Using Yes.com To Identify Music
Say you’re cruising along in your ‘57 Chevy, listening to the local too cool for school station spinning the hits when you hear the grooviest tune ever but you miss the DJ’s intro so you don’t know the name of the song or the artist. And the gang at the malt shop were pumping nickels into the jukebox so no one there can name that tune. Bummer, eh?
Well, don’t sweat it, Daddy-O, all is not lost.
At the next opportunity (any time within the seven days of the song being played), you and Suzy Q make the scene at Yes.com on the intenet dial, plug in your zip code, and get the list of local stations. It might look something like this:
Click on your station, and you see your very own hit parade of songs (and commercials, for that matter) played at that station with a timeline.
Match the time and date your new fave played, and you are, in a word, hep.
If you really dig the song, you can plonk down your virtual coins on the link to buy it from iTunes or Amazon.com.
Yes.com also does other tricks.
You can search not only by Zip Code, but also by Station Call Letters, Station Frequency, Station Nickname, or Artist. If the ratio station offers streaming, you can listen to what’s happening now. If you are a registered member (free registration), you can bookmark and rate a song by calling 888-YES-8888. That song is then added to your personal listing, and you can check it out later.
Cool Beans.
