Monday, April 12, 2010

Producing A (Virtual) Independent Bollywood MP3 Download Web Site

 

My niece loves Indian films and Indian film music. To her, as to almost of the reality, this easy, colorful, attached and just-plain-fun musical style is resumed up in one word: Bollywood.

 

I confess that I've gone taken with Bollywood equally well, though not to the identical extent as my niece, who features a issue of Indian moving pictures and regularly tears others. The Bollywood well is so bad that I have to restrict myself to watching those few of its products that ripple up to catch the care of American movie commentators. Otherwise I leaved be lost in Indian ocean of unknown movie titles, actors and actresses.

 

My niece likewise collects CDs of Bollywood music. There's an Asian commercialize good her home that provides a cornucopia of them. But she has the identical problem taking CDs to buy that I do fatal which Bollywood movie Crataegus laevigata be worth my time. Unless she's seen the film from which a soundtrack derives, she's usually in the dark every bit to whether a particular CD's strains and artists are ones she will enjoy.

 

At her invite, I set up a style for her to preview a variety of Bollywood vocals and even to live with them on her iPod for a while, all for Outstanding. This right smart she can give informed decisions about which CDs she ultimately purchases.

 

First, I searched for Indian music Web sites, and specifically for those devoted to Bollywood, or at least modern popular music (equally opposed, say, to classical Indian ragas). I found several good ones, with names such every bit Bollywood reality and India FM.



Online resources for discovering and downloading new music appear to be endless. And once you have discovered one that has everything you want, it’s gone. They come and go like the seasons. Some are legal, most are not.


The best way to keep up with the latest single or album releases, tour dates, and the hottest new bands are social music networks.


Here is a website that focuses entirely on what’s hot right now and where to get cool new tunes for free.



Muzic


We tune in and analyze this tidal wave of musical conversation to help you find songs, artists, and music bloggers that you want to know about. We want to help you discover new artists you’ll support in the future.


Sound good? Let’s have a look at how Muzic works.


Browsing for music…


When you’re not logged in the start page shows a tag cloud of “artists happening now”, i.e. artists that have a lot of free stuff out now. You can zoom over to “songs happening now” and “bloggers on our radar” by clicking the small buttons at the bottom of the tag cloud.



Muzic lets you search for artists, songs, or bloggers. But to discover new bands, “popular tags” or “songs by genre” are a better starting point.



The results page is a list of posts that match your query. Posts are created by the bloggers that provide the free MP3 downloads. Each post contains details about the song and a link back to the the site where it was posted originally.



Click on the song name to launch the song’s card, which contains some more information, as well as lists of more songs from the same blog and all songs from that artist below the card.


Downloading mp3s…


Once you found an interesting song, click > Get Song in its bottom left. You will be redirected to the original source. Muzic will stay with you though, as it is minimized to a small bar at the top of the page.



Now you can either download the song from the respective blog or from Muzic’s top navigation bar. If you decide for Muzic, > right-click the green > Download MP3 button and select > Save Link As… from the menu. Now select a destination and you’re ready to save the song.


To return to Muzic, click the << back link in its navigation bar at the top.


In case an artist uploaded a song to Muzic, you can directly download the MP3 from the respective song card. Uploaded songs can also be “previewed”, i.e. listened to in full through the Muzic player, which launches in a separate frame at the bottom of the page.



The community…


When you’re logged in you can add songs to your faves, follow other listeners or artists that have uploaded songs, and update your profile.



In all honesty, the profile features and community aspects are a little underdeveloped. Unless I missed out on something important, there is no real exchange between users. You can see what others added as their faves and follow them, but that’s about it. On the other hand that isn’t too bad. After all, you’re in for the latest free music and not for even more distractions.


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What are you listening to these days?


Image credits: CMSeter











This Smooth, Polished Rock Is Actually A Coby MP3 Player





Has Coby dared go down the same route as Apple, by releasing an MP3 player sans controls? It's not clear how the Micro player works, but judging by the lack of buttons it'd appear the controls are in the headphones.


I do like the design though, and as it's Coby it'll probably be dirt cheap too. Inside, 2GB of storage will hold your choons, and it can be connected to your PC via USB. Battery life is just five hours, via the Lithium Polymer battery. No word on when this mysterious little device will launch, nor for how much. [Coby via Chip Chick via Geeky-Gadgets]







Send an email to Kat Hannaford, the author of this post, at khannaford@gizmodo.com.





nearly of the Web sites I found offered song samples, meaning 30-second or 1-minute snippets. Some experienced full audio streams that allowed the visitor to listen to continuous Bollywood music for as long equally she or he might want. It was these latter that provided the first half of our solution.

 

Normally, streaming audio, such equally what you hear over an Internet radio post, cannot be saved or downloaded. New software package, though, makes it possible to tape the stream to your hard drive for replaying equally often as you like.

 

Even better, some of the newest audio capture computer software incorporates something called an mp3 splitter. This software is able to break the audio stream into separate mp3 song files. By the style, this is absolutely legal, because you're simply reading a broadcast, the said as when you phonograph record a TV show on your VHS. Voila -- we taken the second half of our solution.

 

Between the audio streams and splitter/putting down computer software, we produced our own real Bollywood mp3 download sites.

 

Now whenever my niece is in a mood to search the latest tuneful offerings from Bollywood, she clicks on her favorite Indian-music Internet radio post, then starts the showing software system. Pretty soon she has enough Bollywood mp3s to shuffle over for the rest of the week, and she's almost undertaken to find two or three that will spur her to have a stumble to the CD bin behind at the Asian fund.

 

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