Thursday, October 29, 2009

Is There a Flickr for Audio?

I have a new phone.  It runs that new Google juice called Android, and for the most part I think it's pretty neat.  It is, among other things, the first time I have owned a computer that I talk to, instead of just through:



I press that little microphone on the right, I say "DC like a local" and it gives me a link to Tim's blog.  More often than not, this is quite a bit faster than typing a search query, and I'm starting to take a shine to it.  The whole experience isn't optimized for speech in the same way it is on Star Trek, but I can see that coming eventually.

This, among other things, got me thinking about the manifold uses for small snippets of audio.  I decided I'd like to use a website that allows me to easily (preferably via an Android app) record, upload, tag, share, string-together, rate, geotag, edit, arrange, taxonomize, ontologize, and generally use small snippets of audio.

The way Flickr lets me do with pictures.

I started asking people who are smarter than me where I could find such a service, and while there were plenty of you-might-be-able-to-make-Google-Wave-do-that kind of answers, this conversation didn't result in you're any oh-you-must-mean-xxxxx type of answers.

So, Internet, I put it to you: what is Flickr for audio?

Answering "iTunes" results in lost karma, and anyone teasing me about still not having a Google Wave account will be summarily invited to suck on a lemon.  Possibly in all caps.  With exclamation points.

Comments:
If you were to consider audio snippets to be a degenerate form of video snippets, then maybe Flickr would be the Flickr for this purpose? or Youtube? (Though I recall that Flickr's video snippets had to be shorter than 30s.)
 
You make a good point. Unfortunately neither will even accept my audio in an audio format (eg without any accompanying pictures). At least that much I get from itunes...
 
If FLICKR is for photos (and it should have been FLMINGO), then CROW is for audio...
 
If you had a Google Wave account you'd know the answer
 
Got the Wave, finally. Still don't "get" the Wave, unfortunately.
 
Do you know about Huffduffer? It's for bookmarking, not storage, but still seems like something you might want to know about.
 
Jodi, looks interesting, and I didn't know about it. Definitely the closest I've seen so far, though still strange not to have found a storage/editing component, a la Flickr. 'Course, Huffduffer looks like it's got the rest (tagging, sharing, etc.). Thanks!
 
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