Tag: music
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India Losing Music Genres Due To Bollywood?
The title of this post is a direct quote from an interview with Shubha Mudgal. Many months ago, I made a similar observation is a post titled Is Bollywood Overdose Killing India Music?. There is no denying the fact that Bollywood music’s overwhelming popularity suppresses non-film music. But isn’t Bollywood itself a melting pot of…
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If You Like Jhuki Jhuki Si Nazar
Yesterday was Kaifi Azmi’s birthday. I am picking up one of my favorite songs written by him to play the MySwar recommendations for Jhuki Jhuki Si Nazar: Tum Itna Jo Muskura Rahe Ho – The song on the top of the list is hardly surprising. It is similar to Jhuki Jhuki Si Nazar in many…
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The Formula To Rate Music – Some Examples
Here’s a response I got for my post on the music rating formula: @mavrixin you’ve to Justify your formula with a few samples! — Pavan Jha (@p1j) December 22, 2011 I agree that I should have probably included some examples but the post was already quite long and I was feeling lazy! So let me…
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The Formula To Rate Music
I have rated a number of songs on this blog over the last year or so through the Freaky Friday Playlist. I started off using a “gut-feel” approach and found myself disagreeing with my own ratings after I published posts! This gut-feel approach started seeming random and I came up with a formula for my…
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MySwar.Com Beta Invites Sent
So we finally got to the gut-wrenching, fearsome moment of releasing MySwar.in to Beta testers (please register on MySwar.Com if you want invites). We had a few Alpha testers (friends and family) check out the website over the last few weeks and got some good, solid feedback from them. I was happy that we anticipated…
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Freaky Friday Playlist Nov-11-2011
Weekly feature of songs we are listening to – randomly.
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Mavrix Blog – The Most Popular Posts and Our Favourites
We completed of one year of our blog on November 3 and I thought this would be a good time to do the customary round-up of our most popular posts and the posts that we, at Mavrix, like the most. Here goes: Most Popular Coke Studio India Must Be Cheered People – Please Get Off…
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Bollywood National Award Winning Songs – 2001 to 2011
Ever wondered why some songs are so much more loved than others? The songs listed below give us some insight into what makes some songs special. These are my personal favorites from the list of Bollywood songs/albums that have won a National Award in the Best Singer category over the last decade. Enjoy! Movie: Lagaan…
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Mavrix Monthly Update October-2011
Announced beta launch. We announced the beta launch of MySwar a few days ago. Here is a synopsis of some early responses. Winding up. We spent the entire month reviewing, and in some cases re-reviewing, the content we have put together. By the time we are through, we would have reviewed the analysis of more…
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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…