Producing A (Virtual) Outstanding Bollywood MP3 Download Web Site

 

My niece knows Indian takes and Indian film music. To her, equally to about of the Earth, this galore, colorful, potty and just-plain-fun genre is summarized up in one word: Bollywood.

 

I confess that I've get taken with Bollywood as well, though non to the said extent every bit my niece, who holds a number of Indian moving pictures and regularly takes others. The Bollywood well is so bad that I get to hold myself to checking those a couple of of its yields that ripple up to match the care of American movie referees. Otherwise I gave be lost in Indian ocean of strange movie titles, workers and actresses.

 

My niece also hoards CDs of Bollywood medicine. There's an Asian food market about her internal that cracks a cornucopia of them. Simply she has the same problem opting CDs to buy that I do decisive which Bollywood movie may 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 careful CD's calls and artists are ones she will enjoy.

 

At her petition, I set up a right smart for her to preview a variety of Bollywood calls and even to live with them on her iPod for a while, all for Loose. This room she can have knowing 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 world and India FM.

There's a lot of desktop software that will allow you to cut an mp3 down to a single short clip, or trim the beginning and end of a recording, but there may be times when such software doesn't work for you. Maybe you're on someone else's computer. Maybe you don't need all of the features that a versatile app like Audacity has to offer. That's where CutMp3.net comes in. It's a simple, Web-based way to trim an mp3 without uploading or re-encoding it.



Okay, I admit, this site doesn't do much. In fact, it only does one thing: it lets you trim Mp3s by dragging the beginning and end points until you have the selection you want. Of course, you can also play the mp3s to make sure you've cut them in the right places. The only issue I had with the site was that you can't zoom in and out on the waveform, so it takes some sideways scrolling to see the end of your track. (Oh, and a volume control for the player would be nice!)

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

almost 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 medicine for as 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 station, cannot be saved or downloaded. New software package, 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 class mp3 song files. By the right smart, this is utterly legal, because you're simply recording a broadcast, the duplicate every bit when you phonograph record a TV show on your VHS. Voila -- we got the second half of our solution.

 

Between the audio streams and splitter/recording software system, we made our own virtual Bollywood mp3 download sites.

 

Now whenever my niece is in a humour to search the latest tuneful offerings from Bollywood, she penetrates on her favorite Indian-medicine Internet radio post, then starts the transcription software program. Pretty soon she has enough Bollywood mp3s to shuffle through for the rest of the workweek, and she's almost insured to find two or three that will spur her to take a trigger to the CD bin down at the Asian store.