Music Goes Social With SongBuzz – Review Of Rediff’s Latest Innovation
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Rediff.com take a social step in their scramble to draw more user attention. Their latest innovation being SongBuzz, they use the Twitter-based model of streaming your updates in the form of songs. So users can sign up with their respective email ids and then get started with letting people in their ‘World Stream‘ section. Other categories include ‘Find People‘ and ‘Blog‘ which hasn’t seen a great participation since it’s launch.
Worldstream is a kind of real-time stream of what others are streaming right now. In worldstream you can see what others are playing and if you their choice you can follow them. There are not many other social elements in the site, but they claim to add more in future. They call this their ‘testing phase‘ so one can’t expect astonishing features from it.
The music player at the bottom of the page plays the music when one clicks on ‘Preview’, which is offered when you search for a particular song. The catalog doesn’t hold a great range of music collection yet, which is quite a drawback when it comes to attracting a new visitor. I got a ‘No Result’ for the very first time when I searched for my favourite song on SongBuzz. With nothing intellectual about this creation, I don’t think there will be a great deal of fan following in the near future.
There’s nothing I’ve got against SongBuzz with regards to my favourite song which it didn’t find, but Guruji Music on the other hand gave me an instant and positive result. It found for me one particular song in no time. However Guruji Music didn’t have a play or preview option which SongBuzz promises to have.
Although they have an easy downloading procedure, it reaches out to other music sites for their search results and downloads via that site throwing up a new window with a link to click on. The thing about Guruji is that it allows different people to use it differently. It allows you to listen to the song and/or download it. Aggregating from several other sites, that makes an impressive database of songs, indexed by artist, album and title.
Indian companies like Guruji started Music search services in the past and has seen surge in traffic owing to those services. These services although are vulnerable to litigation’s are a quick resort to gain loyal userbase and traffic. Similarly a new player in the similar arena emerges from nowhere and raises the bar for other startups citing distinctive opportunities in this genre.
Mumbai-based KraftMusic boasts free music available for all, promising various categories of artists, genres including all the national and international latest releases. We spoke to Shahil Shah, CEO & Founder, KraftMusic4Free.com who explained his concept of having MP3 crawlers on his sites which are kind of like a bot which specifically searches sites for MP3 links.
Shahil said, “Whenever I wanted to listen to music, it was a lot of pain, either to login or to register on some site or to search it on Google. Having a programming background, one day I just thought of making a sort of one stop MP3 station and so I started making crawlers that would go to different sites and get MP3 links. This way I got this site up but many crawlers won’t work when the format of other sites changes. So I always had to keep testing the crawlers. It was fun. Currently few crawlers are not working but we have come up with 2 new MP3 crawlers. Future plans are to integrate movie trailers cum review and a life story site and also to re-design kraftmusic4free.com.“
At WATBlog we have also covered Microsoft’s attempt to garner a healthy market share where their music streaming service was said to be pretty similar to Spotify which provides free music to its users by listening to a minute of advertising every half hour. Even Google’s music service didn’t quite impact the Indian market as much as it was expected may be because the Indian music scene is quite dissimilar as compared to the west.
Secondly, not just in India but in Asia people are not willing to pay a lot of money and hence listed as the ‘Land of Downloaders’. Music search engines placed as a lucrative market segment already, only needs to be watched of matching every user’s needs with regular data research and interactive surveys, to improve their service.
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Nice innovation, though wish the post was proof checked once – the typos ruined what was otherwise an interesting reading
Article is too long and alot of grammatical errors! Dont expect this from Watblog.
Hey lavita and shane.. Just proof read the article and found one typo and a couple of sentence grammar mistakes. While that is bad its not so bad either. But point taken Ill make sure we make more effort than normal to keep typos and grammar mistakes to a minimum.
wow…. really nice article… would try all the websites.
This script is availble for buying on DP forum for 20 bucks, and leeches illegal MP3 links from file-sharing sites, what a shame you mentioned them as legal and with Rediff’s service.
we just crawl google and then get the website links to get mp3. one can himself do that. we query google smartly. if you read an article of how to query google for mp3s then you would see this. how we query google is :-
“?intitle:index.of? mp3 ”
so this will give you mp3 links which are shared by people.
so we just check these sites and if those mp3s are shared then we show it in our search results. we won’t tell you what algorithm we use to select google results.
its basically we crawl folders on servers which have shared music uploaded by users.
so we are not leeching any site. we are just providing some efficient query results. rest there is nothing great in that site.
shahil, I have nothing against you or your site; it’s just this was not expected from WATBLOG.