Is there a good app for identify a song that is playing?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
86
Opportunity /100
90
Demand /100
33
Competition /100
95
Execution gap /100
2
Apps serving it
30
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to identify a song that is playing, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| can no longer identify songs | reliability | 10 | Nowadays it can’t find anything, regardless of volumes or clarity |
| fails to identify songs | reliability | 3 | now It seem to not be able to identify songs |
| cannot identify well-known songs | reliability | 1 | sound hound just couldn't find it. Absolute waste of time |
| unable to identify songs lately | reliability | 1 | the last few times I've tried to use it the app is unable to identify the song |
| cannot identify recent popular songs | reliability | 1 | One week after a popular song... Soundhound is not able to identify it |
| can't identify songs from TV | reliability | 1 | No matter how close I bring this app on my phone up to the tv, it still can’t register the name |
| won't identify music | reliability | 1 | it won’t identify music |
| identifies wrong song or no song | reliability | 1 | it’ll always bring up the wrong song or no song at all |
| slow song identification | performance | 1 | it takes so long to identify music. So I tried another popular app, and it works so much faster |
| can no longer identify any songs | reliability | 1 | it does not work anymore… it cannot identify any songs |
| can't identify new music | reliability | 1 | Hasn’t been able to identify new songs for a couple years now |
| can't identify older popular songs | reliability | 1 | the last few songs I've tried it couldn't find. They were popular back in the 90s |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoundHound - Music Discovery | 4.8★ | 180,780 | Free |
| Shazam: Find Music & Concerts | 4.9★ | 8,696,835 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 86 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
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