Producing A (Virtual) Free Bollywood MP3 Download Internet Site

 

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

 

I concede that I've become taken with Bollywood equally well, though non to the identical extent every bit my niece, who has a come of Indian films and regularly lets others. The Bollywood better is so large that I give to confine myself to seeing those hardly a of its yields that bubble up to see the tending of American movie commentators. Otherwise I gave be lost in Indian ocean of unfamiliar movie titles, doers and actresses.

 

My niece likewise compiles CDs of Bollywood music. There's an Asian market good her home that passes a cornucopia of them. Just she has the one problem picking out CDs to buy that I do deciding 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 vocals and artists are ones she will enjoy.

 

At her request, I set up a room for her to preview a variety of Bollywood vocals and even to live with them on her iPod for a while, all for Independent. This room she can net 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 music (every bit opposed, say, to classical Indian ragas). I found several good ones, with names such equally Bollywood Earth and India FM.

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

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!)

almost of the Web sites I found offered song samples, meaning 30-second or 1-minute snippets. Some taken 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 as what you hear over an Internet radio post, cannot be saved or downloaded. New software package, though, makes it possible to phonograph record the stream to your hard drive for replaying every bit 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 distinct mp3 song files. By the style, this is dead legal, because you're simply entering a broadcast, the same equally when you show a TV show on your VHS. Voila -- we experienced the second half of our solution.

 

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

 

Now whenever my niece is in a mode to search the latest tuneful offerings from Bollywood, she penetrates on her favorite Indian-medicine Internet radio send, then starts the putting down software. Pretty soon she has enough Bollywood mp3s to shuffle terminated for the rest of the week, and she's almost assured to find two or three that will spur her to give a spark to the CD bin complete at the Asian memory.