Search over 15 million songs with Worry About You
It’s hard to take a site called Worry About You seriously, especially when they claim that their search engine will direct to you to over 15 million songs. In an attempt to overlook the bizarre name choice, we’re just going to refer to it as WAY from now on because Worry About You is possibly the most irrelevant Web 2.0 name in history.
Despite the fact that they might be prone to exaggeration and might need a lesson or two in brand marketing, the site works pretty well. We tried a bunch of different searches, from obscure eighties one-hit wonders to every cover of Wild Horses we could lay our hands on and WAY always delivered.
They give you the choice between streaming the song or downloading it, not that we’re encouraging the latter. The site follows in the footsteps of countless other web-based mp3 search engines that are anything but legal, but it doesn’t really differ much from its predecessors, apart from offering the service in six languages.
Even though the Justice Department has approved the XM / Sirius merger and the FCC’s approval is all but sure to follow, those pesky fools at NAB just won’t go down without a fight — the organization is demanding that FCC’s approval be postponed until certain documents are turned over by the agency. NAB says the paperwork shows “apparent wrongdoing” by Sirius and XM officials in including FM transmitters in radios and terrestrial repeaters, and it met with FCC officials on Tuesday to make its claim. There’s no word on how effective any of this is going to be, but we’ll give it to NAB for being tenacious, at least — now please, go away.
There has always been a debate between audiophiles regarding downloadable music. Part of the camp claims that downloaded music will never sound as good as music purchased on a CD. Regardless, you can’t deny the convenience of buying music online. Famed loudspeaker manufacture Bowers & Wilkins hopes to change the quality of downloadable music with the launch of the B&W Music Club. 
We’ve seen some pretty hot DAB radios make the scene, but consumers just haven’t greeted the tech with any kind of enthusiasm — which is why the UK’s Digital Radio Working Group recently suggested that FM services be shut off starting in 2012, with complete shut-off to occur by 2020. According to the group’s report, only 17.8 percent of radio listening is digital, and the chances of finding a DAB radio in a car (where 20 percent of all UK radio listening is done) is less than 1 in 200. The DRWG says that the switchover to DAB will take three steps: first, a commitment to the tech by the government and industry, with radios being made multiplatform and able to receive all the flavors of DAB; second, a massive promotional campaign; and third, switchoff of FM, which is optimistically scheduled to begin in 2012. That’s certainly one way to get people to buy new radios — but unlike the switch to digital TV, we don’t see anyone being too put out by having to listen to their MP3 players in the car instead of FM radio.
