Almost everyone who has anything to do with music, both ‘hindustani classical‘ and ‘popular‘ must surely have visited www.musicindiaonline.com more than a few times. This site claims itself to be the largest Indian music resource on the internet. True of course, be it hindustani classical, indipop, bollywood, fusion or regional folk, you name it and it’s all there on this site.
The difference between this site and other file hosting sites is very basic. Whereas musicindiaonline.com has it’s own files on it’s servers and has full control over the streaming quality of the music and also what files to put or remove, other sites like mediafire.com, eSnips.com, 4shared.com and the rest have no such control.
Many of us must have encountered a much wanted song on musicindiaonline.com and wished fervently that there had been a download button on this site. Alas, there is none and no trick such as changing the URL (a’la eSnips) work here.
But for few of us who desperately want a particular music file and are ready to spend a little time, there’s a way out : a simple method by which you can download a file or even multiple files in one go.
Just follow a few simple steps. Remember this trick will work with Internet Explorer only.
Go to the Start Menu > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup. Clean all the mess that has been accumulating in the browser’s cache. Once the cache is empty you may go to the musicindiaonline.com site and search for your favourite song or album just as shown in the figure below.
Select the songs to be downloaded by ticking them or if you want them all, tick ‘Select All‘.
Click the ‘Play Selected Songs‘ button. If you have not been to this site recently it will ask you to choose between Real Player and Windows Media Player. Select Windows Media Player as in the pic below :
The player will open up and your playlist will begin to play.
As the file is playing repeat Step 1 (i.e Disk Cleanup). But this time don’t clear the cache but click on the ‘View Files‘ option :
This will open a directory of Internet Cache folders as seen below :
Explore each folder (if you have cleaned your Internet Explorer Cache thoroughly, there should be four of them). You will find your playing file in one of the folders, growing by size as it plays on. Wait for the ‘Duration‘ and ‘Bit Rate‘ details to appear and click on the ‘Play Next‘ button of the player to start playing the next song in the playlist.
You may now Copy or Cut & Paste the previous file to a folder of your choice. The files are in .wma format. Keep on exploring all the folders as the second file plays on and you will find it in one of the folders. Repeat the process.
You need not play each song to it’s full length. On a fast internet connection a 15 minute song may buffer fully in a couple of minutes. But it’s important that you wait for the ‘Duration‘ and ‘Bit Rate‘ details to appear before copying (or cut & paste) the file.
Keeping in mind that musicindiaonline.com has music streaming at a very low bitrate (20-24 kbps) an album consisting of 6-7 songs may be downloaded in 4 to 5 minutes.
PARTHA MUKHERJEE said,
July 14, 2009 at 1:18 pm
MANY THANKS FOR YOUR REPLY! AS ADVISED BY YOU I CLEARED THE BROWSER CACHE & TRIED BUT THE RESULT IS SAME. TO CONFIRM THE PROBLEM I TRIED WITH OTHERS’ COMPUTER & EXPERIENCED THAT AS I CLICK ON “MORE” OPTION, ON THE FIRST PAGE OF HINDUSTANI VOCALS, AS USUAL NO MORE PAGE OPENS UP & THE BROWSER STOPS WORKING!THEN I GOT REALIZED THAT IT WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH MY PC I THINK! BUT THE HINDUSTANI INSTRUMENTAL IS PLAYING OUT NORMALLY & I SEE ALL THE ARTISTS IN DIFFERENT PAGES! WHY WITH VOCALS. I CAN NOT UNDERSTAND !!BUT AS YOU SAY THAT YOU DID NOT HAVE ANY SUCH PROBLEM , THAT IS CONFUSING! ANYWAY IF YOU CAN PROVIDE ME ANY SUGGESTIONS!
REGARDS
PARTHA MUKHERJEE
indianraga said,
July 14, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Try clicking on this direct link :
http://www.musicindiaonline.com/music/hindustani_vocal/i/
If this does not work, then delete all cookies on your system and try again. I am not experiencing any problem, so there is definitely nothing wrong with the musicindiaonline.com site.
PARTHA MUKHERJEE said,
July 14, 2009 at 3:20 pm
MANY THANS AGAIN INDIAN RAGA FOR YOUR REPLY! BUT I ALSO CLEARD ALL COOKIES FROM MY PC & TRIED TO GET INTO THE SITE FROM THE LINK SUPPORTED BY YOU, BUT ALAS. STILL IT DOESN’T WORK OUT! I’M REALLY FRUSTRATED & DON’T KNOW HOW TO RESOLVE THIS PROBLEM! I’M SO BADLY DEPRIVED OF LISTENING TO MY FAVOURITE CLASSICAL RENDITIONS OF DIFFERENT ARTISTS!!! IF ANYONE COULD REALLY HELP ME OUT!!!!!!!!I I WOULD REMAIN EXTREMELY OBLIGED TO!
REGARDS
PARTHA MUKHERJEE
PARTHA MUKHERJEE said,
July 14, 2009 at 5:02 pm
INDIAN RAGA THIS IS TO INFORM YOU THAT AS I CLICK ON “MORE” OPTION ON THE 1ST PAGE OF HINDUSTANI VOCALS , I FIND THE PHISHING FILTER ISN’T WORKING & AT THE EXTREME CORNER BOTTOM LEFTOF THE SCREEN , IT SHOWS AS “DONE”…. & BROWSER DOESN’T WORK! BUT THE POINT IS, THEN WHY WITH INSTRUMENTAL SITE ITS OK? ANY GUIDANCE FROM YOU ? PLEASE.
