Mavrix: Music + Data
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iTunes Quietly Launches Music And Films In India (Links Available On MySwar)
Digital India was abuzz yesterday with news of iTunes launching its music and films stores in India. I particularly liked the following posts covering the launch: http://nh7.in/indiecision/2012/12/04/rip-and-run-itunes-india-store-is-finally-here http://www.medianama.com/2012/12/223-apple-finally-extends-itunes-store-to-india/ While the buzz is mostly positive: iTunes is so expensive. Bought a Radiohead album with 27 songs for Rs. 50 twitter.com/aneeshb/status… — Aneesh Bhasin (@aneeshb) December 5,…
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Mavrix Monthly Update November 2012
A quick note on what we shipped last month: Filters: All pages that have album or song listings, now have filters. For example, if you are browsing the list of albums released in 2012, and you want to see the films for which Pritam composed the music that year, Click on Filter, enter Pritam as Music Director…
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Mavrix Monthly Update October 2012
A quick note on what we shipped last month: Prompt for search box. This is a small thing but people were typing all kinds of things in the search box (like “download please”), so we thought a prompt might help. Just to clarify – you can search for albums, songs or artists. Sorting. Now you…
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Playlists – Now on MySwar!
We have playlists on MySwar now! To save you the trouble of individually picking songs for the playlists, we’re rolling out a bunch of pre-packaged ones. You can find the Playlist button all over our website. Here is a list of the types of playlists we have for you: Album playlist – Playlist button on…
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Mavrix Monthly Update August 2012
Here’s what we shipped this month on MySwar: Added Facebook Like and Google + buttons for artists, albums and songs. Personalize recommendations – If you have subscribed for the new release mailer, you’ll start seeing personalized song recommendations from the newly released albums based on your ratings. The more songs you rate, the better our…
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Musicians Don’t Matter In India?
Shubha Mudgal posted the following series of tweets yesterday. Check ID tags for Pyar Ke Geet on emusic..com. Artistes are Malaika Arora & Arbaz Khan. No composer, no lyricist or singer. Shame ! — Shubha Mudgal (@smudgal) July 25, 2012 Reflects the status of composer, singer, lyricists in the producer’s scheme. Obviously we don’t matter…
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What’s Your Bollywood Music Quotient
How well do you know your Bollywood music? Try out this quiz and find out. [polldaddy survey=”D44FF460D0D14DD7″ type=”button” title=”Take The Quiz!” style=”rounded” text_color=”121AFF” back_color=”78C2FA”] If you need help, try these: Yeh Dosti Hum Nahin Chhodenge Mujhe Pyar Tumse Nahi Kishore Kumar Black’s vocal track Allah Ke Bande Kuch Na Kaho (Female version) Shankar – Jaikishan…
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Mavrix Monthly Update June 2012
Here’s what we shipped this month: Advanced search URLs – You can now share advanced search results through a URL. Here is a list of song sung by Lata Mangeshkar, composed by R.D. Burman and written by Gulzar. Popular songs by Genre and Year – The genre and year listing can be pretty heavy. To…
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Mavrix Monthly Update May 2012
Not many updates this month except that we have shipped a lot of new features. Check them out and let us know what you think: Ability to watch song videos. From Tadbeer Se Bigdi Hui to Pareshaan. Forgiving search – Addresses transliteration variations and common typos. Searching for “nakab” will return results containing “naqab” and…
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Piracy, Copyright Law and Social Trends
This post is prompted by a comment on my review of Partners In Crime, a documentary covering the grey areas of piracy. In my view, the grey areas discussed in this DVD do not legitimize piracy, they expose deficiencies in copyright law. Piracy has been around for a long time and will continue to be…
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