Rhapsody SongMatch gives Shazam a run for its money

Has this ever happened to you? You're in a mall or restaurant and suddenly you hear a song that's so catchy that you immediately want to know what it is, who sings it, how you can get it. (By the way, this experience never happens in an elevator). Of course today, there are a few apps like Shazam that enable you to get song identification in a few seconds. But what then? How do you listen to the track again or (gasp) purchase it?

Well, now there's a new app for Android users (put yo hands up for us 'droiders!) that makes this as easy as possible.

 

The digital music service Rhapsody has just introduced Rhapsody SongMatch and if you're thinking this will be a formidable rival to the extremely popular song matching services Shazam and Soundhound, well, then, you would be correct.

Like the other services, SongMatch is a free app that lets you identify songs, but how you proceed from there is quite different. For Rhapsody subscribers (two week free trial, then 10 bucks a month), you can then listen and download full tracks of the songs you suddenly love, or even get albums, artists catalogs or discover artists with a similar sound.

One nice added perk is that the matched songs are automatically stored in a playlist so that you can come back and rediscover the magic on any of your devices. If you don't want to subscribe to Rhapsody, the SongMatch app is still available and still free so you can identify the songs that will give you a wicked case of earworm later, but the playback is disabled.

And just to let you know, I compared the SongMatch and Shazam apps and more than once, the SongMatch was able to identify a song while the Shazam responded, "Not enough information." And one was a Bruce Springsteen song that my 7-year old could have identified. Who's the Boss now? -Shari

Get the Rhapsody SongMatch app in the Google Play Android Store.

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