Tag: download

  • MySwar App Update On iOS – Going Free!

    We released a new version of the MySwar app on iOS yesterday. This update makes the app free and displays banner ads. There is an option to make an in-app purchase to remove the ads for a period of 1 year (Upgrade option in Settings). We realize that some of you have purchased the app only recently…

  • MySwar Updates

    We shipped a few cool updates to MySwar this morning: Flipkart’s digital music service, Flyte, is now available as a purchase option on the MySwar website. At the album level, you will now see iTunes, Flipkart (for audio CD) and Flyte as options and at the song level iTunes and Flyte. This is subject to…

  • Now Available – MySwar App On iOS and Android

    Great news – The MySwar app is now available! Here are the app store links: Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mavrix.myswar iOS – https://itunes.apple.com/app/myswar/id622503117?mt=8 Download, enjoy and share!

  • 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,…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • Digital Music Landscape III: Consumption

    [This is the concluding part of a three-part post on the Digital Music Landscape. You can read the first post and the second post to get up to speed] Let’s look at the services that exist in the West against the services for Indian music in an attempt to look at how music recommendations serve…

  • Coke Studio at MTV – Songs For Sale and Minicert Review

    If you hadn’t already heard, the songs from the Coke Studio India are up for sale. iTunes US     iTunes UK     iTune Canada     Flipkart If you want to check out reviews before buying, your best bet is probably Music Aloud. After my (ahem, hugely popular) post supporting by Coke Studio,…

  • Links For Buying Stuff (Mainly Music)

    You may have noticed links leading to iTunes and Flipkart from our website. A few things about these links: They are affiliate links. If you click through these links and buy something, we get a small commission. There are up to 4 links for each item (if we can find them) – one for each…

  • Why Won’t Apple’s iCloud Stream Music?

    Since Apple’s big iCloud announcement a couple of days ago, the internet has been abuzz with people expressing disappointment at the iCloud not going far enough when it came to music (like here, and here). What did Apple miss? Streaming. Broadly, there seem to be two camps of people when it comes to music listening…