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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