How to Reverse Search Audio? Here’s A Complete Guide

Is there a reverse audio search tool? Yes, there are some tools that can reverse search audio or music files such as Shazam, Picard, Music Match, and Cortana. In this post, I’ll discuss about how to reverse audio search and offer you the 3 audio search engines.

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You can reverse search images and videos. Therefore, you can also use reverse sound search tools to reverse search audio files. Now, let’s take a look at how to do reverse audio search. (To apply reverse effects to video or audio, try MiniTool MovieMaker.)

How to Reverse Audio Search

#1. Shazam

Shazam is a music identifier app that can identify music by sound. To reverse search audio using Shazam, open the Shazam app and tap the Shazam button. Then play the unknown audio file and the Shazam app will begin identifying what’s playing around you. After a few seconds, you will see the song title and artist.

#2. Picard

Picard is another reverse audio search tool. It’s cross-platform and available for all major platforms including Windows, macOS, Linux, Haiku, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. Picard lets you identify audio files in MP3, FLAC, OGG, M4A, WMA, WAV, and other formats.

#3. Musixmatch

This app works on Android and iOS that allows you to do reverse music search with one tap. Just tap the Identify Lyrics icon after opening the app, and play the unknown track. When the song is identified, Musixmatch displays the song title and the lyrics.

#4. Cortana for Windows

On Windows 10, you can use Cortana to recognize the song playing around you. To reverse search music, just enable the Cortana tool and ask “What song is this” when playing the target audio file.

Best Audio Search Engines

After knowing how to reverse search audio, here’s a list of three audio search engines for you. With them, you can find your favorite music or audio files.

#1. MP3Juices

MP3Juices is a popular music search engine. Just enter the song title and you will get matching results. Find the right one and download it to your device. No registration is required to download.

Also read: 3 Free Sites to Download Uncopyrighted Music for Your Videos

#2. Internet Archive

Internet Archive provides free public access to millions of music, videos, movies, books, and images. It allows users to upload and download files without limitations. Here you can find a large collection of royalty-free music.

#3. Find Sounds

Find Sounds offers different kinds of sound effects such as ringtone, game sounds, sports sounds, weapon sounds, bird sounds, and more. When you find what you want, just click on it and download the sound effect from the website.

Conclusion

Try the above-mentioned tools to do reverse audio search right now! If they don’t work, you should go to a music forum and post the audio file.

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Zoe

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Zoe works as editor at MiniTool for many years, writing articles about video editing skills. She has published hundreds of articles about video editing, video conversion, video downloading, audio editing and photo editing. She also writes some articles about YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. During her spare time, Zoe loves reading, traveling, skating, watching movies, musicals and plays. Her favorite musicals include The Phantom of the Opera, Hamilton and Le Rouge et le Noir.