Tag: Mavrix update

  • 1940s Hindi Films Albums Now Listed On MySwar

    When we launched MySwar.in late last year, we had Hindi film music listings for four decades, from 1971 to the present. Since then we have added three more decades – the 1960s, the 1950s and yesterday, the 1940s. We now have information on seven decades of Hindi film music in one place. 1940s was a…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…