Actually, I did know about the Google hum to find a song feature but NOT about the now playing feature on Google Pixels since I've seen so many ads on TH-cam for the Google song humming feature thing.
Another Google tip is that if you use the Google Clock app for your alarm, you can set a routine to go off when you dismiss your alarm. I have mine set to turn on the lights, adjust the thermostat, tell me the weather, what's on my calendar, and more. No more having to talk to Google in the morning!
Thats actually a really helpful tip for somebody whos obsessed with tech and smarthome stuff, but refuses to put a wire tap in my home lmao Im definitely gunna use that. Ive never been able to use routines to its fullest extent I feel like
@@GlorifiedGremlinOk this is 5 months old but I gotta know. You have a "wire tap" on you *everywhere* and *all the time*. It's your phone. How is that different? lol
Same here, but I think it's less that he didn't know about it and moreso, that he believes that other people didn't know. Plus he is trying to be more like MrWhosetheBoss featuring hidden facts lol 😅
He def knew 💀 Just wanted to make a video informing people... I remember him talking about and using it with the boys in his podcast about 2 months back
Also since android 12 there is a setting and quick toggle to completely disable microphone access to the entire OS and apps, it overrides the per-app microphone permission
I love SoundHound, so many times I'd hum a song and it picks it up so quick. Last one it got for me was Alors Dance (or however it's spelled) even when my humming was atrocious
Googles music thing is def better for non English songs tho. I tried a few songs in different languages and sound hound struggled with those and got them right less than 30 percent of the time while google got them or at least a suggestion of it every time
There's one big pain point I have with this. If I have a google assistant playing a radio station on TuneIn or something similar, and I ask it to identify what's playing, it sees that it's my other device playing and just tells me the metadata from it, which is usually just the radio station name and nothing about the song!
What device do you have? Because I am able to see the song when I hit search on my pixel 6. Also I never experienced Google not being able to tell me the name of the song if it's the one playing it, but it might be different for radio stations I guess.
@@micahjohnson9184 its an issue on Google smart speakers, they can't identify songs from streaming radio directly. Yes you could pull out your phone and have it listen but why can't it do it on the speaker
@@EoRdE6 ohh thank you! I don't listen to the radio on my nest hub 2, but they should definitely fix that. That's really annoying that the assistant can't do that on the device. Sorry lol re-read your comment 😅 How long has this issue been around?
Thank you so much for this Marques! I was able to find a German song that I used to hear all the time in 2014 when I was in Germany. But I don't know the language so never could tell which song it was. Until now. Google's awesome
There are million and billions of music out there from listening to recognize and matching them in real time and show the results in a second is juat amazing
I think I remember this feature way back when Google made Home Max. I remember the ad, Diplo was singing "Know No Better" and the Assistant recognised it.
Same....! I have been using it for so long now, the thing is they didn't do proper advertisement of the feature causing lot of people to be unaware of it
I remember jokingly trying to do this years ago and it just.. working. Like "Hey google what song sounds like do do do doo doo do do do" and having it actually recognize the notes and make the correct suggestion. Wild.
Dude this has been out for quite some time ,it's been the most consistent for me I always use it like ,"Google whats this song "and then I sing it works 98%of the time
I have known this for a while now. Was casually humming a song and saw my phone lit up & it was google assistant showing me a possible match for the song I was singing. A very cool feature they have there
If I recall correctly. About 2 years ago, Kid Cudi made an ad with Google on this feature. He hummed one of his songs, I can't remember if it's Day n Night or Memories
No haha it's actually cus apple wouldn't approve of a badly designed app on their app store so they gotta meet apple's standard if they want chrome to be on the app store
Google maps historically is way better and more advanced on iOS than on Android… perhaps they spread their app development on Android too thin on multiple problems but keep a more consistent pace on iOS, where they only need to focus on a handful of apps.
I used to love this one song that just has ethereal vibes. And I grew out of it but I recently hummed it after years and have been desperately trying to find it by typing various version of the name of the song and the artist used shazam and every other song finders but nothing worked so I just accepted it but your video just popped up randomly and google found it for me. It was truly a spiritual ascending experience. Thank you.