RGDS
PARTHA MUKHERJEE
Partha Mukherjee said,
July 15, 2009 at 12:39 pm
ITS SIMPLY ASTONISHING THAT THE OTHER PAGES OF HINDUSTANI VOCALS ARE NOT OPENING UP FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS! BUT THE INSTRUMENTAL PAGES ARE OPENING NORMALLY & TRIDENT IS WORKING FINE! THEN WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE OTHER PAGES OF HINDUSTANI VOCALS? ANY BODY EXPERIENCING SAME PROBLEM? I TRIED WITH OTHER COMPUTERS BUT THE RESULT IS SAME! I HOPE THE SITE IS UNDERGOING SOME ALTERATIONS! PLEASE HIGHLIGHT ON THIS ISSUE!
RGDS
PARTHA MUKHERJEE
indianraga said,
July 15, 2009 at 2:06 pm
@ Partha Mukherjee
I repeat that everything is O.K at musicindiaonline.com. All the pages of various Hindustani Vocal artists are opening. The only thing you may do is to ask your friends in other loactions to confirm whether it’s true. Another thing you may try is, instead of clicking on the link, copy the link and paste it in the address bar and click GO or just press ENTER.
PARTHA MUKHERJEE said,
July 16, 2009 at 5:53 pm
INDIAN RAGA I TAKE PLEASURE TO INFORM YOU THAT ALL PAGES OF VOCAL MUSIC ARE NOW OPENING NORMALLY & EVERYTHING IS FUNCTIONING QUITE COMFORTABLY! MANY THANKS FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION & HELP & REDRESSAL!
REGARDS
PARTHA MUKHERJEE
musicanelanima said,
July 26, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Indian raga i m using vista and mio player is saving temp files as a dat files.
why i don’t know last year it was working for me i got a lot of music from it but know its not working.i can see the files in the temp folder also i cut and paste it to another location but no way.because its a dat file not a wma file.plz help me what to do.thanks
Cheers
Tanveer Ahmed
indianraga said,
July 27, 2009 at 8:30 am
@ musicanelanima
Please go through Comment # 28.
rish said,
September 19, 2009 at 11:34 am
great job
Rajesh P K said,
October 5, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Hi,
your procedure of downloading is not working for me.I cleaned up my disc E and started playing the selected songs in WMP.In repeating the disc cleaning I can find three files to delete namely recycle bin,compress old files and Catalog files for the Content Indexer all with 0KB.the view files tab appears only for recycle bin. Please help.
indianraga said,
October 5, 2009 at 2:59 pm
@ Rajesh P K
Check if you have allotted any space for IE cache at all. Open IE > Tools > Internet Options > General > Temporary Internet Files > Settings > Amount of disc space to use : must be at least 200MB. You may also view the Cache files from this tab itself.
Awdhesh said,
November 4, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Great work for me.Because all film are availabe in musicindiaonline and now we can download it.”Thansk indian raga”
Shah said,
November 16, 2009 at 1:01 am
thanks buddy
PARTHA MUKHERJEE said,
November 16, 2009 at 5:02 pm
HELLO INDIAN RAGA! I HAD POSTED A PROBLEM I’M FACING NOW WHICH I HAD PUT IN OVER HERE ON 15.11.09 , BUT AS I DIDN’T RECEIVE ANY REPLY GROM YOUR END I’M PUTTING THE ISSUE HERE AGAIN & SOLICIT YOUR ADVICE! CAN YOU TELL ME AS TO HOW I CAN DOWNLOAD BHAJANS OF ANUP JALOTA AS POSTED BY SHIBNATH KHAN IN http://www.esnips.com/web/Bhajan—AnupJalota. EARLIER I HAD DOWNLOADED SOME SONGS FROM THERE USING THE WAY LIKE CHANGING THE SONG LINK FROM doc to nsdoc—THEN THE LAST PORTION TO — /ts_id/1215858421531/ns_flash/file88.mp3, AND HIT THE ENTER , THE THE SONG WOULD GET DOWNLOADED EASILY!! BUT NOW THIS DOESN’T WORK ANYMORE. AS I TRY THIS OUT & REDIRECTS ME TO WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER & THE NEITHER THE SONG PLAYS NOR IT GETS DOWNLOADED! SO PLS. HELP ME TO GIVE ME A SOLUTION AS TO HOW TO DOWNLOAD FROM ESNIPS.COM !
LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR EARLIEST REPLY & HELP!
REGARDS
PARTHA MUKHERJEE.
indianraga said,
November 16, 2009 at 6:30 pm
@ PARTHA
Sorry for the delay in resolving your problem. I was away for a week.
In spite of being a regular visitor on this blog, it seems that you are unaware of the “eSnips Downloader”. This little device, which I specially developed for eSnips, is in use for the last 20 months or so. It’s very simple to use and downloading from eSnips is a matter of just 2 clicks of the mouse.
Just click the “eSnips Downloader” link in the “What’s Hot” section of the sidebar of this blog and follow the instructions.
Hope this helps you.