Monday, April 8, 2002		Entertainment

THE Net is not all about e-mails and chatting. To a large number of persons, the Internet is about music, both online and downloadable. This week in the entertainment section, let's explore the huge resource on music available on the Internet.

If you are an ardent music lover, then www.songsearch.net site has a lot for you, as this site is a huge resource of music from across the globe. This site functions similar to a search engine and you can search the music of your choice by artist, title, catalogue number, or song. You can also find the music by searching it on the basis of Alphabetical Artist Listings, Alphabetical Album Title Listings, and Music Genre Listings. There are several channels on this site and some of the popular channels are Internet Radiosearch, Net Oldies Radio, Net Oldies Playlist, KPIG Radio, KPIG Playlist, Hober Radio, The Music Crossroads, Grammys, Billboard, Goldmine. A comprehensive site on online music, but you may not find much on Indian languages.

If you are searching for music in Indian language, then you can log on to the site www.indianmuseek.com. This is a good site on Indian music and here you can select the category of music like Film music, Classical, Music ring, Devotional, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Gujarati, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu etc. These are the various channels of this site and here you can find the music of your taste. Furthermore, there are also Indian music categorised directory, where you can find categorised directories like Categorised Directory- Film, Categorised Directory-Classical, Categorised Directory-Bhajan etc. A good site on Indian music.

There is another good site on Indian music www.hindisong.com. This site is well laid out and you can find some interesting channels like Jhalak for movie reviews, critics reviews for Bollywood and Hollywood movies, Tarane- songs from films and pop and others, Guldasta- Interviews with a celebrity, Aaj Kal- Movies and music.

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