13.0 I want to listen to live songs on the computer. Can I do that? If so how?


Yes it is possible, if you computers have audio capabilities. There are a few samples (not complete songs) of Hindi (film songs and ghazals), Tamil and Telugu songs available. Details about where one can get these song samples are given below. This faciltity may not be permanent. There are more sites listed in the question 16.0

What follows is obsolete

NOTE 1: Providing audio files on the Internet may be a copyright violation!
NOTE 2: Do note that these files are HUGE! So please do not FTP them frequently. Also do the file transfer only at OFF-peak hours. Juhana (the site maintainer) has kindly agreed to archive these files there, so please do not misuse the facility and risk losing it.

There are quite a few FTP and WWW sites from which you can get audio files that you can listen to on the computer. See question 16 for more info on sites.
Juhana writes about some of the samples files available:
Here are some music samples. They are not meant to be entire songs, just a samples. I hope that people will recognize them and maybe write lyrics for them and send lyrics to me.

I have no intend to keep these samples very long here; I would like to make room for further samples instead that I waste disk space and barely get just few songs here.

I have recorded all music from radio and these are sampled from the tape copy of the tape; I don't carry my good tapes anywhere and don't play them in the 'walkman' player I have here, so I have to copy.

Samples are playable in Sparcstations by using 'play', 'xsoundtool' or 'cat file > /dev/audio'. I suggest to use at least 'play' because you can set the volume with it.

Please do use 'binary' mode in your FTP program when you transfer these files. If somebody put these samples or part of them to other FTP site please tell me -- it's more appreciated if US people can load these from US site.

Juhana Kouhia

NOTE: Be courteous and do not go overboard and try to ftp all these files.
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