Entertain Yourself from the Couch - iConnected: Use AirPlay, iCloud, Apps, and More to Bring Your Apple Devices Together - page 83

The Miracle of Music Recognition
If you're not familiar with apps like Shazam or SoundHound, you're really missing a trick.
It's more than likely that you've heard a song on the radio, on TV, or even in a bar and thought,
“I wonder who this is?” at one point in your life. Unless you're lucky enough to have friends
with encyclopedic music knowledge nearby or you're the sort of person who pesters DJs, a
number of great tunes will have passed you by.
That's what Shazam (shown at left) and SoundHound address. With them, you use your
iOS device to find the name of the track playing, the name of the artist, the album it came from
and, most important, where you can buy it. Basically, you have them listen to the music
through your iOS device's microphone, then they match it from their exhaustive database.
But they can do more than just identify the song and tell you where to buy it. Shazam, for
example, allows you to view on YouTube the video for the song you've “tagged,” check out when
the band or artist is touring, share who you're listening to on Twitter, and even see the lyrics for
the song currently playing. SoundHound offers similar features, plus has the unique trick of al-
lowing you to sing or hum into it and, in most situations, determine the song (if your singing or
humming is relatively accurate).
Believe it or not, I have it on good authority that musicians use such apps when composing
new songs to make sure they're not ripping off another artist's work.
Play content from your iTunes library from your Apple TV
Once your Apple TV is connected to your iTunes library, all the stored music, movies, TV shows,
and podcasts can be played on your TV: