You can search YouTube using sound. By humming or recording a song that's currently being played, you can find related YouTube videos, Shorts, and official music content.

In 1964, the American music duo Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel released a song titled The Sound of Silence. Garfunkel, one half of the duo and co-writer of the famous song, summed up the meaning of this song by stating, “this is a song about the inability of people to communicate with each other” (Patton, 2023).

Websites like Y2Mate, ytmp3, OnlyMP3, and SaveFrom.net make it quick and easy to download audio from YouTube clips. To use them, simply copy and paste the URL of the desired YouTube video into the site's search bar. Next, select MP3 as the download format, which extracts just the audio track.

audiophilia (uncountable) An interest in high fidelity sound reproduction and equipment.