Monday, April 12, 2010

Creating A (Virtual) Free Bollywood MP3 Download Website

 

My niece enjoys Indian takes and Indian film music. To her, every bit to nigh of the earth, this exuberant, colorful, warm and just-plain-fun musical style is added up in one word: Bollywood.

 

I profess that I've become taken with Bollywood every bit well, though not to the said extent equally my niece, who owns a amount of Indian movies and on a regular basis lets others. The Bollywood happy is so bad that I experience to throttle myself to checking those a couple of of its yields that gurgle up to view the tending of American movie commentators. Otherwise I imparted be lost in Indian ocean of unacquainted with movie titles, doers and actresses.

 

My niece likewise compiles CDs of Bollywood music. There's an Asian commercialize almost her place that offers a cornucopia of them. Only she has the same problem choosing 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 as to whether a careful CD's strains and creative people are ones she will enjoy.

 

At her invite, I set up a fashion for her to preview a variety of Bollywood strains and even to live with them on her iPod for a while, all for Outstanding. This room she can make knowing decisions about which CDs she ultimately purchases.

 

First, I searched for Indian medicine 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 equally Bollywood world and India FM.


Last.fm is a highly popular music site which lets users create paid and free accounts. Account holders can stream popular music online with ease. Whilst free music streaming is possible, saving music to one’s hard drive is not. To record Last.fm music streams as mp3 audio files, Last Recorder can be employed.



Last Recorder is a tiny freeware compatible with Windows and Ubuntu operating systems. The Windows version is nearly 7MB large and requires no installation. Just simply download and run the 7MB exe file. Then we feed the program our Last.fm username plus password. Once logged in, click the red recording button; consequently all songs we stream will be saved by the program in the mp3 audio format.


The mp3 files can be tagged separately (type in the tags within the program) according to the filename we want it to have. Additionally we can choose to strip the filename of characters which Windows does not recognize. Last Recorder can also be configured to skip already recorded streams.



Main features:



  • Freeware.

  • Compatible with Windows and Ubuntu.

  • User friendly interface.

  • Can add ID3 tags (artist, album, title) to audio files.

  • Can strip whitespaces and Windows-incompatible characters from file names.

  • Can automatically skip already recorded streams.

  • Remembers last used station and other settings.

  • Similar tools: Fire.fm, PWNLast.fm, YouScrobble and also see our article “3 Easy Tools to Record Streaming Music as MP3 Files”.


Get LastRecorder @ www.timka.org/lastrecorder



Music helps the weary exerciser work harder and, according to a hacker named Steve, the louder the music the more vigorously you work. So, he grabbed a motion sensor and an DIY MP3 player, stuffed them both into a disused French Vanilla Cafe coffehouse beverage drink container (ooh, la la), then wired the works together to pump out the jams louder when you're really burning those calories -- or to get quieter when you stop for a breather. It's all fearlessly demonstrated in a video after the break featuring Steve, a jump rope, and a little bit of Bono. Make sure you stay through the credits for a deleted scene!



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 every bit 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 place, cannot be saved or downloaded. New computer 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 package incorporates something called an mp3 splitter. This software package is able to break the audio stream into part mp3 song files. By the right smart, this is dead legal, because you're simply reading a broadcast, the said equally when you phonograph record a TV show on your VHS. Voila -- we had the second half of our solution.

 

Between the audio streams and splitter/reading software system, we produced our own real Bollywood mp3 download sites.

 

Now whenever my niece is in a humour to research the latest tuneful offerings from Bollywood, she snaps on her favorite Indian-medicine Internet radio send, then starts the showing software program. Pretty soon she has enough Bollywood mp3s to shuffle complete for the rest of the week, and she's almost guaranteed to find two or three that will spur her to give a trip to the CD bin behind at the Asian stock.

 

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