My niece knows Indian films and Indian film medicine. To her, every bit to about of the world, this galore, colorful, potty and just-plain-fun writing style is summarized up in one word: Bollywood.
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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I confess that I've become taken with Bollywood every bit well, though non to the duplicate extent every bit my niece, who features a issue of Indian movies and on a regular basis rents others. The Bollywood happy is so shot that I take to throttle myself to watching those hardly a of its yields that bubble up to see the aid of American movie referees. Otherwise I given be lost in Indian ocean of unknown movie titles, players and actresses.
My niece likewise gathers CDs of Bollywood medicine. There's an Asian food market hot her base that offers a cornucopia of them. Simply she has the duplicate problem preferring CDs to buy that I do determining 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 as to whether a careful CD's songs and artists are ones she will enjoy.
At her petition, I set up a style for her to preview a mixture of Bollywood calls and even to live with them on her iPod for a while, all for Independent. This way she can net hip 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 (equally opposed, say, to classical Indian ragas). I found several good ones, with names such as Bollywood reality and India FM.
good of the Web sites I found offered song samples, meaning 30-second or 1-minute snippets. Some made full audio streams that allowed the visitor to listen to continuous Bollywood music 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 every bit what you hear over an Internet radio post, cannot be saved or downloaded. New software package, though, makes it possible to show the stream to your hard drive for replaying every bit often equally you like.
Even better, some of the newest audio capture software program incorporates something called an mp3 splitter. This software is able to break the audio stream into distinct mp3 song files. By the right smart, this is absolutely legal, because you're simply taping a broadcast, the identical equally when you phonograph record a TV show on your VHS. Voila -- we experienced the second half of our solution.
Between the audio streams and splitter/entering software program, we produced our own living Bollywood mp3 download sites.
Now whenever my niece is in a humour to explore the latest tuneful offerings from Bollywood, she dogs on her favorite Indian-medicine Internet radio place, then starts the transcription software package. Pretty soon she has enough Bollywood mp3s to shuffle over for the rest of the workweek, and she's almost secured to find two or three that will spur her to make a trigger to the CD bin behind at the Asian storage.
