Monday, April 12, 2010

Creating A (Virtual) Independent Bollywood MP3 Download Internet Site

 

My niece knows Indian films and Indian film medicine. To her, every bit to almost of the reality, this rich, colorful, romantic and just-plain-fun genre is summed up in one word: Bollywood.

 

I squeal that I've went taken with Bollywood as well, though non to the one extent every bit my niece, who holds a amount of Indian pictures and on a regular basis tears others. The Bollywood happy is so shot that I take to restrict myself to seeing those hardly a of its products that gurgle up to get the attending of American movie referees. Otherwise I would be lost in Indian ocean of unfamiliar movie titles, workers and actresses.

 

My niece as well gathers CDs of Bollywood medicine. There's an Asian grocery near her family that provides a cornucopia of them. Only she has the identical problem preferring CDs to buy that I do decisive which Bollywood movie Crataegus oxycantha be worth my time. Unless she's seen the film from which a soundtrack derives, she's usually in the dark equally to whether a sure CD's vocals and artists are ones she will enjoy.

 

At her invite, I set up a room for her to preview a form of Bollywood songs and even to live with them on her iPod for a while, all for Loose. This style she can establish educated 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 (as opposed, say, to classical Indian ragas). I found several good ones, with names such every bit Bollywood earth and India FM.




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.






Maybe it’s an intro to a song you don’t really like, or a hidden track you’d rather not be included on your MP3. Or maybe you just want to isolate one part of your favorite podcast. Whatever the reason, sometimes you want to cut an MP3 down to size.


You could download or purchase a dedicated program for this, but use CutMP3 and you can get the job done quickly from your browser. This flash-based web app is different than most in that your data is never actually uploaded to another server – everything happens locally.



Simply point the site towards the MP3 you want to bring down to size, and the web app will analyze it. You’ll now be able to pick a new start and end time for the MP3, and even preview what the changes you made will sound like. That’s all you can do with this simple web app, but if that’s all you need it’ll work great.


Features



  • Edit any MP3 file online.

  • Cut anything from the beginning or end of the file.

  • Data never uploaded; everything happens locally.

  • Flash-based.

  • Only compatible with MP3 files.

  • Similar apps: Mp3Cut, MakeMyRingtone and also see recent MakeUseOf article, 10 Websites For Free Mobile Phone Ringtones & Downloads.


Check out CutMP3 @ www.cutmp3.net (via DownloadSquad)


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

 

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

 

Even better, some of the newest audio capture software program incorporates something called an mp3 splitter. This software system is able to break the audio stream into break mp3 song files. By the fashion, this is perfectly legal, because you're simply putting down a broadcast, the identical equally when you tape a TV show on your VHS. Voila -- we experienced the second half of our solution.

 

Between the audio streams and splitter/recording software program, we produced our own living Bollywood mp3 download sites.

 

Now whenever my niece is in a humor to explore the latest tuneful offerings from Bollywood, she penetrates on her favorite Indian-medicine Internet radio station, then starts the reading computer software. Pretty soon she has enough Bollywood mp3s to shuffle over for the rest of the calendar week, and she's almost secured to find two or three that will spur her to give a travel to the CD bin down at the Asian shop.

 

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