Music-loving dudes should get MSN 7.5. Yeah. It kicks ass. Not only can you set it to show what’s playing on Winamp (and Windows Media Player), you can also stream whatever’s playing through Voice Clips.

To start, you need to route your Recording Device to whatever’s playing; double-click your Volume Control, and click the Options menu then click Properties. The Properties window should pop up; choose to Adjust volume for Recording. Look for Stereo Mix, Wave Out Mix or What-U-Hear, tick that and press OK. Then, click on the Select checkbox under the Stereo Mix, Wave Out Mix or What-U-Hear. Your microphone will now “hear” every sound that plays on your computer!

Now for the fun part – guess that song! Play a song, then find a music fan, hold down the F2 key (or click Voice Clip) and it will record up to 15 seconds of low-quality audio, and then sends it to your chat buddy. It’s quite impractical for guitar unless your foot presses the mouse button or F2 key. 🙁

The best part of it is, you can replay it (hmmm what is that song?) and save it! Sure, we could just use it for voice, but who is unabashed enough to use MSN as a walkie talkie when people are around? It might be better than Audio Chat because you don’t need to wait for a connection to be established.

See I’m all fun and games on MSN. Guess which song my nickname came from! Beat me at MSN Games’ Solitaire Showdown or Minesweeper Flags! Guess that song snippet!

Or, if you’re not on MSN, guess where these lyrics came from:
Nothing really mattered to me
Nothing really matters to me
Nothing else matters
Nothing matters no one else
Nothing matters now