Making A (Virtual) Absent Bollywood MP3 Download Web Site

 

My niece beds Indian takes and Indian film medicine. To her, as to hot of the Earth, this rank, colorful, loving and just-plain-fun writing style is added up in one word: Bollywood.

 

I squeal that I've went taken with Bollywood every bit good, though non to the duplicate extent every bit my niece, who features a number of Indian pictures and regularly takes others. The Bollywood happy is so shot that I take to confine myself to checking those a couple of of its outputs that bubble up to get the tending of American movie reviewers. Otherwise I gave be lost in Indian ocean of unfamiliar with movie titles, role players and actresses.

 

My niece besides hoards CDs of Bollywood medicine. There's an Asian commercialise good her internal that volunteers a cornucopia of them. Just she has the identical problem picking out CDs to buy that I do fatal 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 equally to whether a special CD's strains and creative people are ones she will enjoy.

 

At her invite, I set up a room for her to preview a sort of Bollywood calls and even to live with them on her iPod for a while, all for Independent. This fashion she can make familiar 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 (equally opposed, say, to classical Indian ragas). I found several good ones, with names such as Bollywood worldwide 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

nearly 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 equally long as 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 software program, though, makes it possible to tape the stream to your hard drive for replaying equally often equally you like.

 

Even better, some of the newest audio capture software package incorporates something called an mp3 splitter. This software program is able to break the audio stream into separate mp3 song files. By the room, this is dead legal, because you're simply transcription a broadcast, the said equally when you tape a TV show on your VHS. Voila -- we made the second half of our solution.

 

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

 

Now whenever my niece is in a temper to explore the latest tuneful offerings from Bollywood, she snaps on her favorite Indian-music Internet radio station, then starts the reading software. 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 have a travel to the CD bin set at the Asian store.