Sometimes you just really need to hear a song. Something reminds you of an old song you know, a new article references a new artist… Previously I used one of the music stores like iTunes or Amazon's MP3 downloads, but that only gets you 30 second clips.Seeqpod gives you more. The whole song in fact. It's basically an MP3 search engine that has a really nice, high-quality index of songs and let's you play the files directly in the search results window. You can even create a playlist of songs if you want to use it as a basic media player.
The down side is that there's no easy way to get to the source file. The UI is all done in Flash, so right-click doesn't have the "save to disk" option. But they do show the full URL to the file (albeit in an unreadable, uncopyable state), so all you need to do is practice your typing skills and manually copy the URL.
Other music search engines: BeeMP3, Skreemr, Songza.
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