And I've always had some 3rd party app for those random detections. Never knew it would've been possible on stock phone. Manufacturers should try to raise awareness of stuff like this.
I remember this being talked about at a Google conference YEARS ago, but I could never figure out how to access it, because one thing Google is TERRRIBLE at is promoting their features.
I believe SoundHound has had this humming feature for years now.
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new? It's been there for years. I mean, every time I click on the microphone for asking something by voice on the bottom of the screen there's a button asking «Search a song» Edit: I've got a 24% mumbling Eleanor Rigby.
here is a tip if you want to find the music of a video, what i usually do is i plug in my earphones that have a built in mic, and i split screen the google sound search and the video that has the music you want to find so first i max the volume of my phone with the earphones plugged in ( don't wear the earphones if you want to still hear) i place one of the earphones close to the mic and i play the video and tap the sound search button to start searching and after that it immediately finds the correct music hope this was helpful
This is actually pretty old, but glad you're aware of it. You can also say Lumos and Knox to turn your phone's flashlight on and off. You're also able to wipe your hand across the screen to take a screenshot.
Well see some of the stuff you named are phone features. Not google assistant features. Google assistant works on iPhones. That hand wipe for screen shots doesn’t
Or you can use Samsung Registar to turn on flashlight by tapping your phone or navstar or again registar to take screenshot by navigation button or tapping the back of the phone
@@toptiertech7291 nope but Registar or Navstar in gooflock takes a screenshot button tapping the back of the phone or hitting the screenshot button!!! CRAPPLE sucks
I actually managed to find a song I only remembered the melody of for about 20 years. Stuck in my head but could never find it no matter how hard I tried... Until a couple of months ago using exactly this. I was mindblown that 20 years of on-off searching finally came to an end with some humming of what I could remember of a melody from such a long time ago.
The most important thing is the melody. You can try humming, playing a flute, or even just sing with a completely wrong lyrics. As long as the melody is correct then Google will detect it.
Plus: for those who don’t speak English and want to guess a song in English, if you type whatever sound like in your native language that resembles the original music name, it matches 100%. That’s superb.
They literally had a whole advertising campaign with some girls sitting at a table like "Hey Google, What is this song". It was an insanely annoying commercial.
After trying a lot of robots like this, I finally found the song I had in my head for months on this Google bot. I was very surprised because it was a '60s Italian pop song. But I must say it wasn't very easy to find the functionality at this time - a couple years ago. I hope Google changed its visibility / accessibility of this tool.
The search a song feature on the iPhone apparently has been removed. Unsure if it’s the same for android but it seems like they ( google ) never updated it to the new IOS app. You can do a regular voice search for info, but the “search a song” has been gone for a long time now ( on IOS so far )
Been using this feature extensively for sometime now. Works much better than most apps and i've had so much success using it. Even for some obscure things i never thought would work. Humming, singing the lyrics, lalalala-ing all works.
Another cool feature is with the alarms. When the alarm goes instead of fumbling to find your phone you can just say snooze or stop and the alarm will respond accordingly, which I've found myself using quite frequently
Using this google feature for over 2 years now. Thanks for sharing with the rest of the world. More music accessibility makes the world a happier place. 😊
The "now playing" feature is one of my favorite features in Pixels. Ignoring the whole phone always listening privacy thing, which is a problem - it's unobtrusive in terms of usability. Any time something is playing around me I only need to have a look at the phone to know what it is. Only issue is sometimes it just doesn't come up, since it probably struggles to identify a song.
The late Sony Ericsson (Sony Mobile now) used to do this in an app called TrackID for it's phones since 2005, even before the "Smartphone era". The app was discontinued in 2017 as Shazam became the main app for Music ID at the time.
I used this feature to learn about half the songs I like by name. Sometimes I don't have time or the ability to Shazam songs so being able to go back and check that song I heard is great.
Thanks for sharing this! I've had the tune from "Vertigo" by U2 knocking around in my head for months, but I didn't know the name, or it turns out any of the words. Google figured it out after I whistled it on the second try. 😂
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Google really needs to step up their advertising. This is a feature from a few years ago and still not many people knew about it.
