Identify songs in YouTube videos Online

You have just finished watching a video on YouTube and really liked the song that was playing in that video. Unfortunately, you couldn’t recognize the name of the song and the video description too has no information about the track.

What’s that song in the YouTube Video?

Here are some tricks to help you find the name of a song that’s used in a YouTube video:

Option #1 - Some videos on YouTube include background music from YouTube’s Audio Swap Library and it is relatively easy to determine the audio track in such cases. Here’s how.

While you are on a YouTube video page, click the video statistics button (available below the video player) and you will see detailed information about the song including the name of the artist and the album. This trick will only work for videos that are using music from the Audio Swap Library.

Option #2 - If a YouTube video includes a popular sound track, you can use a music identification services to figure out the name of that song. These services can identify instrumental music as well.

First install Shazam on your mobile phone, launch the app, play the YouTube video on your desktop and bring the phone near the computer speaker. Alternatively, if these apps aren’t available for your mobile phone, you can use Midoni  on the desktop computer to identify the YouTube music.

Option #3 - Twitter can also help you in your research.

Put the YouTube video ID (not the video URL) in the Twitter Search box and you’ll see a list of all tweets that mention that video. Maybe some of these tweets will have more information about the video or you can consider contacting the people who shared that video on Twitter for clues. This is a good option when you are trying to research foreign music.

I recommend searching Twitter for YouTube Video IDs instead of URLs as people may use different URLs in tweets but the ID in the URL will always be the same.

Option #4 - If you can understand the lyrics of the music video, transcribe the first few lines and put them in Google. Obvious solution but worth including in the list.

Option #5 - For popular YouTube videos, you may even find the song name from the comments section itself because there could be other people who are just as curious as you to learn more about that song.

Here’s the trick. While you are on a YouTube page, click the “All Comments” link and set the sort order “by thread” - now press Ctrl+F to open the browser’s Find box and search for keywords like “song,” “music” or even “tune.”

Also see: The Best Chrome Extensions for YouTube

When nothing works, compose a new YouTube Message, put the name of the YouTube user who uploaded the video in the TO box and send him a message with your query. They may get back to you with the name of the song. Good luck!

You may wonder, how can you identify a song or music in a YouTube video?

Sometimes we see a YouTube video and find the songs we like so much that we want to search for the full version, but we don’t know what their names are.

So how do we identify what songs or music are used in a YouTube video? Here are some practical ways to do this.

1. Identify songs online with a browser plugin

If You’re playing a YouTube video with a song on your computer, you can also recognize music through some Chrome plugins.

The AHA Music Identifier, for example, is installed into the browser first. Then open the YouTube video you want to identify and click the plugin icon in the upper right corner while playing the video.

After the recognition is completed, we will see the relevant information about the song in the window. You can click the link above the recognition results to YouTube, Spotify, and other sites to listen to songs.

2. Use music recognition APPs

The background music of some YouTube videos may be pure music, there are no lyrics information. It is impossible to query music information by looking up lyrics.

They all have similar functions, and both require the APP to be installed on the phone first. Then, while the YouTube video is playing, the APP can be turned on to identify it. After the software recognizes the song, it displays detailed information about the music on the phone’s screen.

The song finder can also save a record of songs that you have identified, so you can check it anytime.

3. View the video description

First of all, we can look at the description of the video. It’s the easiest, most direct way.

Some YouTubers would introduce the name of the background music in the description of their videos. So we could get the information right away.

In addition, due to the copyright policy of YouTube, if copyrighted music is used in a YouTube video, it will be automatically identified and tagged with music-related information.

To view this information, click on “show more” in the description section under the video. If the music in the video has been automatically tagged by the system, you can see the relevant information here, including Name, Artist, Album.

4. Search in video comments

If you can’t find the video’s music in the YouTube video description, you can also check the comments below the YouTube video to find out.

Not only one person will care about the music in the YouTube video. Viewers often ask for music information in the comments section of a YouTube video.

Among the viewers of the video, there are likely to be people who are familiar with the music, who often give song information in their responses. You can use “Ctrl+F”(Command + F in mac) to search for words such as lyrics, songs, music.

If you don’t find this information in the comments, and you ask questions in the comments, you will probably get a reply from someone who knows.

5. Google the lyrics or music

Some videos use songs in the background. If there are lyrics in this video, you can put one of them on Google. In this way, you can easily find the corresponding song name or even the music video.

With the name of the song, it’s easy to search for other information.

You can also identify the music by Google voice search. When the music video is playing, tap the mic icon in Google (Web or APP). If it is successfully detected, you will see what the name of the song is.

6. Search on the lyrics search engine

If Google doesn’t have a valid search for lyrics, try searching for lyrics on a professional lyrics search engine. Some of the more esoteric songs are easier to find on these lyrics sites.

we put a lyric into the Findmusicbylyrics, click search will search for detailed song information from multiple lyrics websites.

7. Ask in a professional forum

In addition to the above methods, you can also ask in some special forums or discussion groups on Reddit. For example, Name That Song on the Reddit.

These groups have gathered a large number of music-loving users who know a wide range of songs. If you can’t find information about a song, share the video in a group and ask, usually to get an accurate answer.

The End

These are a number of effective ways to identify songs in YouTube Videos. Sometimes you only need one way to find the music, but sometimes you need to use several methods in combination. With these methods, I believe it is very easy to find out songs in YouTube videos or anywhere else.

If you’re interested in music and lyrics, you might also want to make your own lyrics video. You can easily make cool lyric videos with YouTube Movie Maker.

You can view the lyric video maker page to see how to make a lyric video.

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