SoundTracking – It Listens, It Identifies, It Lets You Share Your Music, It’s Cool
by Paul Wilks
Jan 6, 2012 8:55 AM –
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SoundTracking is a cool little app that lets you share the soundtrack of your life. With enhanced music identification (like with Shazam or Soundhound) you can easily share the music you’re listening to quickly. Alternatively you can search and enter your music, or it even notices when you play music on your device and offers you the opportunity to share that. A funky way to share the music you listen to, it’s an interesting way to show off your taste in music!
Price: Free
Tested on: HTC Desire HD
Content Rating: Medium Maturity
Pros & Cons:
Pros
- Three cool ways to identify music!
- Add photos and locations!
- Share across Twitter, Facebook or FourSquare!
- Find friends, share music, follow trends and listen to samples!
- Smart UI!
- Easy to use!
Cons
Features:
SoundTracking is a smooth and fun-to-use app which lets you share music. Perhaps there’s a song that you really enjoy and you want to tell people about it. Soundtracking lets you share the soundtrack of your life, letting you post across numerous social networks.
Music can be identified in three ways. Firstly, the app can listen to and identify the music you’re playing. If you’ve used apps like Shazam or Soundhound, it works in a very similar way. Alternatively you can search and enter the music you’re listening to at the time, it takes a bit longer, but if it’s an obscure remix or an unknown band it’s the better option. Thirdly, the app will overhear when you’re playing music through your device, and offer to post this to your Soundtracking stream, pretty intuitive.
When posting you can also add pictures and locations; pretty neat for remembering where you were when you played certain songs. Sharing is the big thing here and, as well as sharing across the usual social networks you can find and accumulate SoundTracking friends. You then have a ready stream of your friends soundtracks. Brilliantly, you can see what they are listening to and even play a sample of the song through the app in a inventive little music player. From here you can also like, love, or comment; adding a friendly feel to the service and building a great community of people with similar music tastes. It is, of course, great for finding new music too!
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SoundTracking – Listening to track
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SoundTracking – Stream
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SoundTracking – Listen to samples
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SoundTracking – Your recent posts
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SoundTracking – Trending Posts
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SoundTracking – Post a track
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SoundTracking – Music track
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SoundTracking – Profile settings
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SoundTracking – Share options
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SoundTracking – Find friends
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SoundTracking – Push settings
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SoundTracking – Alert and notification settings
Usefulness:
I tend to listen to quite a lot of music throughout the day (most recently the new Black Keys album, ‘El Camino’) and I’ve found the app a fun way to share what I’m listening to. The app occasionally fails to identify tracks but these tend to be rarer remixes and live versions more than anything. I didn’t find this happened often though, and you can always enter information manually. It’s great for finding out what taste in music your friends have, you can search for any of your Facebook, Twitter and FourSquare friends and follow them through SoundTracking.
Ease of Use:
I feel the app is designed for ease of use. From the music identification to the few small tabs you have to press to share your listening habits, it’s simple and very easy to use. It lacks a useful homescreen widget though, but works well nonetheless.
Frequently Used:
I pretty much find myself using the app several times per week, especially if I’m writing or just playing music in the background. With the way SoundTracking picks up on what you’re playing through your device, whenever you play music you can also quickly and easily share.
Interface:
The interface is nice and functional, it looks good and is very responsive. Although they genuinely serve different purposes, I think Shazam has a slightly better UI, but SoundTracking works well and has a good if not great interface to play with.