Yahoo! Cool Thing of the Day

After listening to the radio on my way in from work, I almost always end up with a new favorite song stuck in my head that I desperately need to download and cherish. Inevitably, I'll forget almost all of the relevant details by the time I get to my computer, leaving me with a vague tune, some lyrics, maybe even the artist if I'm really lucky. Yahoo! Audio Search has much made it much easier to unravel these musical mysteries by including inline 30-second samples alongside their audio search results, letting me quickly run through anything that comes up to see if it matches that fragment of a melody rattling around in my brain. For instance, I could easily sort through Linkin Park's newest songs to locate that one from the Transformers movie that they've been playing on every station for the last month ("What I've Done", for reference). The search capabilities aren't quite as flexible as I'd like -- for instance, it would be great to have an integrated lyrics search instead of needing to jump back and forth between this and our Music site -- but the fact that we've implemented at least the inline samples part is definitely music to my ears.

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