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