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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…

  • Thank You Steve Jobs

    For opening up a whole new world of music to me. For giving me wonderful experiences through your magical products. For being a source of inspiration and teaching me important lessons. Through your Stanford commencement speech. Through your Thoughts on Music. Through your many keynotes. Most importantly, through the act of building a great company…

  • What I Learnt From Steve Jobs’ “Thoughts On Music”

    Steve Jobs wrote a piece called “Thoughts on Music” a few years ago. If you haven’t read it, please do. It’s amazing how dated this post reads, even though it was written just 4 years ago. Think about it – Just 4 years ago Steve Jobs proposed that DRM be abolished and DRM is already…

  • Discovery vs Search

    “Discovery vs Search” may be a much-discussed topic in tech circles but it’s still not understood very well by people who use these services. I’ve tried to explain the objective of music discovery in our About page, and I still get questions about it. So when I saw this question posted on Twitter, I thought I…

  • Musicians Are A Lot Like Technology Startups

    Life experiences (especially early ones) inspire the musician’s music and the entrepreneur’s business. John Lennon used song-writing as an escape from a troubled childhood. Richard Branson started a school newspaper when he got frustrated by rigid school rules and regulations. Success for both musicians and startups come after a lot of hard work and learning from experience.…

  • iCloud in India

    Our website got a bunch of Google hits with various permutations of the “iCloud India” keywords. I guess that means that a lot of us are wondering if iCloud will come to India. Will it? I think yes, and here’s why. Apple says so! Apple’s US website is very well coordinated with product releases. The…

  • 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…

  • Apple’s iCloud Is Transformational

    What is iCloud? iCloud is Apple’s service that allows consumers to shift their storage hub from local hard-drives to the internet. iCloud takes care of syncing a variety of content and information (contacts, mails, calendars, music, photos, videos, documents, etc.) across multiple devices. The following apps are available on iCloud: Contacts, Calendar, Mail are available…

  • Mavrix Monthly Update May-2011

    We finished cataloguing information for 2 decades of Bollywood songs, from current day to 1991. Good news – We were making good progress! Bad news – We have to started listening to the songs from 1980s – probably the worst ever to come out of Bollywood. Please excuse our team members if they’re posting weird…

  • 3G Cost In India Will Burst Music Cloud Bubble

    Even though Google and Amazon have not yet released their cloud music service in India, the excitement around it is palpable in cities where 3G has been rolled out. One of our team members, Rakshith, can’t wait for Google Music to come to India because he wants access to music anywhere, anytime. To quote him…