They play ads on TH-cam about this feature all the time. It’s the ad with the gay dude singing “disco man”
Literally was coming here to comment the exact same thing. Jeesh
It was in tv ads and everywhere roundabout 3 years ago
They have been advertising this for a years actually
Actually, I did know about the Google hum to find a song feature but NOT about the now playing feature on Google Pixels since I've seen so many ads on TH-cam for the Google song humming feature thing.
First time I knew something MKBHD didn't know, I have been using this for almost two years now.
Literally been doing these for YEARS!!! 🤣🤣
But you didn't tell me. I'm just knowing it now.
LOOKING FOR BlackBerry USERS WHO HAD THIS FEATURE SINCE SOUNDHOUND ON BBOS IN LIKE 2008
I use this since launch many years ago 🤔
Same here
Another Google tip is that if you use the Google Clock app for your alarm, you can set a routine to go off when you dismiss your alarm. I have mine set to turn on the lights, adjust the thermostat, tell me the weather, what's on my calendar, and more. No more having to talk to Google in the morning!
Thats actually a really helpful tip for somebody whos obsessed with tech and smarthome stuff, but refuses to put a wire tap in my home lmao Im definitely gunna use that. Ive never been able to use routines to its fullest extent I feel like
Whoooa. Gonna definitely check that out!
You mean google home app?
You use Google assistant as a controller instead. It's better. But yeah, they both operate within the same environment. @@Smoshylife
@@GlorifiedGremlinOk this is 5 months old but I gotta know. You have a "wire tap" on you *everywhere* and *all the time*. It's your phone. How is that different? lol
Now everybody accepted the fact the phones always listening
It's rather annoying!
Not everybody
It’s a setting which has existed for a while now which can be turned off.
he rick-rolled us in the most nonchalant way😂
He's transforming into Mrwhosetheboss
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He almost got it at 4:20pm too 😅
Thank you for the warning
@@weirdness9802I was going to comment this lol
I’ve been using this for years now, I can’t believe MKBHD didn’t know about this
Same here, but I think it's less that he didn't know about it and moreso, that he believes that other people didn't know. Plus he is trying to be more like MrWhosetheBoss featuring hidden facts lol 😅
same
He def knew 💀
Just wanted to make a video informing people... I remember him talking about and using it with the boys in his podcast about 2 months back
Iphone users aint smarg 😢
Me also
So it’s confirmed, google is ALWAYS listening
Well you can turn it off like me. Its in the settings
Google now playing feature uses a database that is locally stored on the device, it doesn't send data outside of the device, it works offline
Also since android 12 there is a setting and quick toggle to completely disable microphone access to the entire OS and apps, it overrides the per-app microphone permission
@@luigicorciulo8190yea you can also disable camera and location cool feature
@@luigicorciulo8190That's exactly what they want you to think, pal. Don't be a fool.
You can even add an "Sound Search" icon on the Android home screen for easier access.
Where do I get that icon? Do I press something before humming a song?
SoundHound has been doing that "humming detection" for at least ten years now.
Glad I'm not the only one who knows this!
@@xenontesla122 and even then it worked much better than google's solution does today, I might add.
15-17 years for Sony
I love SoundHound, so many times I'd hum a song and it picks it up so quick. Last one it got for me was Alors Dance (or however it's spelled) even when my humming was atrocious
Googles music thing is def better for non English songs tho. I tried a few songs in different languages and sound hound struggled with those and got them right less than 30 percent of the time while google got them or at least a suggestion of it every time
There's one big pain point I have with this. If I have a google assistant playing a radio station on TuneIn or something similar, and I ask it to identify what's playing, it sees that it's my other device playing and just tells me the metadata from it, which is usually just the radio station name and nothing about the song!
What device do you have? Because I am able to see the song when I hit search on my pixel 6. Also I never experienced Google not being able to tell me the name of the song if it's the one playing it, but it might be different for radio stations I guess.
