| My niece loves Indian films and Indian film | | | | Bollywood World and India FM.Most of the Web |
| music. To her, as to most of the world, this | | | | sites I found offered song samples, meaning |
| exuberant, colorful, romantic and | | | | 30-second or 1-minute snippets. Some had |
| just-plain-fun genre is summed up in one | | | | full audio streams that allowed the visitor |
| word: Bollywood.I confess that I've become | | | | to listen to continuous Bollywood music for |
| taken with Bollywood as well, though not to | | | | as long as she or he might want. It was |
| the same extent as my niece, who owns a | | | | these latter that provided the first half of |
| number of Indian movies and regularly rents | | | | our solution.Normally, streaming audio, such |
| others. The Bollywood well is so deep that I | | | | as what you hear over an Internet radio |
| have to confine myself to watching those few | | | | station, cannot be saved or downloaded. New |
| of its productions that bubble up to catch | | | | software, though, makes it possible to record |
| the attention of American movie reviewers. | | | | the stream to your hard drive for replaying |
| Otherwise I would be lost in Indian ocean of | | | | as often as you like.Even better, some of the |
| unfamiliar movie titles, actors and | | | | newest audio capture software incorporates |
| actresses.My niece also collects CDs of | | | | something called an mp3 splitter. This |
| Bollywood music. There's an Asian market | | | | software is able to break the audio stream |
| near her home that offers a cornucopia of | | | | into separate mp3 song files. By the way, |
| them. But she has the same problem choosing | | | | this is perfectly legal, because you're |
| CDs to buy that I do deciding which Bollywood | | | | simply recording a broadcast, the same as |
| movie may be worth my time. Unless she's | | | | when you record a TV show on your VHS. Voila |
| seen the film from which a soundtrack | | | | -- we had the second half of our |
| derives, she's usually in the dark as to | | | | solution.Between the audio streams and |
| whether a particular CD's songs and artists | | | | splitter/recording software, we created our |
| are ones she will enjoy.At her request, I set | | | | own virtual Bollywood mp3 download sites.Now |
| up a way for her to preview a variety of | | | | whenever my niece is in a mood to explore the |
| Bollywood songs and even to live with them on | | | | latest tuneful offerings from Bollywood, she |
| her iPod for a while, all for free. This way | | | | clicks on her favorite Indian-music Internet |
| she can make informed decisions about which | | | | radio station, then starts the recording |
| CDs she ultimately purchases.First, I | | | | software. Pretty soon she has enough |
| searched for Indian music Web sites, and | | | | Bollywood mp3s to shuffle through for the |
| specifically for those devoted to Bollywood, | | | | rest of the week, and she's almost guaranteed |
| or at least modern popular music (as opposed, | | | | to find two or three that will spur her to |
| say, to classical Indian ragas). I found | | | | make a trip to the CD bin down at the Asian |
| several good ones, with names such as | | | | store. |