Mavrix: Music + Data
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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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Pancham Unmixed – DVD Review
Pancham Unmixed is a homage to R.D. Burman by film-maker, Brahmanand Singh, the key word being “homage”. It is not a documentary or biography but an unabashed tribute offered by the filmmaker to his hero. The 2-hour film is a compilation of interviews with people who knew and/or worked with Pancham and also with a…
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Mavrix Monthly Update March 2012
Song listing for the 1950s went live on MySwar. You can find song listings for films like Baiju Bawra, Mughal-e-Azam, Adalat, Paying Guest, Pyaasa, Anarkali and Naagin here. Bug/fixes cleanups implemented: Breadcrumbs – These are now implemented across the website. Good for navigation, good for SEO! Login issues – Fixed bug related to case-sensitive username…
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Partners In Crime – Documentary Review
After my posts – Piracy is Mainstream and Why People Don’t Talk About Pirate Consumers – one of the readers of the blog recommended that I watch a documentary called Partners in Crime. I had heard about this documentary on Twitter but never got around to seeing it. I finally saw it last week and I…
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Mavrix Monthly Update February 2012
Listing for the 60s went live on MySwar in Feb. You can find them here. New features.Other than some bug fixes and a few UI/UX related changes, we added these features this month: Categorized search suggestions – As you type in the Search box, we provide suggestions categorized as Albums, Songs and Artists to make…
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Why People Don’t Talk About Pirate Consumers
I engaged in a long debate on Twitter yesterday with popular blogger, Karthik Srinivasan (entire conversation at the end of his post). To boil things down, I was asking why illegal downloaders don’t get called out for doing the wrong thing and his point was that it was not really going to make a difference.…
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Piracy Is Mainstream
I’ve been an anti-piracy advocate in my friend circle for many years now. Over time though, I realized that people like me were rare and specially in India, we became outcasts. Friends and relatives look at me like I am nuts when I refuse to lend them my iPod so they can copy songs from…
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