Sony's TrackID music recognition service is closing down

This piece of news comes out of the blue, and Sony hasn't provided any details as to why it wants to off TrackID. Our guess would be that the music recognition software is just costing too much unjustified resources for the Japanese tech giant, but that's just a speculation at this point. The official information which is visible in the TrackID app states that “all businesses move forwards, and sometimes this means that apps are discontinued.”
Sony made sure not to leave loyal TrackID fans hanging, though, and suggested the most widely used music recognition service, Shazam, for those who are looking to migrate to another app. According to our experience, Shazam is doing a much better job of recognizing songs and ignoring background noise anyway, so you will not lose much by migrating to it.