SoundHound 3.1 Allows Users to “Hound” that Song Even Faster;

Adds Four New User-Requested Features Including Industry’s First Pandora Radio Integration

Launches New Website and $4.99 Promotional Price

SAN JOSE, California – January 27, 2010 – SoundHound today announced the launch of SoundHound 3.1 which introduces the industry’s first integration of Pandora radio stations based on any song or artist identified by SoundHound’s instant music search and discovery application on iPhone.  In addition, the new version enables instant searching upon startup and faster responsiveness so users can “Hound” that song even faster.  Users can also now access artist tour date information in search results.

Existing users of SoundHound for iPhone will receive the 3.1 upgrade free of charge.  For new users, SoundHound 3.1 carries a limited-time introductory price of $4.99 in the US (and comparable prices internationally), over 25 percent off of the regular price for version 3.0.

Today SoundHound also launched the company’s new website www.sound-hound.com .  You can find informative demo videos here: www.sound-hound.com/index.php?action=s.videos.

This significant update to SoundHound includes instant lyrics, artist info, full iPod integration, and SoundHound’s exclusive Underplayed chart. SoundHound 3.1 now adds:

-       Pandora station launching (US only): An industry first, SoundHound now includes links to launch Pandora radio stations based on any song or artist.

-       Tour Dates: SoundHound expands its supercharged artist info to include tour dates.  Now, users can see where their new favorite artist is performing and when – in addition to the artist’s top songs, bio, similar artists, and YouTube videos.

-       Instant listening on startup: Now, users can set SoundHound to start listening immediately after launching to get results as quickly as possible. (iPhone Settings… SoundHound… Listen on start.)  It’s a user-requested addition to the world’s fastest, most versatile music identifier, which can source a song playing from a speaker in as little as four seconds, and even works on sung or hummed searches.

-       Even better responsiveness: SoundHound 3.1 has been optimized to return results even faster than before when searching immediately after opening the app.

“We have a very active user community and we’re delighted to be able to incorporate their suggestions resulting in four new features for SoundHound version 3.1,” said Keyvan Mohajer, SoundHound’s Chief Executive Officer.  “We’re committed to providing the most complete and easiest to use music service to our user so we can continue to lead in instant music search and discovery.”

Happy Holidays to our users, our friends, and our families.  This has been one of the greatest years for Midomi SoundHound and we couldn’t have done it without YOU!

To get you in the mood for the holidays, here are some staff picks.  Enjoy!

• yschmidt sings a classic, Feliz Navidad
• Never going out of style, dkclee sings Frosty the Snowman.
• Jen0688 recorded I’ll Be Home for Christmas
• XXena sings Jingle Bells

- Catherine

Melodis offers an alternative to Shazam with their app called SoundHound. SoundHound does everything that Shazam does and more.

Upon launching SoundHound, you are greeted with a simple and easy to use GUI. The main screen offers you options to “Tap Here” to identify a current song, or you can press “Title or Artist” to speak an artist, or song title into your phone or, search with text. There are also 3 menus at the bottom of the app that include; History (displays your recent searches), Whats Hot (displays what people are searching most for), Now Playing (this menu will show you what song you are currently playing from SoundHound).

One of the coolest features I have seen so far is that when you press the “Tap Here” for “What’s that song?” you can even hum the song that you know and SoundHound will find the song for you (considering you are humming the right song).

An even cooler feature, if SoundHound finds a song that is in your library as well, it will have an iPod icon next to the song so you can hear it from your own library.

Official SoundHound Feature list from Melodis:

• Just hold your iPhone up to a speaker, and SoundHound names the tune in as little as five seconds!
• It even works if you sing or hum the melody, or if you do it while an iPod song plays – no more title or artist confusion for your iPod songs.
• Instant lyrics and lyrics text search for most songs – whether you find the song with SoundHound or have it in your iPod.
• The world’s first ever combined “My Music” and online search: when your SoundHound search results match a song in your iPod library, you’ll see an iPod icon right there to play your own version.
• Charts of the hottest songs, just grabbed songs, and SoundHound’s much-anticipated“Underplayed” list.
• Groundbreaking new design with instant access to previews, bios, top songs and YouTube videos.
• Sharing on email, Facebook and Twitter.

New Features:

• See lyrics for most songs
• Play the song right from your iPod if you already have it
• See lyrics, bios and more for any iPod song
• See top songs for the artist, and which ones you already own on your iPod
• Buy the song in iTunes
• Share it over email, Facebook, or Twitter
• Check out the whole album, or the artist – including a bio, photos, similar artists, and top songs
• Play a free preview or youTube videos without leaving SoundHound

Now I have tried out SoundHound and found it to be a feature rich and easy to use app to identify songs. I personally love the hum the song feature. I do recommend SoundHound to anyone who wants something better than Shazam and is willing to spend the money.

*Entire review taken from tekgoblin.com

@Melodis will be rocking out with many professionals tonight in San Francisco. It’s not too late to get your tickets! We are giving out free tickets on twitter.com/Sound_Hound!

Tech professionals by day, rockers by night — on December 9 at the Great American Music Hall, they’ll pick up their instruments and venture onto the big stage to let their alter egos shine… for a good cause and the love of music. Silicon Valley Rocks 2009 will bring together the Valley’s tech community — from VCs and entrepreneurs to bloggers and software developers — to raise money for Music in Schools Today (MuST).

