Create A Free (Virtual) Bollywood MP3 Download Site

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My nephew loves Indian movies and Indian soundtracks. For him, this vibrant, colorful, romantic and simply entertaining genre for most people in the world can be summed up in one word. That’s Bollywood.

I admit I was also drawn to Bollywood, though not as much as my niece who owns several Indian films and regularly hires others. Well of Bollywood is so deep that you have to settle for some of the movies in production to get the attention of American film critics. Otherwise I would be lost in the Indian Ocean of unknown movie names, actors and actresses.

My nephew also collects Bollywood CDs.

Near his house is an Asian market that offers a lot. But she has the same problem of choosing which CD to buy. So I decide which Bollywood movies are worth it. If you haven’t seen the movie with the soundtrack, you often don’t know if you like the songs and performers from a particular album.

At her request, I have arranged a way for her to listen to various Pagalworld a to z Bollywood songs, and I can live with them on my iPod for a while. All were free. This will allow you to ultimately make an informed decision about which CD to purchase.

First I was looking for an Indian music site, specifically a site dedicated to Bollywood, or at least modern popular music (as opposed to classical Indian raga, for example). I found some good ones with names like Bollywood World and India FM.

Most sites I’ve come across offer song samples, i.e. 30 second or 1 minute songs.

Some even offered a full audio stream that allowed visitors to listen to as much Bollywood music as they wanted. It was this second one that provided the first half of our solution.

You cannot normally record or download streaming audio, such as what you are listening to on an Internet radio station. Nevertheless, the new software allows you to save the stream to your hard drive so that you can play it as often as you like.

Also, some modern audio capture software includes a feature called mp3 splitter. This software can split the audio stream into separate mp3 song files. Incidentally, this is completely legal as it records broadcasts such as TV shows on VHS for example. Voila, here’s the other half of our solution.

We built our own virtual Bollywood mp3 download site between the audio stream and the recording/splitting software.

Now, when my nephew wants to listen to the latest Bollywood songs, he clicks on his favorite Indian internet radio station and then runs his recording software. Soon you’ll have enough Bollywood mp3s to shuffle the rest of the week, and you’ll almost certainly find a couple of mp3s in Asian stores that will entice you to travel in CD cases.