SongRec

Recognize songs from audio easily Source

Description

SongRec is an unofficial Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust. It allows you to easily recognize songs from your speakers, microphone or audio files.

Features:

Recognize audio from an arbitrary audio file.
Recognize audio from the microphone.
Usage from both GUI and command line (for the file recognition part).
Provide an history of the recognized songs on the GUI, exportable to CSV.
Continuous song detection from the microphone, with the ability to choose your input device.
Ability to recognize songs from your speakers rather than your microphone (on compatible PulseAudio setups).

Source

Notice

GTK4/libadwaita and narrow enough for mobile since 0.6.*.

Project links:

Links to (pages with) screenshots:

Screenshots

Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!

Project status: released

This project has been developed so far, that its authors felt confident enough to create a release.

The project repository was created on 2020-08-13.

The last known commit happened on 2026-03-29.
Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2026-03-31

Features

Connectivity: This app works better with a continous internet connection, but does not require it.

✔ This app is (according to its appstream metadata or description) intended to be compatible with mobile devices.

Packaging

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green: current and packaged,
red: packaged, but not current, ratings and other details may not apply.

Get it on Flathub!

Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/re.fossplant.songrec.flatpakref

Build and install your own flatpak: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marin-m/SongRec/refs/heads/master/packaging/flatpak/re.fossplant.songrec.json

If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:

Install

* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.

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Licensing and technical details

License: GPL-3.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0

Frameworks: GTK4 libadwaita

Programming languages: Rust

Build system: cargo

AppStream Metadata URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marin-m/SongRec/refs/heads/main/packaging/rootfs/usr/share/metainfo/re.fossplant.songrec.metainfo.xml