E-Commerce India - Flipkart and legal MP3 music download

There are many sites on Internet which allow MP3 music download but they do not offer legal or genuine mp3 songs for download. For the first time in India, here comes an e-commerce site http://flipkart.com, which offers legal download of songs in MP3 format. Flipkart has released this new offering, brand named flyte, over the last week-end.

I can browse through songs in different languages, genres, albums and tracks. I can also listen to samples of tracks before buying them. The best part is the ability to purchase (make online payments using credit card, debit card or even net banking) and download individual tracks. This would precisely help me browse and add only specific tracks (not entire albums) to my cart and download them all in one go.

Another good part is that I can transfer my downloaded songs on to any of my personal devices. If I get an opportunity to collect all my favorite songs in one format and can play them on all my personal gadgets - smartphone, MP3 player, Car stereo, Laptop or Personal Computer, what more can I ask for, as a music lover?

Online Music in India

When I was going to school way back in 80's, one priceless possession for all of us at home, was a sony tape-recorder cum radio. It's a small 'boom-box' type device, which is a fond object of one and all at home. We siblings used to follow laborious process to get songs of our interest recorded, to listen to them in this boom-box, when we come back from school. We sit together, list out all the songs of our interest, go buy an empty tape cassette, go to the recording guy and sit with him to identify if he can record all of these songs and go back after a day or two to get the recorded tape. Once recorded, we used to listen to that till the tape gets wrangled and unusable.

In the Internet Age, the above process is unthinkable. iPods and other MP3 players have changed the world completely. The songs are all available over the Internet for free. There are sites like http://gaana.com,  http://saavn.com, http://musicindiaonline.com and http://raaga.com, which allow streaming of songs over the Net. I can create my own playlist and play all those songs repetitively as long as I have a network connection from my device. A broadband connection, with unlimited download capacity, is quite common these days, which makes my song-listening experience enjoyable all the time at home.

I still want to keep that sony tape-recorder as it would become an expensive vintage item soon :-)