Ok, I was upset with Shazam moving to the “you get 5 lookups a month for free” stance. So I switched to using Bing for those music searches, it is built right into the phone if you press the search button. Its performance was less than good, it would find very few songs and it took a long time for it to grab the music to do the lookup. Last night I notice SoundHound is in the WP7 app store so I tried it out and boy oh boy, it works quite well. It has found all of the songs I have thrown at it and fast too, still need to see how quickly it will work but it seems MUCH faster than Bing. You can check out SoundHound at SoundHound.com or just go to the app store here http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/6bae10bf-e831-49b7-a51f-cee8e91c7b1d and grab it. It is well worth it and it is free to boot!
Dec 052011