is, at long last, giving users the ability to search for songs just by singing a tune into a smartphone’s microphone.

The general

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app has had this feature since mid-October 2023, and judging from recently found

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, the version on

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Music functions in the exact same way. In the upper right corner next to the search bar is an audio chart icon. Tapping it activates song search where you then either play, sing, or hum a tune into your device. 

Using the power of artificial intelligence, the app will quickly bring up a track that,

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, matches “the sound to the original recording.” The tool’s accuracy may depend entirely on your karaoke skills. 

Missing details

Because there hasn’t an official announcement yet, there are a lot of missing details. For starters, it’s unknown how long you’re supposed to sing or hum. The original tool required people to enter a three-second input before it could perform a search. Presumably it will take the same amount of time, but without official word from the platform, it’s hard to say with total confidence.

Online reports claim the update is already available on

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Music for iOS. However, 9To5Google states they couldn’t find the feature on either their iPhones or Android devices. Our Android phone didn’t receive the patch either so it’s probably seeing a limited release at the moment. 

We reached out to

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asking if it would like to share official info about

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Music’s song search tool alongside a couple of other questions. More specifically, we wanted to know if the feature is rolling out to everyone, or will it require a

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Music Premium plan? We will update if we get answers. 

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