Comments on: rhydhun – The Indian Music Jukebox from musicindiaonline.com

By: Confused

Confused — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:41:36 +0000

what do you think about phulki.com and aflatune.com, phulki at least publishes the sources – fmw1,mp3hungama, …..aflatune is company, limited liability, registered in US….they are not allowing to publish the sourcecode….are they iilegal because they are not IPRS licensed..????

By: indigene

indigene — Wed, 21 May 2008 07:18:25 +0000

How do they make money?

As IPRS licensee they pay:

Rs 10 Lakhs flat annual charge OR 15% of Gross Revenue whichever is higher.

Additionally, an EPHEMERAL charge (Musicindiaonline pays to the Licensor storage fees for the temporary storage of licensed Works on the musicindiaonline’s servers) of Rs 2/- per song per annum is charged

The other music licensing agency in India Phonograpic Performance Limited (PPL) charges 0.06{Six Paisa} Paisa Per Performance for all the Audio Transmissions OR 35% of the advertisement Revenue whichever is higher,along with a MG(Minimum Gaurantee) of Rs. 10,00,000/- ( Ten Lacs only) for One Year which is Non-refundable but creditable to the royalty against the System Generated Usage Reports.per song.

IPRS was also going to shift to this charging model of PPL.

Are we saying all these charges are paid through google advertisements?

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:17:30 +0000

Rhydhun scores over musicindiaonline.com by offering excellent sound quality and also it is advt free. I guess they are planning to add feetures like downloading music tracks in to mobile devices/computers. Rhydhun is a boon for die-hard music enthusiasists like me who has been waiting for a music player like this. Hats off to Anand Aiyer, the creator of Rhydhun.

By: Rupesh

Rupesh — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:14:47 +0000

@Just curious,
Songs are cached to the local hard disk drive, but can only be accessed after logging into the Rhydhun desktop client.
and moreover, musicindiaonline.com site says- “MusicIndiaOnLine.com is an IPRS licensed website”
you can contact them for more clarification.

@Abhishek,
yes you are true. But, the point is – why would someone use Rhydhun if there is musicindiaonline.com?

By: Abhishek Goyal

Abhishek Goyal — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:13:32 +0000

IMHO, They are also providing an option of a desktop application because it is more sticky. And if they don’t do it someone else might and eat up their market share.

By: Just curious

Just curious — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:15:59 +0000

Isn’t this still illegal? Earlier you went to site and streamed music, now you are actually using client and listening to it. Caching 300MB *may* save bandwidth but it can also be interpreted as saving music on your hard drive…..