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With over 50 M audio files available, Yahoo! Audio Search is the most comprehensive audio search product on the Web. Now you can find, learn about and listen to a diverse selection of audio spanning popular and hard to find music, interviews, speeches, newscasts, podcasts, and even sound effects.

Now you can easily find the latest songs from Beck and Green Day with a list of the services that offer their songs for download as well as speeches and podcasts from the likes of Martin Luther King and Colin Powell

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No problem. Yahoo! Audio Search includes audio from and information about a wide range of audio publishers. You can, of course find information about top hip-hop musicians like Usher but also, stand-up comedians, like Margaret Cho, cool sound effects, like horror screams, and all types of audio that has been submitted directly by less mainstream producers.

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Put simply, podcasts are radio-style shows - some from major media, others from passionate independent producers - delivered over the Web to your computer. Unlike streaming audio, which requires you to listen in real time, podcasting lets you control how and when you hear your favorite shows.

In fact, once you subscribe to a podcast (and as long as you have the right software installed) you will automatically get new episodes downloaded directly to your computer.

Podcasts cover a wide range of topics. For example, you may be interested in searching for podcasts from the "father of podcasting" Adam Curry. Or, you may be a classical music enthusiast who would love to have access to podcasts that offer discussions about and music from classical musicians. Whatever interests you have, there is a podcast out there to listen to.

Click here to learn more about podcasting.

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Yahoo! Audio Search is available at: http://audio.search.yahoo.com/. U2, Bill Clinton, Colin Powell and Adam Sandler are waiting to be heard.

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It is really easy. Just click the "Save to My Web Button" below the audio result you wish to save. A small window will appear where you can add any information so you never forget what you saved and, even better, why you saved it.

For those of you who prefer order to chaos, you can also organize your audio searches into folders so that similar audio searches are grouped together.

And because these are all saved to My Web, you can easily access these results from any computer.

So all those audio results for Adam Sandler can be saved and organized to your Comedy folder to ensure hours of laughing pleasure anytime anywhere.

Click here to learn more about My Web

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Yahoo! Audio Search offers a variety of ways to search. Weather you are looking for a particular song, podcast, interview or speech you can simply enter the information into the search box to connect you with audio information you are looking for.

For those of you who may be looking for music or podcasts, just select the music or podcast tab directly above the search results to refine your search results and find exactly what you want.

For additional information about using Audio Search click here.

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Yahoo! Audio Search brings together the best of Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! Music.

Like Yahoo! Music, Yahoo! Audio Search provides easy access to digital music downloads; But Yahoo! Audio Search looks across a collection of online music services (e.g., iTunes, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Garageband.com) and audio files on the Web and lists all places where you can download specific audio, view videos and images, read news stories and listen to podcasts related to your search.

Helpful Hint: For some results, we offer a direct link to the corresponding artist, album, or song info on Yahoo! Music.

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Yahoo! Audio Search offers audio publishers the ability to submit their content through a Media RSS submission service. You can learn more about mRSS and how to create mRSS feeds here.

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Online audio service providers sell digital audio and music downloads or streams. The files may be delivered digitally using an online software application, like a media player, or standard web browser. Some audio services include: iTunes, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Napster, and Garageband.com

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Yahoo! Audio Search Beta "Preferred Audio Service" helps you expand your audio search beyond what might be available from your existing audio service while still allowing easy access to song downloads.

Set the Preferred Audio Service preference to indicate the primary audio service that you prefer to use. When audio is available from your Audio Service, a direct access link will appear next to that result making it fast and easy to identify which tracks your music service currently offers and download that audio with a single click.

So, for example, if you are a Yahoo! Music subscriber and the song you are looking for is available from Yahoo! Music, a "Get it Now on Yahoo! Music" link will appear next to that result so you can directly access their service. If Yahoo! Music does not offer that song for download, you can visit the comparison download page to find out where you might be able to purchase that song.

Click here to see a list of all our audio providers.

To set or change "Preferred Audio Service" selection at any time, you can visit the preferences page which is located next the search box or is accessible on the Audio Download comparison page.

Note: In order to use and access this feature you must be a registered Yahoo! user and logged in at the time that you are performing your audio search.

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No problem. Each service has a "Delivery" type button. Click this button to go to the appropriate page on the audio service to help you access the audio file. Keep in mind, the service may require that you download special software and sign up for their service before you can access the file.

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The team at Yahoo! Audio Search is continuously gathering information from audio experts. This, combined with information we gather from searching across the Web, keeps us in the know about the latest happenings in the online audio space including recent music releases, newscasts, speeches and sound effects.

In addition, our Media RSS technology enables independent publishers to submit their music directly to Yahoo! Audio Search, ensuring you access to some of the most unique music content on the Web.

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