My niece loves Indian takes and Indian film medicine. To her, equally to most of the Earth, this rich, colorful, warm and just-plain-fun literary genre is summed up in one word: Bollywood.
Last.fm is a highly popular music site which lets users create paid and free accounts. Account holders can stream popular music online with ease. Whilst free music streaming is possible, saving music to one’s hard drive is not. To record Last.fm music streams as mp3 audio files, Last Recorder can be employed.
Last Recorder is a tiny freeware compatible with Windows and Ubuntu operating systems. The Windows version is nearly 7MB large and requires no installation. Just simply download and run the 7MB exe file. Then we feed the program our Last.fm username plus password. Once logged in, click the red recording button; consequently all songs we stream will be saved by the program in the mp3 audio format.
The mp3 files can be tagged separately (type in the tags within the program) according to the filename we want it to have. Additionally we can choose to strip the filename of characters which Windows does not recognize. Last Recorder can also be configured to skip already recorded streams.
Main features:
- Freeware.
- Compatible with Windows and Ubuntu.
- User friendly interface.
- Can add ID3 tags (artist, album, title) to audio files.
- Can strip whitespaces and Windows-incompatible characters from file names.
- Can automatically skip already recorded streams.
- Remembers last used station and other settings.
- Similar tools: Fire.fm, PWNLast.fm, YouScrobble and also see our article “3 Easy Tools to Record Streaming Music as MP3 Files”.
Get LastRecorder @ www.timka.org/lastrecorder
Online resources for discovering and downloading new music appear to be endless. And once you have discovered one that has everything you want, it’s gone. They come and go like the seasons. Some are legal, most are not.
The best way to keep up with the latest single or album releases, tour dates, and the hottest new bands are social music networks.
Here is a website that focuses entirely on what’s hot right now and where to get cool new tunes for free.
Muzic
We tune in and analyze this tidal wave of musical conversation to help you find songs, artists, and music bloggers that you want to know about. We want to help you discover new artists you’ll support in the future.
Sound good? Let’s have a look at how Muzic works.
Browsing for music…
When you’re not logged in the start page shows a tag cloud of “artists happening now”, i.e. artists that have a lot of free stuff out now. You can zoom over to “songs happening now” and “bloggers on our radar” by clicking the small buttons at the bottom of the tag cloud.
Muzic lets you search for artists, songs, or bloggers. But to discover new bands, “popular tags” or “songs by genre” are a better starting point.
The results page is a list of posts that match your query. Posts are created by the bloggers that provide the free MP3 downloads. Each post contains details about the song and a link back to the the site where it was posted originally.
Click on the song name to launch the song’s card, which contains some more information, as well as lists of more songs from the same blog and all songs from that artist below the card.
Downloading mp3s…
Once you found an interesting song, click > Get Song in its bottom left. You will be redirected to the original source. Muzic will stay with you though, as it is minimized to a small bar at the top of the page.
Now you can either download the song from the respective blog or from Muzic’s top navigation bar. If you decide for Muzic, > right-click the green > Download MP3 button and select > Save Link As… from the menu. Now select a destination and you’re ready to save the song.
To return to Muzic, click the << back link in its navigation bar at the top.
In case an artist uploaded a song to Muzic, you can directly download the MP3 from the respective song card. Uploaded songs can also be “previewed”, i.e. listened to in full through the Muzic player, which launches in a separate frame at the bottom of the page.
The community…
When you’re logged in you can add songs to your faves, follow other listeners or artists that have uploaded songs, and update your profile.
In all honesty, the profile features and community aspects are a little underdeveloped. Unless I missed out on something important, there is no real exchange between users. You can see what others added as their faves and follow them, but that’s about it. On the other hand that isn’t too bad. After all, you’re in for the latest free music and not for even more distractions.
Hungry for more free music?
- The Best Sites To Download Free Music by Simon
- Top 10 Websites For Free & Legal MP3 Music Downloads by Tina
- Download Free Music, Videos & Movies On iTunes by Jeffry
- How To Download Music From Deezer, Pandora And More by Jason K
- Lala – Really Cool New Site for Music Streaming & Downloads by Stefan
- 3 Sources to Stream Or Download Live Music for Free by Tina
- 5 Sites To Download Free Video Game Music by Tina
What are you listening to these days?
Image credits: CMSeter
I profess that I've get taken with Bollywood as happy, though non to the identical extent equally my niece, who has a number of Indian moving pictures and on a regular basis rents others. The Bollywood well is so deep that I give to confine myself to checking those few of its outputs that bubble up to catch the tending of American movie referees. Otherwise I imparted be lost in Indian ocean of unfamiliar with movie titles, actors and actresses.
My niece also collects CDs of Bollywood medicine. There's an Asian mart good her national that proposes a cornucopia of them. Simply she has the said problem choosing CDs to buy that I do resolving which Bollywood movie may be worth my time. Unless she's seen the film from which a soundtrack derives, she's usually in the dark as to whether a special CD's vocals and artists are ones she will enjoy.
At her petition, I set up a fashion for her to preview a sort of Bollywood strains and even to live with them on her iPod for a while, all for Free. This way she can make wise decisions about which CDs she ultimately purchases.
almost of the Web sites I found offered song samples, meaning 30-second or 1-minute snippets. Some had full audio streams that allowed the visitor to listen to continuous Bollywood music for equally long as she or he might want. It was these latter that provided the first half of our solution.
Normally, streaming audio, such every bit what you hear over an Internet radio station, cannot be saved or downloaded. New software package, though, makes it possible to show the stream to your hard drive for replaying as often every bit you like.
Even better, some of the newest audio capture software program incorporates something called an mp3 splitter. This software system is able to break the audio stream into tell mp3 song files. By the means, this is absolutely legal, because you're simply putting down a broadcast, the same every bit when you phonograph record a TV show on your VHS. Voila -- we had the second half of our solution.
Between the audio streams and splitter/recording software, we created our own real Bollywood mp3 download sites.
Now whenever my niece is in a mode to research the latest tuneful offerings from Bollywood, she dogs on her favorite Indian-music Internet radio place, then starts the showing software system. Pretty soon she has enough Bollywood mp3s to shuffle terminated for the rest of the calendar week, and she's almost undertaken to find two or three that will spur her to net a activate to the CD bin complete at the Asian memory.
No comments:
Post a Comment