4.0 What are P-stats?


P-stats is the name given to the details of the songs on RMIM, details such as Movie, Singers, Music Directors, and Lyricist.

4.1 I need details of a song, but I am not sure if it has been asked before on RMIM?


There is a big collection of such P-stats that has been created by the contribution of various RMIM-ers. Check with this database before posting on RMIM.

4.2 Why are they called P-stats?


The original P-stats file was re-compiled and posted on RMIM by Preetham Gopalaswamy , hence the name. Here is an excerpt from the original posting by Preetham on the P-stats database.

Here is the list of songs that were originally posted by Mangesh Jain completed as far as I could with help from other netters some of whom are named below. Most of the information comes from the Encyclopaedia of Hindi Music compiled by Harminder Singh and the later volume by a guy whose name eludes me now. Since there was no alphabetical listing of songs for the 50s, I had to rely upon help from other nettors who were able to give me a prod in the right direction with the name of the film. Where the name of the film was unknown for songs from the 50s, I was unable to get the information. I did not have the volume for the 40s and songs in that decade have been unconfirmed. The same was true for songs in the 80s (1979 being the last year in the encyclopaedia).

4.3 What is the P-stats database?


This is the list of songs with their details, which is stored in the following format:

4.4 Where is the P-stats database?


P-stats database in not archived anywhere. People have different copies of it. It is not available through FTP or any other means. Also this database is too huge to be posted every now and then on RMIM.

Original contributors towards the creation of the P-stats database were Sunil Banwari, Dr. Umesh Garg, Preetham Gopalaswamy (compiled modified list), Mangesh Jain (posted the original list), Dharmendra Khanolkar, Prince Kohli, Deviprasad Malladi, Dr. Rajan Parrikar and Suresh Subramanian.

4.5 How can I access the P-stats info database?


Mail
A simple mail to pkohli@cc.gatech.edu with an appropriate subject will allow you to extract information from the P-stats database. This access to the P-stats database is made available through the RMIM AutoMailer (question 16)

You can send mail to pkohli@cc.gatech.edu requesting for information on a particular song. If the song that you requested is there in the P-stats database, then you will get the reply with the available information about the song.

Web
You can search the songs in this database through the WWW interface also. Check with this database to see if the song that you want is present.

4.6 I have some song information with me and I want to add to them to the P-stats database. What do I do?


Send them in the following format to Prince or Satish .

[Previous][Main Menu][Next]

Maintained by Satish Subramanian