Guitarati launches online Antakshari like game

October 6, 2008 · Posted in reviews · Comment

Guitarati has launched an online, Antakshari based game. You can invite friends from Gmail, YahooMail, Hotmail or you can play the game with the site bot itself. Once you select the language of your choice (used to match players), here’s how the game works:
1. On your turn, a letter is assigned to you. You find a song starting with that letter and play it.
2. If your opponent thinks you picked a wrong song for that letter, they can raise objection.
3. If objected to, you can accept objection or sort it over chat if you think the objection is invalid.
4. If you cannot think of a song before your turn expires, you lose turn, miss points.
5. If you cannot think of a song with the assigned letter, you can ask for a new letter once a turn.
6. Game ends when 12 turns have been used up.
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Sunoh.fm launches platform for social discovery of Indian music

September 10, 2008 · Posted in reviews · 9 Comments

Sunoh.fm is a new social networking and music discovery platform for Indian music fans. It is essentially a social networking site, where you can connect with friends and view the music library of your friends. In the process, you discover new, interesting music from your social graph. Information aggregated from all the users (number of plays) is used to determine what artists are popular and what music tracks are currently ‘hot’.

They also provide a desktop client, which is essentially a Windows Media player plugin, that enables to stream music to the desktop.

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Rhydhun - the killer service for Indian music

January 10, 2008 · Posted in India music, reviews · 6 Comments

The online Indian music streaming market has been dominated by two players - Raaga and MusicIndiaOnline. Being a huge music buff, I’ve tried both at some point of time or another. And the listening experience has always been sub-optimal thanks to the poor sound quality, annoying pop-ups and such.

And after trying out Rhydhun, I can hardly contain my excitement. Very rarely do I go this excited while reviewing a website - product.

What is Rhydhun ?

Rhydhun is a desktop client you install on your system. Sign up for an account on their website and once you’ve installed the client, login and get instant access to a musical bonanza - about 107, 160 music tracks and 12,929 albums. The sound quality is at par with that of a CD. After testing it for several hours, I’m yet to see any hitch in the performance or the listening experience. I could very easily search for music titles and soundtracks and filter the results via genres, singers, music directors etc. The usage and feel of the desktop client is very similar to the iTunes client. Everything without the annoying pop-ups or being forced to install the latest Real player version.

The music library is pretty large and diverse as well - they have a pretty good collection of Hindi, regional and classical music (probably same as the MusicIndiaOnline library - read below for their association).

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