Monday, June 11, 2001		Entertainment

THOUGH there are numerous avenues of entertainment in the present digital world yet the most upcoming avenue for entertainment is Internet. We have discussed many avenues of entertainment on the Internet in this column, out of which music is one of the most prominent one. Especially after the Napster episode, music on the Internet has become a craze. Though on the Internet there are a lot of western music available yet there are good resources for Indian music too. There are many sites, which have songs not only in Hindi, but in other regional languages also and specially the most popular Punjabi songs. One such site is www.crosswinds.net/~indianmp3songs. On this site you can find MP3 songs in Hindi, Punjabi, and Indian pop, remixes, ghazals and old classic songs. If you do not find your favorite song on this site then you can request your song on this site. It also has a section for India-specific news from the newspapers all over the world. Overall it’s a good site for music lovers.

There is another good site http://bollywoodsmashits.hypermart.net for Indian music, which has a huge variety of music, which includes audio as well as videos. The audio collection is both in MP3 and Real audio format whereas the video selection is in real video format. This is a well-laid out site and has sections such as Browse my movies, Hindi songs trailers, Hindi MP3, Oldies, Latest MP3, Hindi Juke Box1, Hindi Juke Box2, Real Video Songs, Bollywood smash hits, Current Top hits, Current Hits, Top 10 etc. On this site you can also find a section on the entertainment news, where you can read all gossip related to the Bollywood and also the music world. The music on this site is also divided into some popular categories like remixes, latest songs, bhangra, ghazal, oldies etc. There is also a section for music live performance. If you want more on Bollywood and the music world, then you can log on to the chat-rooms. However for this site you will need the music players like Winamp, Real Player etc. This site is not just all about Hindi songs, but it also has a section on English and Latino music. You can play these songs online or can create your own Web CD. These songs are also rated on the basis of their popularity. You can also send these songs by e-mail to yourself or your friends. Overall it’s a good site on music and entertainment.

Though there are many other good sites on music, however, these were some of the good music sites, where you can find a wide variety of music, which caters to the choice of all kind of music lovers.

— IV