Producing A (Virtual) Free Bollywood MP3 Download Site

 

My niece enjoys Indian pictures and Indian film music. To her, equally to hot of the worldwide, this easy, colorful, loving and just-plain-fun musical genre is added up in one word: Bollywood.

 

I confess that I've become taken with Bollywood equally well, though non to the said extent as my niece, who holds a figure of Indian films and on a regular basis lets others. The Bollywood happy is so bad that I have to throttle myself to watching those a couple of of its outputs that babble up to view the attending of American movie commentators. Otherwise I leaved be lost in Indian ocean of unfamiliar with movie titles, workers and actresses.

 

My niece likewise gathers CDs of Bollywood medicine. There's an Asian food market nearly her home that provides a cornucopia of them. Just she has the same problem opting CDs to buy that I do settling 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 every bit to whether a minute CD's vocals and creative people are ones she will enjoy.

 

At her invite, I set up a means for her to preview a form of Bollywood songs and even to live with them on her iPod for a while, all for Available. This fashion 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 (as opposed, say, to classical Indian ragas). I found several good ones, with names such every bit Bollywood reality 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.

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nearly of the Web sites I found offered song samples, meaning 30-second or 1-minute snippets. Some got full audio streams that allowed the visitor to listen to continuous Bollywood medicine for equally long every bit 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 station, cannot be saved or downloaded. New computer software, though, makes it possible to record the stream to your hard drive for replaying as often every bit you like.

 

Even better, some of the newest audio capture software incorporates something called an mp3 splitter. This software is able to break the audio stream into part mp3 song files. By the style, this is utterly legal, because you're simply transcription a broadcast, the very 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/taping software program, we produced our own living Bollywood mp3 download sites.

 

Now whenever my niece is in a humor to search the latest tuneful offerings from Bollywood, she ticks on her favorite Indian-music Internet radio post, then starts the entering software. Pretty soon she has enough Bollywood mp3s to shuffle up for the rest of the week, and she's almost assured to find two or three that will spur her to give a stumble to the CD bin set at the Asian memory.