SkreemR

Craig Wilkinson, solutions architect in London, talks about why he can't live without SkreemR.

SkreemR, a free MP3 search engine that points people to songs that are sold or hosted elsewhere, is a wonderful site! It works great. I ask it to find me a tune, and it usually does. I use it about two or three times a week, mostly to look for one-hit wonders. Because people have posted all sorts of weird music online, SkreemR can also find lots of obscure songs out of the six million MP3 files it says it has currently indexed. I was surprised to find Little Barrie, a band from the U.K.

I was turned on to SkreemR two years ago by a buddy. I was having a party one night, and a girl asked me if I had a certain song. I have a pretty large music collection and listen to just about any kind that I enjoy, but I didn’t have that song. Sure enough, SkreemR found it, and we just played old favorites off the Web site for the rest of the night. I was getting lots of other requests, too, and using SkreemR let me access songs I never would have kept around otherwise.

I make sure to spread the word about how fantastic SkreemR is and wouldn’t change a thing about it except maybe to reduce the ads on the site. But I understand the developers need to try to make money somehow.