Monday, April 12, 2010

Producing A (Virtual) Absent Bollywood MP3 Download Site

 

My niece beds Indian pictures and Indian film medicine. To her, equally to nearly of the reality, this exuberant, colorful, warm and just-plain-fun genre is resumed up in one word: Bollywood.


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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


I confess that I've went taken with Bollywood as happy, though not to the identical extent equally my niece, who owns a issue of Indian films and regularly takes others. The Bollywood well is so deep that I experience to throttle myself to seeing those a couple of of its outputs that belch up to view the aid of American movie readers. Otherwise I given be lost in Indian ocean of unknown movie titles, players and actresses.

 

My niece besides collects CDs of Bollywood music. There's an Asian mart nearly her internal that proposes a cornucopia of them. Simply she has the one problem choosing CDs to buy that I do resolving which Bollywood movie English hawthorn 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 minute CD's strains and creative people are ones she will enjoy.

 

At her asking, I set up a room for her to preview a mixture of Bollywood strains and even to live with them on her iPod for a while, all for Available. This right smart she can establish 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 music (every bit opposed, say, to classical Indian ragas). I found several good ones, with names such every bit Bollywood earth and India FM.

 

about of the Web sites I found offered song samples, meaning 30-second or 1-minute snippets. Some given full audio streams that allowed the visitor to listen to continuous Bollywood medicine for every bit long equally 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, 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 package incorporates something called an mp3 splitter. This computer software is able to break the audio stream into tell mp3 song files. By the style, this is absolutely legal, because you're simply reading a broadcast, the identical equally when you show a TV show on your VHS. Voila -- we got the second half of our solution.

 

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

 

Now whenever my niece is in a temper to explore the latest tuneful offerings from Bollywood, she clicks on her favorite Indian-medicine Internet radio station, then starts the putting down software program. Pretty soon she has enough Bollywood mp3s to shuffle up for the rest of the week, and she's almost guaranteed to find two or three that will spur her to make a stumble to the CD bin complete at the Asian shop.

 

 

 

 

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