Nothing is more satisfying than hearing a good song that grabs your attention. Whether you’ve heard a familiar song, or you’re hearing a great piece of music for the first time, and you desperately want to find out what it is, you’ll need something to help you find the details of the song there and then.

Here, we’ll give you five Chrome extensions to help you do just that.

1. AudD Music Recognition

Identifying music with AudD Music Recognition

AudD Music Recognition is a Chrome extension that can recognize music from any website you're on. With a database of over 65 million songs to assist in recognizing music, you can quickly get music recognized as you browse.

To access this Chrome extension, all you should do is install the extension, then click on the extension’s icon when you’re on a tab with music you’d like to identify. From there, AudD Music Recognition will listen and provide details on the music.

If the song has lyrics, you can also view lyrics of identified music. This music identifier will also give you the exact time stamp in which the recognized song is playing.

2. AHA Music

AHA Music extension install page

If you’re looking for a reliable and easy to use song identifier, this is it. AHA Music has over 900,000 users who’ve used this tool to identify songs.

To use this tool, you just have to install the AHA Music extension from Chrome’s web store, then head to the extension whenever you want to identify a song.

AHA Music will give you the song details, and when you click on it, you’ll get the option to stream it on music platforms, or share it on social media.

3. Shazam

Shazam website info page

If you use Shazam to identify music on your phone, then you might know that it’s a reliable tool to use to discover song names.

Luckily, Shazam isn’t just a music identification app, but you can access Shazam’s Chrome extension too. With over two million users who are matching over one billion songs every month, this popular tool will have you discovering songs in no time.

You can access Shazam by installing the Chrome extension and using it to identify music on any website. You can also connect Shazam’s Chrome extension to your Apple Music account. That way, when you find a song, you can open it in Apple Music and add it to a playlist.

4. Chromesthesia

Chromesthesia page on Chrome web store

Chromesthesia is a simple Chrome extension that lets you identify music online. This tool doesn’t come with many features, so it works well if you simply want to identify a song name and the artist.

You can use Chromesthesia to identify music and songs in YouTube videos, or any other website. You just have to make sure you’re on the tab that’s playing music.

To use this extension, install it onto Chrome, then click on the Chromesthesia icon to identify music. To accurately identify music, you might have to click on Listen again in the box that pops up.

5. SongSearch

Identifying a song with SongSearch

SongSearch is another simple music identifying Chrome extension. When you have the SongSearch extension installed, and you’re on the tab with music, head to the extension’s icon and click the record button.

SongSearch will identify your song and help you search for the identified song on YouTube, Apple Music, and Spotify.

Easily Identify Music as You Browse

Whether you’re streaming an episode and you want to identify a specific soundtrack, or you heard a song in a YouTube video, you can use the Chrome extensions mentioned above to identify songs online.

Even if you’re not using your desktop, and you want to find the details of a particular song you’ve heard, there are still other ways to identify music.