Abstract: Techniques are provided herein for selecting and transmitting snippets from a messaging application. A “snippet” refers to an audio segment of a song that is less than the whole of the song. A user may request to view various audio segments (e.g., by category, by search, etc.) corresponding to portions of respective songs via a user interface of the messaging application. In some embodiments, an audio segment can be selected and metadata associated with that particular audio segment may be transmitted to another computing device where the audio segment can be played (e.g., streamed). In this manner, these snippets can be employed by the user to enhance their chat or texting conversation.