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Lisa deBettencourt:

> So, won't it be great the day that you're driving along jammin out to some
> great new tune playing on one of your favorite radio stations and you can
> press the "Buy Now" button on your FM radio?

That day has been here a while. For instance:

<http://www.relatable.com/>

There are multiple companies working on this, approaching it from various
directions: embedded in the radio or via mobile devices like PDAs, USB
keychain-like devices and cellphones. They generally rely on a large
database of acoustic fingerprints against which a small sample is compared.
Lookup in a digital music store for download is a trivial matter once the
song is identified.

Ziya
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