Tag: music
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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…
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Freaky Friday Playlist Oct-28-2011
Weekly feature of songs we are listening to – randomly.
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MySwar Beta Announcement – Reactions And How We Are Responding
I announced the MySwar beta a few days ago on this blog, on our Twitter account, our Facebook page, directly to a few people who I view as early adopters and music geeks and also a forum called RMIM. All of us at Mavrix also shared the announcement with friends and family. While I haven’t…
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The Music In Us
Imagine. Or remember. You are a long way from home. You are alone in your rented apartment. Or rather you are stuck. You do not want to go out because outside is a sea of unfamiliar faces speaking in an unfamiliar tongue. And you are not in the mood to explore new places or make…
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Freaky Friday Playlist Oct-21-2011
Weekly feature of songs we are listening to – randomly.
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Digital Music Landscape II: Discovery
[This is the second part of a three-part post covering the digital music landscape. You can read the first post here.] In the second part , let’s look at the different approaches of music discovery. Regardless of the approach, the end objective is to help people find new music. Music for music’s sake The Music…
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Digital Music Landscape I : Recommenders
[This is the first part of a three-part post that provides a high level overview of the digital music landscape where Mavrix and MySwar fits in.] Recommender: specific type of information filtering system technique that attempts to recommend information items (movies, music, books, news, images, web pages, etc.) or social elements (e.g. people, events or groups) that are likely to be of interest to the user. – Wikipedia…