How to find a song from a video
- Upload the video or audio file in the box above: MP4, MOV, MP3, WAV and other common formats, up to 200 MB.
- Pick the moment where the music is clearest. If you don't, we use the middle of the file.
- Your browser cuts a 12-second audio clip. The video itself never leaves your device.
- In a few seconds you get the song title, artist and album, the label or rights holder, and links to listen and compare.
Finding a song from TikTok, Instagram or YouTube
The finder works on files, not links. If the video lives on a platform, get it onto your device first. A screen recording with sound is the simplest way, and it's what most people already do when they want to keep a clip.
Then upload the recording here. Twelve seconds of the background music is usually enough, even if someone is talking over part of it.
How it recognises the song
A song finder doesn't listen the way you do. It turns the audio into a fingerprint: a compact summary of which frequencies are loudest at each moment and how they change. Two copies of the same recording produce nearly the same fingerprint, even when one is quieter, compressed or has a voice on top.
We compare your clip's fingerprint with ACRCloud's catalogue, which ACRCloud says covers more than 150 million tracks. If ACRCloud can't answer, we fall back to AudD. Because matching follows timing, the result also tells you which part of the song your clip comes from.
When it can't find the song
Fingerprinting matches a specific recording, so a few cases come back with no match:
- Covers, live versions and karaoke. They are new recordings with their own fingerprints.
- Brand-new or unreleased music. If a track isn't in the catalogue yet, there's nothing to match.
- Sped-up, slowed or pitch-shifted edits. Small changes often still match; big ones can stop a match.
- Music buried under other sound. Loud voiceover, wind or a crowd leave less of the music to work with.
If the first try misses, pick a different 12 seconds where the music is louder.
Before you reuse the song
Knowing a song's name is the first step if you want to use it in your own video. The result shows who owns the recording and how likely platforms are to act on it. The copyright detector page explains what YouTube, TikTok and Instagram do when they match music, and how to tell if a song is copyrighted covers public domain, Creative Commons and stock licences.