Reviews for AudD® Music Recognition
AudD® Music Recognition by AudD, LLC
Review by Firefox user 12744283
Rated 3 out of 5
by Firefox user 12744283, 2 years agoIn my previous review, I gave this extension a 1-star rating due to a bug that required a subscription to perform any actions. However, I believe the issue has since been fixed, so I decided to give this extension another try.
According to the addon description, it claims to "Identify any music from any website in your browser." One might assume that this means you can freely identify any song on any page, considering the extension is open-source and the developer has a donation link on the page. Unfortunately, that assumption is incorrect. It does work for free on YouTube and Twitch (and possibly on some other websites), but on any other site, an active subscription to the service is required. Regrettably, the developer failed to disclose this information in the description.
Regarding YouTube song recognition, I attempted to identify songs on lofi girl music streams (both lofi and synthwave radios), but it failed most of the time. This was surprising, given that it was practically the same use case as shown in the demo video.
For standalone songs, the recognition works fairly well. However, when there is someone speaking over the song, such as in let's play videos or on Twtich streams, its reliability significantly decreases, even for popular music. Based on my limited testing, it was able to identify only 2 out of 10 songs in different attempts. That's quite disappointing.
According to the addon description, it claims to "Identify any music from any website in your browser." One might assume that this means you can freely identify any song on any page, considering the extension is open-source and the developer has a donation link on the page. Unfortunately, that assumption is incorrect. It does work for free on YouTube and Twitch (and possibly on some other websites), but on any other site, an active subscription to the service is required. Regrettably, the developer failed to disclose this information in the description.
Regarding YouTube song recognition, I attempted to identify songs on lofi girl music streams (both lofi and synthwave radios), but it failed most of the time. This was surprising, given that it was practically the same use case as shown in the demo video.
For standalone songs, the recognition works fairly well. However, when there is someone speaking over the song, such as in let's play videos or on Twtich streams, its reliability significantly decreases, even for popular music. Based on my limited testing, it was able to identify only 2 out of 10 songs in different attempts. That's quite disappointing.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoHi, thanks a lot for the update!
- There are 10 websites where the extension is not supposed to work without an API token, to prevent people (usually, employees of these websites' owners) from using the extension for work. The list:
"watzatsong", "coub", "gyrostream.com", "cms.onerpm.com", "rumedia.io", "decabroda.studio", "adsintegrity.net", "file:///", "v16-tcs.tiktokcdn.com", "rmxindia.in", "vk.com".
The extension should work on any website that doesn't have any of these strings in the URL.
Can you please send us a link where the extension refused to identify the song? This is likely a bug (perhaps a false positive match with the strings above?). Our email is firefox@audd.io.
- Regarding YouTube streams, some of them broadcast songs that are "not copyrighted"/were not released on digital platforms, and unfortunately we don't have them in our DB.
- 2 out of 10 songs with people talking over is quite a low number; can you try increasing the recording length in the settings to 12 seconds and see if that improves?
We really appreciate you giving the extension another try and making the update!
- There are 10 websites where the extension is not supposed to work without an API token, to prevent people (usually, employees of these websites' owners) from using the extension for work. The list:
"watzatsong", "coub", "gyrostream.com", "cms.onerpm.com", "rumedia.io", "decabroda.studio", "adsintegrity.net", "file:///", "v16-tcs.tiktokcdn.com", "rmxindia.in", "vk.com".
The extension should work on any website that doesn't have any of these strings in the URL.
Can you please send us a link where the extension refused to identify the song? This is likely a bug (perhaps a false positive match with the strings above?). Our email is firefox@audd.io.
- Regarding YouTube streams, some of them broadcast songs that are "not copyrighted"/were not released on digital platforms, and unfortunately we don't have them in our DB.
- 2 out of 10 songs with people talking over is quite a low number; can you try increasing the recording length in the settings to 12 seconds and see if that improves?
We really appreciate you giving the extension another try and making the update!
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14630718, 21 days agoглючное какое-то. После запуска попытки распознать музыку на странице в ютуб, напрочь пропадает звук и пока не отключишь расширение - так и не восстанавливается.
- Rated 5 out of 5by vkfi, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Klein, a month agoThe tab just get muted. Please fix. I will come back to change my review.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18877700, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Kenok, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Dax, 2 months agoNice job fixing it, or maybe I accidentally troubleshot, but now instead of muting the audio, I can still hear it when the extension is running. Thank you!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18850228, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Foorty, 2 months agoDoesn't seem to work on any site I've tried and would be useful on. It just permanently mutes the tabs, even if i go directly to the media file in a new tab the same happens. Only place where i got it to work on is youtube, except why would i need this for youtube only?
Basically it's completely useless. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 5549291, 2 months agoUsed to be great. Now fully mutes websites upon use, while also not being free on Twitch anymore. Nice while it lasted!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14350702, 2 months agoThe AudD AddOn used to be great, but now it's buggy to the point of being unusable. Every time you try to analyze music, the browser tab is muted and you have to completely reload to get sound again. Very cool for streams... not!
- Rated 1 out of 5by AziSlays, 3 months agotried it twice. somehow it not only fails to find any music but also mute everything on the browser until I removed the application.
- Rated 5 out of 5by jackyzy823, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Samg381, 3 months agoI have two complaints with this plugin. The first issue is with respect to the pricing and API configuration- the setup of which is somewhat convoluted for most users, and there is no free tier, similar to Shazam, and it is unclear what benefit the API key brings, or when it is active / actively assisting recognition, or disabled or invalid. My second issue relates to the muting issue, where your browser tab stops producing audio when the recognition button is pressed. This probably has something to do with the way this app handles audio pipelines in the browser, but it is annoying nonetheless. Other than that, this plugin works mostly well, and I appreciate the developers for maintaining it.