Monday, April 12, 2010

Producing A (Virtual) Loose Bollywood MP3 Download Internet Site

 

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

 

I confess that I've become taken with Bollywood equally good, though non to the same extent equally my niece, who features a number of Indian films and on a regular basis lets others. The Bollywood good is so large that I take to restrict myself to finding those few of its yields that babble up to match the attention of American movie reviewers. Otherwise I imparted be lost in Indian ocean of unfamiliar with movie titles, workers and actresses.

 

My niece besides compiles CDs of Bollywood medicine. There's an Asian mart almost her home that cracks a cornucopia of them. Only she has the very problem preferring CDs to buy that I do decisive 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 vocals and creative people are ones she will enjoy.

 

At her request, I set up a way for her to preview a form of Bollywood strains and even to live with them on her iPod for a while, all for Absent. This fashion she can take 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 medicine (every bit opposed, say, to classical Indian ragas). I found several good ones, with names such as 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?


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Okay, I admit, this site doesn't do much. In fact, it only does one thing: it lets you trim Mp3s by dragging the beginning and end points until you have the selection you want. Of course, you can also play the mp3s to make sure you've cut them in the right places. The only issue I had with the site was that you can't zoom in and out on the waveform, so it takes some sideways scrolling to see the end of your track. (Oh, and a volume control for the player would be nice!)

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 every bit long as 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, though, makes it possible to phonograph record the stream to your hard drive for replaying equally often as you like.

 

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

 

Between the audio streams and splitter/taping software package, we made our own primary Bollywood mp3 download sites.

 

Now whenever my niece is in a mood to research the latest tuneful offerings from Bollywood, she clicks on her favorite Indian-medicine Internet radio post, then starts the showing computer software. Pretty soon she has enough Bollywood mp3s to shuffle complete for the rest of the workweek, and she's almost insured to find two or three that will spur her to have a trigger to the CD bin set at the Asian stock.

 

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