Go to svrocks.com for more information.  We’ll be tweeting from the event so don’t forget to follow @Sound_Hound and @Melodis on Twitter!

Here’s the lineup (taken from svrocks.com)

Evening’s Schedule (approximately)
The evening will be emceed by KFOG’s own Renee Richardson and Alison Murdock, founder and producer of Silicon Valley Rocks.

7:00 – Doors with mood music provided by theMIXagency

7:30 - FAREWELL TYPEWRITER — melodic rock music that’s energetic yet tight, dancey but tough. Tech Affiliations:Hewlett-Packard and Thing Labs (makers of Brizzly).

8:00 - MARROW — electronica/dance beats guaranteed to make you move your gloomy ass. Tech Affiliations: Pyramind Studios and the “sflogicninja” of YouTube fame.

8:30 -THE TELL-TALE HEARTBREAKERS — tearing through the post-punk music scene with tense, guitar and bass-driven songs that reflect the darker side of rock and roll. Tech Affiliations: PDI/DreamWorks.

9:00 - THE OPEN SOURCE BAND — featuring Jonah Matranga (lead singer of Far); Randi Zuckerberg (Facebook) and Alison Murdock — a Silicon Valley Rocks! special freely available for your listening pleasure. Tech Affiliations: Facebook, Norwest Venture Partners, Walden Venture Capital and Amplified Music Services.

9: 30 - THE WHITEHALLS — from straight-ahead rockers to political drama to crowd-pleasing ballads to electronica, this band covers all the bases. Tech Affiliations:Digg.com, Aldon (software), IT for Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco, Bite PR.

10:00 - CORINNE MARCUS & THE KINDRED SPIRITS — catchy and intriguing with hints of Lilith, pop, rock and lounge. Tech Affiliations: Walden Venture Capital and Digidesign.

We just released the new version of the app, now title SoundHound.  It is truly amazing! Here are some comments from users!

dannyrodri Seriously the new midomi soundhound is Amazing! It is definetely replacing Shazam on my homepage.http://twitpic.com/s136g

houtany Midomi SoundHound for iPhone is a fricken sweet app, puts shazam to shazame.

ign74 Esta genial la app Soundhound de midomi..con esta actualizacion han añadido un monton de cosas utiles..

JustiPhoneBlog: Freaking Huge iPhone App Update: Midomi SoundHound 3.0: http://bit.ly/8imG10

pressf1biz Very impressed with Midomi’s Soundhound app for iPhone/touch. Way more features than you can shake a Shazaam stick at!

Gadget_Sage Midomi 3.0 seeks song lyrics, knows what’s hot: Midomi changes names to SoundHound in version 3.0, and adds a slew … http://bit.ly/5T0V8R

Available in the iTunes app store.  For users that have midomi already, you can upgrade to SoundHound free!

Mashable announced the 5 finalists per category in the Open Web Awards: Social Media Edition today and Midomi made it! The is “Mashable’s annual contest highlighting the very best the social web has to offer.” (Pete Cashmore). The votes are limited to one vote per category per day- so this means you can vote for Midomi once a day until December 13th!

There were 80,000+ nominees and we are grateful to be one of 5 in the category for ‘Best Mobile Music Site or App’.  Please pass on the word and vote. You will need to be connected to Twitter or Facebook account in order to vote. Just click the blue icon below.

Many thanks again for our nomination from all of us here @Melodis!

What does AT&T, Qualcomm, Samsung, and R/GA all have in common? They will be judging Melodis at the upcoming “Under the Radar” event being held on the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View, CA on November 19, 2009.  Under the Radar brings startups, press, investors- basically super important and influential people in the industry together for this one day event.

Melodis has been selected to present our innovative technology, Sound2Sound Search Technology and our very own CEO Keyvan Mohajer will be there! Keyvan will speak about MELODIS’ mission on making sound and speech the preferred means to search and navigate information on mobile or IP connected devices.  AT&T and Qualcomm, among others, will be judging Melodis on being the most cutting edge mobile startup!   Want to attend and show your support? Click here fore more info.

Also there are only 3 days left to nominate Midomi Ultra! Nominations close November 15th and you can vote once a day until then!

Have an Android? Well now you can download the Midomi app.  Just hold your phone up to a speaker and Midomi names the tune in seconds! Song stuck in your head? Sing or hum the melody! You can also check out songs and artists by typing or saying the name.

The Android version has many great features including:

* The ability to view YouTube videos

* Bookmark your favorite songs

* Share a song or artist on Twitter

* Buy songs straight on your Android via Amazon

Also be sure to check out lyrics, artist/ song info and much more!

Go to Market on your phone and search for “Midomi”.

Don’t have an Android and still want Midomi? Check out our mobile page for a list of compatible devices here.

We take things pretty seriously here at Melodis- midomi.com and Midomi Mobile’s headquarters.  What better way of celebrating Halloween than to have a costume contest?

Just click on the big blue icon below and nominate Midomi Ultra! Nominations close November 14th and you can vote once a day until then! Help Midomi become a nominee in the category of ‘Best Music Site or App’ for Mashable’s 3RD Annual Open Web Awards. Voting takes a whole 8.5 seconds (I timed myself) if you have a Facebook or Twitter account. Thanks again!