Reviews for AudD® Music Recognition
AudD® Music Recognition by AudD, LLC
Review by dbaser
Rated 4 out of 5
by dbaser, 6 months agoChanged my original 1-star review to 4 stars after reading Developer response. I was originally under the impression that this requires Sign Up and is only a Free Trial of an extension. I thought this for a few reasons:
1) Before using, I read other reviews stating the same thing.
2) When I first tried to use it without an API token, it did not find any songs I tried. I then opened Settings and saw a field for an API token and the words "API token, paste it below" and thought that it must not work without an API token. I signed up for the API token (not knowing the API is a separate product) and after creating an account the dashboard shows that the user is on a 2-week Free Trial. I thought this applied to the extension, not the API.
3) There is a link on the main extension page to a Privacy Policy which differed from the one I read on the API dashboard, which further contributed to my impression that it is a paid extension, as I was unaware they are two separate products.
Now that I have read the Developer response, when I go to Settings, I can clearly see that it reads "If you're subscribed to the AudD® Music recognition API and have an API token, paste it below." I didn't notice this at first and thought the API token was required.
I have tried it and you can indeed use the extension to find songs without any API token. I gave the extension four stars instead of five only because the AHA extension is still better at actual song recognition. Thanks for the response developer! My apologies for assuming the worst in my original review.
1) Before using, I read other reviews stating the same thing.
2) When I first tried to use it without an API token, it did not find any songs I tried. I then opened Settings and saw a field for an API token and the words "API token, paste it below" and thought that it must not work without an API token. I signed up for the API token (not knowing the API is a separate product) and after creating an account the dashboard shows that the user is on a 2-week Free Trial. I thought this applied to the extension, not the API.
3) There is a link on the main extension page to a Privacy Policy which differed from the one I read on the API dashboard, which further contributed to my impression that it is a paid extension, as I was unaware they are two separate products.
Now that I have read the Developer response, when I go to Settings, I can clearly see that it reads "If you're subscribed to the AudD® Music recognition API and have an API token, paste it below." I didn't notice this at first and thought the API token was required.
I have tried it and you can indeed use the extension to find songs without any API token. I gave the extension four stars instead of five only because the AHA extension is still better at actual song recognition. Thanks for the response developer! My apologies for assuming the worst in my original review.
Developer response
posted 6 months agoApologies for causing confusion; the extension does not require a sign-up. You can use it without an API token. The API token field is for people with an active subscription. The free trial is for our API product and shouldn’t be used in the extension; the extension works without an API account and is completely free.
Extension users are subject to the add-on's privacy policy. Website sign-ups are not required to use the add-on.
(Thanks for taking the time to review! It’s valuable to know people might think a token is required; we’ll make changes to make it clear that it’s not.
Users can also reach us at hello@audd.io).
If there are any particular songs AHA recognizes that we don't, please also let us know- our music recognition accuracy should be higher on average
Extension users are subject to the add-on's privacy policy. Website sign-ups are not required to use the add-on.
(Thanks for taking the time to review! It’s valuable to know people might think a token is required; we’ll make changes to make it clear that it’s not.
Users can also reach us at hello@audd.io).
If there are any particular songs AHA recognizes that we don't, please also let us know- our music recognition accuracy should be higher on average
142 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14630718, 6 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, 12 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Klein, 19 days agoThe tab just get muted. Please fix. I will come back to change my review.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18877700, 24 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Kenok, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Dax, a month 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, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Foorty, a month 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, 2 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, 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Samg381, 2 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.
- Rated 2 out of 5by 𝘽. 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙠𝙮, 3 months agoWorks really well, Recently there is a bug where it mutes the tab's audio when searching and has to reload to get back audio.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Nodus, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17822790, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13331269, 3 months agoEven after the last update there is still problem in many sites. Now add-on doens't give result or mutes site and a refresh of the site is required/ For example: www.kusc.org, strummerradio.com, jazz.org
- Rated 3 out of 5by NicCrimson, 3 months agoWorks really well, Recently there is a bug where it mutes the tab's audio when searching and has to reload to get back audio. Also can't use because of error:
"Recognition failed: authorization failed: no api_token passed and the limit was reached. Get an api_token from dashboard.audd.io and make sure you're passing the token in the `api_token` parameter." - Rated 1 out of 5by IndiePat, 3 months ago"Requires" very suspicious optional permissions it will prompt you for such as accessing data for all websites. It works perfectly fine without the permission so I worry it is selling information.
Developer response
posted 3 months agoYou can find the extension's source code at https://github.com/AudDMusic/firefox-extension.
On many streaming websites, the audio source is in an iframe/embedded content, which the extension can't access to record audio without that permission.
The only information the extension sends us is information about the current tab when the add-on is opened and the corresponding recorded audio.
We do not sell any user information. - Rated 5 out of 5by GODIE, 3 months ago