There are times when you hear a song that you love, but don’t know the lyrics to. This can get annoying, especially if you’re singing along with the tune and end up delivering a nonsensical gibberish.

However, there are ways to identify songs without knowing the lyrics, such as with music recognition programs and apps. Here are some of the best ones to try out.

Google

If you’re having trouble figuring out what song you’re listening to, Google can help. The search engine has a “Hum to Search” feature that can tell you what song is playing if you hum it.

While it’s not perfect, it can be a great way to figure out a song if you haven’t heard it in a while. You can tap the microphone on the Google app or widget, hit “Search a Song,” then hum a melody to see what comes up.

But don’t be too quick to give up on the search engine: You can also try a site like Genius or IMDB. They’ll usually have the lyrics to the song you’re looking for.

However, the feature isn’t available for every song, so you may have to search around a bit for your earworms. The new search option is a way for Google to promote its own music service and possibly cut into the business of some of the third-party lyrics sites that are already popular.

Bing

Bing is Microsoft’s search engine and the second largest in the world, trailing Google with an impressive 87% market share. It was first unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in 2009 and replaced MSN Search, Windows Live Search and Live Search.

In its latest iteration, Bing is taking a big step towards making song lyrics easier for users to find. It’s now showing full lyrics for over half a million songs in its mainline search results pages.

To make this happen, Bing is leveraging a music lyrics service called LyricFind that has licensing agreements with all four major music labels.

The lyrics are displayed as a part of the main search result and can be expanded when available, in a knowledge graph fashion, with artist, album and related searches on the right side. For now, Bing is including over 500,000 songs in its lyrics catalog and expects that list to grow as people use it.

WatZatSong

WatZatSong is a social site where you can upload an audio recording of a song or record yourself by humming. Members of the site will try to identify the song for you.

Many music apps and services are great at identifying songs, but they can’t always fulfill all of your requests. This is especially true if you have an unfamiliar song or it is a rare one.

Another option is to ask around on a forum for help. Often, you will get better responses if you ask on a forum that is full of people who love music.

WatZatSong is a popular forum that is used by music lovers all over the world. It’s also a good place to ask if you are having trouble finding song lyrics. Posting a snippet of the song and/or describing it as well as you can will often result in faster response times.

Reddit

Reddit is a social news and content rating site founded in 2005. Users post things that others ‘upvote’ or ‘downvote’ and these posts move up the rankings, so more people can see them.

The website is split into millions of smaller forums – called subreddits – where people can discuss anything they like. It is one of the most popular websites in the world with 542m people visiting every month.

To join, you need to have an account with a username and password. You can set up more than one username and log in with them depending on which subreddits you want to be a part of.

Before posting, read through the subreddit’s rules and make sure you comply with them. These will help make the subreddit a safe place for askers and helpers to work together, and they’ll prevent the place from filling up with spam. This will keep it from getting cluttered and annoying for everyone involved.