@@micahjohnson9184 its an issue on Google smart speakers, they can't identify songs from streaming radio directly. Yes you could pull out your phone and have it listen but why can't it do it on the speaker
@@EoRdE6 ohh thank you! I don't listen to the radio on my nest hub 2, but they should definitely fix that. That's really annoying that the assistant can't do that on the device. Sorry lol re-read your comment 😅 How long has this issue been around?
Not for m
That would be frustrating
I've always loved this because it's impossible to find specific classical / instrumental pieces with search terms alone.
Thank you so much for this Marques! I was able to find a German song that I used to hear all the time in 2014 when I was in Germany. But I don't know the language so never could tell which song it was. Until now. Google's awesome
Funny you mention Germany--one of the few places on earth where Google Maps has been rendered effectively useless. Google's awesome! ;)
What song is it?
Zamn, Marques got some singing skills
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He just hummed bro
uh, no he doesn't
No he doesnt
I used to spend hours doing this with SoundHound back in the day.
Yes. I used SoundHound too
That's exactly what I wanted to say. Even before SoundHound it was called Midomi. So it's a pretty old feature. Nothing new from Google
There are million and billions of music out there from listening to recognize and matching them in real time and show the results in a second is juat amazing
TH-cam failed me by showing me this short a year and a half late. This is a game changer for me personally
I think I remember this feature way back when Google made Home Max. I remember the ad, Diplo was singing "Know No Better" and the Assistant recognised it.
unrelated but remember when burger king did their "okay google, tell me about the whopper" commercial? good times.
@@Chickaqee The trolling on Wikipedia was hilarious
Same....!
I have been using it for so long now, the thing is they didn't do proper advertisement of the feature causing lot of people to be unaware of it
I want to see all the outtakes where MKBHD botched a song so bad that Google couldn’t find it
🤣
I remember jokingly trying to do this years ago and it just.. working. Like "Hey google what song sounds like do do do doo doo do do do" and having it actually recognize the notes and make the correct suggestion. Wild.
That's an insane feature... I've been using this feature and it makes me feel like what an era I'm living in.
I've been using this feature for the past 2-3 years, and i can say that this is the most practical things from Google assistant
I'm just learning about it now.
Cant wait till apple invents this feature.
It’s been a built in feature for the iPhones for years…
Didn't he literally show an iPhone doing this?
@@herrjemeneh368On the Google app lol.
@@herrjemeneh368I believe he means not using Google Assistant.
@@NathanaelCarperNot really. You cannot hum the song with iPhones unless you're using Google Assistant.
Been doing it for random songs for reels & tiktoks for a while...
It's a great help tbh
I was just waiting to get properly Rick rolled.
am i the only one who just can't do this? google responds with "Sorry, I don't have that information" and doesnt even let me try to sing it
Dude this has been out for quite some time ,it's been the most consistent for me I always use it like ,"Google whats this song "and then I sing it works 98%of the time
This is an old feature. I used this 2 years ago. Amazing accuracy
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How do I activate this feature, when I ask do you recognise this song, than it tells me: I do not hear any song playing?
Shazam has been able to understand humming and whistling since 2010
I have known this for a while now. Was casually humming a song and saw my phone lit up & it was google assistant showing me a possible match for the song I was singing. A very cool feature they have there
If I recall correctly. About 2 years ago, Kid Cudi made an ad with Google on this feature. He hummed one of his songs, I can't remember if it's Day n Night or Memories
There's too many songs with Cudi hums 😭
it's so convenient for classical music cuz i can never remember the names. so i just play it myself and then itll tell me what song im playing
Just used it to hum a song I've been trying to find for months!! Thanks G!
This has tought me that even google prefers iOS 😢
No haha it's actually cus apple wouldn't approve of a badly designed app on their app store so they gotta meet apple's standard if they want chrome to be on the app store
Google maps historically is way better and more advanced on iOS than on Android… perhaps they spread their app development on Android too thin on multiple problems but keep a more consistent pace on iOS, where they only need to focus on a handful of apps.
Nah Google maps is better on Pixels.
