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Category: Technology

  • How Can I Contribute To MySwar?

    Every once in a while, people ask us, “How can I contribute to MySwar?” and we offer piecemeal answers each time. Of late, we have been asked this question a lot, and it makes sense for us to give a holistic answer. In most cases, the people who ask this question have already contributed or…

  • MySwar Performance Issues – The Dark Side of The AI Boom

    Frequent users of MySwar would have noticed a significant slowdown of MySwar as well as some erratic behaviour over the last few weeks. At the outset, let me apologize for these issues. In this blog post, I’ll talk about the root cause of the issues we’re facing and what we have been doing to address…

  • New, Improved Song Recommender on MySwar

    By Abhishek Gupta On MySwar, every song has a Similar Songs section that shows songs related to the one you’re browsing. Our earlier system used a basic static algorithm where similar songs were pre-generated for each track. This meant recommendations were often stale and inflexible — any change in the logic required regenerating the entire…

  • MySwar Subscriptions Now Available

    MySwar is now available for subscription. As a subscriber, you can enjoy MySwar ad-free and get access to exclusive features like Advanced Search, Text Search and Tag Search. You can opt for a quarterly subscription for Rs. 300/- or an annual subscription for Rs. 1000/-. We are accepting only Indian payment options at this time.…

  • Important Changes In MySwar

    Hello friends, It has been nearly 15 years since we launched MySwar. It has been a labour of love, and I have enjoyed every moment of this journey. I have been gratified by the help, encouragement and support I have recieved from many Hindi film music lovers during this journey. In the last few years, one…

  • Tag Search on MySwar – New Feature

    MySwar stores many musical attributes of every song in its database. These attributes were documented painstakingly by listening to each song. Most of these attributes or tags have not been visible to MySwar users thus far. That has changed now.  The new Tag Search feature allows users to search songs based on their musical attributes.…

  • New Feature to Extract MySwar Data

    A significant number of MySwar users are not just music lovers but also data/analytical geeks. While they enjoy MySwar for the level of detail it provides and the many ways in which it allows them to explore Hindi film music, many have expressed an interest in extracting information from our database so that they can…

  • Text Search Feature – Now On MySwar

    Films, songs and artists are the most important elements in the MySwar database and so these are the elements that drive the existing search functionality on MySwar. This search feature, along with the powerful Advanced Search and Browse features, serves the needs of most users on MySwar. However, other data elements on MySwar have remained relatively inaccessible to users. Among…

  • MySwar Updates

    We’ve been busy making MySwar better these past few months and although we’re far from done, it’s a good time to review two of these updates: A few months ago, we started entering information for Hindi films released between 1931 and 1940. In a first pass, we entered the most important films released in this decade – films like…

  • Change in MySwar domain

    Earlier this week, some of us observed that myswar.com was inaccessible. We had recently moved to a new hosting provider and our first thought was that it was an issue at their end. Further investigation, however, revealed that we were most likely the target of a court order that had ISPs blocking our website. The…