There are plenty of music recognition services out there that will listen to a bit of the track and then provide you with suggestions about what the track you’re listening to might be called. Shazam is certainly one of the most popular services for music recognition out there. You may not be aware that Sony has been operating a similar service called TrackID that’s now nearing its end. Sony has confirmed that it’s shutting down the TrackID music recognition service.

TrackID was primarily being used by those who owned a Sony smartphone because the service came pre-loaded on their handsets. It offered a decent set of features which included digging up information about a track, enabling users to watch the artist’s videos, check biographies of the artists, and even save the music they discovered to Spotify.

Sony is now showing an in-app notice to TrackID users informing them that the service will be shut down on September 15th. The company doesn’t really provide a concrete reason for this move, only saying that “all businesses move forwards, and sometimes this means that apps are discontinued.”

Those who have used TrackID to discover songs should keep in mind that all user data will be deleted on September 15th. This means that users will have to manually save their discoveries elsewhere since there’s no option in the app to export saved tracks.

What should users do now that Sony is going to shut down this service? The company itself is recommending that they should opt for Shazam.

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