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source: marlvel.ai
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content_version: "v2"
section_slug: "sentiment"
section_label: "User Sentiment"
section_anchor: "#user-sentiment"
app_name: "SoundHound - Music Discovery"
bundle_id: "com.melodis.soundhound.free"
parent_report: "https://marlvel.ai/api/llm/apps/music/soundhound-music-discovery"
canonical_url: "https://marlvel.ai/apps/soundhound-music-discovery#user-sentiment"
license: CC-BY-NC-4.0
citation: "Marlvel.ai — SoundHound - Music Discovery User Sentiment (section of intelligence report)"
---

## 🔴 User Sentiment (High Confidence: 100 of 104 reviews analyzed) {#user-sentiment}
- **Overall Rating:** 3.93/5
- **Platform Split:** iOS 4.8/5 (180.8K ratings) | Android 3.7/5 (920K ratings)
- **Overall Sentiment:** Upset

### Top Praises
- **Historical reliability of the song identification engine kept users engaged for nearly a decade**

### Top Complaints (Impact Areas)
- **Post-update technical failures prevent song identification and cause frequent application crashes for users**
- **Aggressive and inappropriate advertisements block core functionality and degrade the user experience significantly**

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