Reviews for AudD® Music Recognition
AudD® Music Recognition by AudD, LLC
Review by Samg381
Rated 1 out of 5
by Samg381, a year agoUpdate: dropping stars due to bait-and-switch. The app is now paid. Feeling somewhat betrayed having provided feedback and bug reports over the course of several years. Will return to searching for the next shazam alternative. A sad day.
Old review: I have two complaints with this plugin. The first issue is with respect to the pricing and API configuration- the setup of which is somewhat convoluted for most users, and there is no free tier, similar to Shazam, and it is unclear what benefit the API key brings, or when it is active / actively assisting recognition, or disabled or invalid. My second issue relates to the muting issue, where your browser tab stops producing audio when the recognition button is pressed. This probably has something to do with the way this app handles audio pipelines in the browser, but it is annoying nonetheless. Other than that, this plugin works mostly well, and I appreciate the developers for maintaining it.
Old review: I have two complaints with this plugin. The first issue is with respect to the pricing and API configuration- the setup of which is somewhat convoluted for most users, and there is no free tier, similar to Shazam, and it is unclear what benefit the API key brings, or when it is active / actively assisting recognition, or disabled or invalid. My second issue relates to the muting issue, where your browser tab stops producing audio when the recognition button is pressed. This probably has something to do with the way this app handles audio pipelines in the browser, but it is annoying nonetheless. Other than that, this plugin works mostly well, and I appreciate the developers for maintaining it.
Developer response
posted 7 months agoYou don't need to have an API token to use the extension. Apologies if the interface is not clear on that. The field to provide an API token is only for people who otherwise have an API account and, e.g., want to use the extension for work purposes. If you don't have one, you can leave the field empty and use the extension completely for free, with the temporary exception of a small number of websites where there’s a lot of abuse (on the order of $200/300 per month in server costs).
Really sorry about the experience with audio recording! We’ve now fixed the issues & bugs related to it!
Starting with version 3.2.4 (it's live now! you can update the extension in Extensions -> Settings -> Check for Updates), audio should not be muted on any websites, and audio recording should work perfectly almost everywhere, including basically all video players.
(Thanks for taking the time to write the review! It marginally prompted us to actually spend effort figuring out the issue, getting help from the community, and finally fixing it. That took hundreds of lines of fairly complicated code.)
Really sorry about the experience with audio recording! We’ve now fixed the issues & bugs related to it!
Starting with version 3.2.4 (it's live now! you can update the extension in Extensions -> Settings -> Check for Updates), audio should not be muted on any websites, and audio recording should work perfectly almost everywhere, including basically all video players.
(Thanks for taking the time to write the review! It marginally prompted us to actually spend effort figuring out the issue, getting help from the community, and finally fixing it. That took hundreds of lines of fairly complicated code.)
184 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by OKRA, 8 days agoIt works majority of the imes and I install it in every browser I use. No idea why it has only 3 stars, deserves atleast 4 imo.
edit: oh apparently it bugged out a few months back so thats why it has 3 stars. In its current state its a 5 star for me. - Rated 1 out of 5by Soup, 9 days agoHas not been able to recognize a single song I tried identifying.
- Rated 1 out of 5by aydro, a month agoare you kidding me, you now have to PAY just to use the extension?
get out of my extensions list.Developer response
posted a month agoA bug, not an intended behavior. We're investigating (thx to a user who reported this on GitHub issues).
Could you please share your browser version? - Rated 1 out of 5by jjbJXNjkxb, 2 months agoliterally told me to pay up to be able to recognize a song off a single local file on my pc
- Rated 1 out of 5by centurion 2000, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Alex Reynard, 3 months agoAsking for money for new features? Fine. Changing the main feature of the software, that was previously free, to now being paid-access-only? No. You're gone.
- Rated 1 out of 5by MiBenn, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19433736, 5 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Quetzal, 5 months agoBroken and returns the error message:
An unexpected error occurred during recording: ReferenceError: elemForRecording is not defined
Sometimes just doesn't do anything at all. - Rated 5 out of 5by Enzo, 5 months agoWonderful job! Helped me countless times! And now there is no bugs anymore!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Пётр Богданов, 6 months agoНе работает. Выдает вот такое:
Recognition failed: sorry, sanctions prevent us from providing our services in your region.
А при включенном впн пишет:
Простите, на этом сайте работает только платная версия. - Rated 5 out of 5by Oracle, 6 months agoGood, but completely breaks netflix.
Edit: No longer breaks netflix.Developer response
posted 6 months agoCan you please update the extension? The bug should be fixed in the latest version.
(The bug led to the video appearing in front of the controls. Sorry for messing up the Netflix interface and making you go through the trouble of figuring out the cause.) - Rated 2 out of 5by buraky, 6 months agoCauses bugs on netflix even when not activated for song search, renders the whole platform basically disfunctional.
Edit: I don't remember it causing any problem on youtube or other video playing websites. But netflix was the only platform which uses DRM. Not sure if it's related.Developer response
posted 6 months agoCan you please update the extension? The bug should be fixed in the latest version.
(The bug led to the video appearing in front of the controls. Sorry for messing up the Netflix interface and making you go through the trouble of figuring out the cause.) - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14017374, 6 months agoThe addon got fixed, most of the 1 star are just talking about it or have unupdated clients.
Best music finder I found so far, great work! - Rated 4 out of 5by Wax, 7 months ago
Developer response
posted 6 months agoCan you please update the extension? The bug should be fixed in the latest version!
Starting with version 3.2.4, audio should not be muted on any websites, and audio recording should work perfectly almost everywhere, including basically all video players.
Thanks for taking the time to write the review! It marginally prompted us to actually spend effort figuring out the issue, getting help from the community, and finally fixing it. That took hundreds of lines of code.- Rated 5 out of 5by tankistren, 7 months agoPerfect, got it yesterday for my browser, it had trouble with muting videos, but at the same day I got this add-on this problem get fixed, so now it's perfect for finding songs. Thank you developers for this add-on, cause it really sucked to not have normal song identifier in Firefox.
UPD:
Don't know how to answer normally, so I'll just update my review.
Well that's interesting, because from my side, only thing that I did was turning off then on add-on. Actually at add-ons manager at firefox, it's saying: "Last Updated July 7, 2025", so I thought that something changed from your side.Developer response
posted 7 months agoThanks a lot! Can you please say more about what fixed the problem for you? Because we didn't change anything and still need to address the bug
Edit: we had updated the extension description, but not the extension itself.
(That said, we're releasing a new version that should hopefully fix this issue for everyone.) - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19096994, 7 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Cmill, 7 months agoIt mutes the sound in the browser every time I try to ID a song playing. Have to refresh the page just to get sound back again
Developer response
posted 6 months agoWe’ve fixed this issue!
Starting with version 3.2.4 (it's live now! you can update the extension in Extensions -> Settings -> Check for Updates), audio should not be muted on any websites, and audio recording should work perfectly almost everywhere, including basically all video players.
(Thanks for taking the time to write the review! It marginally prompted us to actually spend effort figuring out the issue, getting help from the community, and finally fixing it. That took hundreds of lines of code.)