Have been using this feature from 2017, shocked that MKBHD wasn't aware of this
I used to love this one song that just has ethereal vibes. And I grew out of it but I recently hummed it after years and have been desperately trying to find it by typing various version of the name of the song and the artist used shazam and every other song finders but nothing worked so I just accepted it but your video just popped up randomly and google found it for me. It was truly a spiritual ascending experience. Thank you.
You've gotta share the song now
And I've always had some 3rd party app for those random detections. Never knew it would've been possible on stock phone. Manufacturers should try to raise awareness of stuff like this.
Smartphones are always listing..
Aint no conspiracy theory.
Bruh they listen if you trigger them idiot
Wtf how I misread your comment, sorry my bad I'm an idiot
That's true. But how is this related?
Apple in 2077: I'm glad to show you our new feature. It's best iPhone we ever made.
iPhone has been doing this for a while
I remember this being talked about at a Google conference YEARS ago, but I could never figure out how to access it, because one thing Google is TERRRIBLE at is promoting their features.
And now I have The Beatles' Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da playing in my head. 😂😂😂
I believe SoundHound has had this humming feature for years now.
new? It's been there for years. I mean, every time I click on the microphone for asking something by voice on the bottom of the screen there's a button asking «Search a song»
Edit: I've got a 24% mumbling Eleanor Rigby.
Google listening all the time. Sounds like a great idea.
why do tech youtubers always have the need to rick roll us at any given chance.
I have been using it from last year... It isn't new 🤔
I doubt he said it was "new".
Almost every response from Google Assistant is "Sorry I don't have that information". Worked once because I sang the lyrics, ut nothing when humming.
Knowing a feature that MKHBD didn't know makes me feel like a guru
Hahaha me too man.. I've known this feature for years and I'm amazed that mkbhd didn't know about this😅
I've known this for like 3 years but it's not always able to pick up the song I'm singing
I feel like SoundHound has had this functionality for like 10 years at this point. Am I crazy?
I am just as suprised about the hype, soundhound has this feature for a long while now and it works great
I came to the comments for this! Glad I'm not the only one.🎉
Having the feature: yes. Working for me: No (doesn't work for non english songs that isn't famous)
In the Google app, when you tap the mic, it shows search the song. It's been there for a really long time now.
Soundhound was making a better job 10 years ago finding any song just by humming, but not anymore.
here is a tip if you want to find the music of a video, what i usually do is i plug in my earphones that have a built in mic, and i split screen the google sound search and the video that has the music you want to find so first i max the volume of my phone with the earphones plugged in ( don't wear the earphones if you want to still hear) i place one of the earphones close to the mic and i play the video and tap the sound search button to start searching and after that it immediately finds the correct music hope this was helpful
nice mrwhosetheboss reference
What was that? Can you explain. ?
@@kuldipsoliya7203 the rickroll
This is actually pretty old, but glad you're aware of it. You can also say Lumos and Knox to turn your phone's flashlight on and off. You're also able to wipe your hand across the screen to take a screenshot.
Well see some of the stuff you named are phone features. Not google assistant features. Google assistant works on iPhones. That hand wipe for screen shots doesn’t
Palm swipe screenshot feature is only samsung exclusive
Or you can use Samsung Registar to turn on flashlight by tapping your phone or navstar or again registar to take screenshot by navigation button or tapping the back of the phone
@@toptiertech7291 nope but Registar or Navstar in gooflock takes a screenshot button tapping the back of the phone or hitting the screenshot button!!! CRAPPLE sucks
@@toptiertech7291 sooooooooo what
This was one of the OG features from like 10 years ago. And it's gotten worse than it used to be.
I actually managed to find a song I only remembered the melody of for about 20 years. Stuck in my head but could never find it no matter how hard I tried... Until a couple of months ago using exactly this. I was mindblown that 20 years of on-off searching finally came to an end with some humming of what I could remember of a melody from such a long time ago.
The most important thing is the melody. You can try humming, playing a flute, or even just sing with a completely wrong lyrics. As long as the melody is correct then Google will detect it.
For those who are OK giving Google -- or any apps -- access to their microphones 24/7/365. LOL.
The mic can be completely disabled in the quick settings.
