Reviews for AudD® Music Recognition
AudD® Music Recognition by AudD, LLC
Review by dbaser
Rated 4 out of 5
by dbaser, 2 years agoChanged my original 1-star review to 4 stars after reading Developer response. I was originally under the impression that this requires Sign Up and is only a Free Trial of an extension. I thought this for a few reasons:
1) Before using, I read other reviews stating the same thing.
2) When I first tried to use it without an API token, it did not find any songs I tried. I then opened Settings and saw a field for an API token and the words "API token, paste it below" and thought that it must not work without an API token. I signed up for the API token (not knowing the API is a separate product) and after creating an account the dashboard shows that the user is on a 2-week Free Trial. I thought this applied to the extension, not the API.
3) There is a link on the main extension page to a Privacy Policy which differed from the one I read on the API dashboard, which further contributed to my impression that it is a paid extension, as I was unaware they are two separate products.
Now that I have read the Developer response, when I go to Settings, I can clearly see that it reads "If you're subscribed to the AudD® Music recognition API and have an API token, paste it below." I didn't notice this at first and thought the API token was required.
I have tried it and you can indeed use the extension to find songs without any API token. I gave the extension four stars instead of five only because the AHA extension is still better at actual song recognition. Thanks for the response developer! My apologies for assuming the worst in my original review.
1) Before using, I read other reviews stating the same thing.
2) When I first tried to use it without an API token, it did not find any songs I tried. I then opened Settings and saw a field for an API token and the words "API token, paste it below" and thought that it must not work without an API token. I signed up for the API token (not knowing the API is a separate product) and after creating an account the dashboard shows that the user is on a 2-week Free Trial. I thought this applied to the extension, not the API.
3) There is a link on the main extension page to a Privacy Policy which differed from the one I read on the API dashboard, which further contributed to my impression that it is a paid extension, as I was unaware they are two separate products.
Now that I have read the Developer response, when I go to Settings, I can clearly see that it reads "If you're subscribed to the AudD® Music recognition API and have an API token, paste it below." I didn't notice this at first and thought the API token was required.
I have tried it and you can indeed use the extension to find songs without any API token. I gave the extension four stars instead of five only because the AHA extension is still better at actual song recognition. Thanks for the response developer! My apologies for assuming the worst in my original review.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoApologies for causing confusion; the extension does not require a sign-up. You can use it without an API token. The API token field is for people with an active subscription. The free trial is for our API product and shouldn’t be used in the extension; the extension works without an API account and is completely free.
Extension users are subject to the add-on's privacy policy. Website sign-ups are not required to use the add-on.
(Thanks for taking the time to review! It’s valuable to know people might think a token is required; we’ll make changes to make it clear that it’s not.
Users can also reach us at [email protected]).
If there are any particular songs AHA recognizes that we don't, please also let us know- our music recognition accuracy should be higher on average
Extension users are subject to the add-on's privacy policy. Website sign-ups are not required to use the add-on.
(Thanks for taking the time to review! It’s valuable to know people might think a token is required; we’ll make changes to make it clear that it’s not.
Users can also reach us at [email protected]).
If there are any particular songs AHA recognizes that we don't, please also let us know- our music recognition accuracy should be higher on average
194 reviews
Developer response
posted 4 days agoWe’re continuously surprised by the reviews as they seem disingenuous. From reviews claiming that this is malware (while it’s open source and can easily be checked!) to reviews and explicitly promoting other extensions.
We don’t have a way to delete reviews; we can flag them for Mozilla’s review, and they delete reviews that violate their policies.Developer response
posted 4 days agoHuh? We’re continuously surprised by the reviews as they seem disingenuous and sometimes promoting other extensions. This extension is open source; you can easily check that the code here and the code on our GitHub are the same, as well as review the code itself; what makes you say it’s malware?- Rated 1 out of 5by July, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by ELS, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20013346, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by SoupRice, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by user_7, 4 months agoExcellent extension, it met my needs perfectly. It can identify songs directly from YouTube with precision, including some that are not available on streaming platforms.
Developer response
posted 6 days agoSmall amounts of usage don’t require an account or any subscription; we’re only asking for an api token when the usage is too high, as we want to prevent abuse.- Rated 4 out of 5by Anon007, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by DeineMudda69, 6 months agoOnly mediocre at recognizing songs. Eventually asks me for an "API token" because my limit was reached. GTFO.
- Rated 5 out of 5by OKRA, 7 months 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, 7 months agoHas not been able to recognize a single song I tried identifying.
- Rated 1 out of 5by aydro, 8 months agoare you kidding me, you now have to PAY just to use the extension?
get out of my extensions list.Developer response
posted 7 months 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, 8 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, 9 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Alex Reynard, 9 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, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19433736, a year ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Quetzal, a year 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, a year agoWonderful job! Helped me countless times! And now there is no bugs anymore!