Plus: for those who don’t speak English and want to guess a song in English, if you type whatever sound like in your native language that resembles the original music name, it matches 100%. That’s superb.
I never used Shazam, instead I always do "Hey Google, What's this song?"
They literally had a whole advertising campaign with some girls sitting at a table like "Hey Google, What is this song".
It was an insanely annoying commercial.
Man, Al Bundy really needed that app.
Sneaky Rick Roll lol
After trying a lot of robots like this, I finally found the song I had in my head for months on this Google bot. I was very surprised because it was a '60s Italian pop song. But I must say it wasn't very easy to find the functionality at this time - a couple years ago. I hope Google changed its visibility / accessibility of this tool.
they had a shit ton of twitch/youtube ads where this girl was humming a tik tok song she didn’t know
That was first conceptualize over 10 years ago. Glad to be seeing it today. Finally
they had a whole ad campaign including this
The search a song feature on the iPhone apparently has been removed. Unsure if it’s the same for android but it seems like they ( google ) never updated it to the new IOS app. You can do a regular voice search for info, but the “search a song” has been gone for a long time now ( on IOS so far )
Been using this feature extensively for sometime now. Works much better than most apps and i've had so much success using it. Even for some obscure things i never thought would work. Humming, singing the lyrics, lalalala-ing all works.
They just need to do it for classical music pieces now.
Another cool feature is with the alarms. When the alarm goes instead of fumbling to find your phone you can just say snooze or stop and the alarm will respond accordingly, which I've found myself using quite frequently
Soundhound had this year's ago. Even with my terrible singing/humming it would still get it
I love asking my Google assistant "Why is Google assistant so bad?" and instead it gives me web results for "Why is Google assistant so rad"
Tried this on my Nest mini and she interrupted my beautiful humming with „NOTHING IS PLAYING RIGHT NOW“
Using this google feature for over 2 years now. Thanks for sharing with the rest of the world. More music accessibility makes the world a happier place. 😊
Wow, bye bye Shazam...
If I remember correctly, first versions of Shazam could do this very good. It was so amazing back in late 2000s😮
The "now playing" feature is one of my favorite features in Pixels. Ignoring the whole phone always listening privacy thing, which is a problem - it's unobtrusive in terms of usability. Any time something is playing around me I only need to have a look at the phone to know what it is. Only issue is sometimes it just doesn't come up, since it probably struggles to identify a song.
Only if this was out when Al was looking for his song.
Google dropping all pretense of privacy. Just listening to everything.
SoundHound had this feature years ago. SoundHound was actually way better than Shazam since the beginning. Shazam has caught up since then.
I remember when Google used to advertise this feature all the time
Now try Siri.
this has existed for as long as i can remember
I've used Now Playing for a while now, since I got my phone. I absolutely love it! It comes in super handy. Still works in my Pixel 3 XL
Foot asylum had like a whole series around this concept like a year ago it was fun
MKBHD pulling a rick-roll ffs 😂
Me, an introvert: 👊😉 n o
when i found out about this i was nearly mad that they didnt advertise it because i wanted this to exist for years .
SoundHound had that humming and whistling feature
This is a feature that was available since atleast 4 years. I have used this back when i bought the Note 10 plus almost 4 years ago !
Google literally had commercials for this feature. But it never worked for me.
The late Sony Ericsson (Sony Mobile now) used to do this in an app called TrackID for it's phones since 2005, even before the "Smartphone era".
The app was discontinued in 2017 as Shazam became the main app for Music ID at the time.
First time I found out about this and I'm a wedding DJ. This is so great for drunk song requests now😂
It's crazy the Google stuff looks better on the iPhone
This was a massive part of their marketing in I think 2021
"kinda sic..." "shazam it..."
I used this feature to learn about half the songs I like by name. Sometimes I don't have time or the ability to Shazam songs so being able to go back and check that song I heard is great.
You've been able to hum or whistle or sing-along for SoundHound to identify for many years now
Thanks for sharing this! I've had the tune from "Vertigo" by U2 knocking around in my head for months, but I didn't know the name, or it turns out any of the words. Google figured it out after I whistled it on the second try. 😂