Bollywood music, iPod and Windows ME
There’s some funky new bollywood music that I am absolutely enjoying these days. Here’s my list of favorites this December:
- Bhool Bhulaiyaa - Niraj Sridhar (OST: Bhool Bhulaiyaa)
- Chak De India - Sukhwinder Singh, Salim Merchant and Marianne D Cruz (OST: Chak De India)
- Mumbai Salsa - Adnan Sami and Alisha Chinai (OST: Mumbai Salsa)
- Saawariya - Shail Hada (OST: Saawariya)
- Taare Zameen Par - Shankar Mahadevan, Dominique, Viviene (OST: Taare Zameen Par)
- Baadal Pe Paon Hain - Hema Sardesai (OST: Chak De India)
- Jab Se Tere Nainaa - Shaan (OST: Saawariya)
- You’re my love (OST: Partner)
- Ek Hockey Doongi Rakh Ke - Shah Rukh Khan, KK and the Hockey Team (OST: Chak De India)
- Om Shanti Om (OST: Om Shanti Om)
- Aaja Nachle - Sunidhi Chauhan (OST: Aaja Nachle)
- Hum Toh Aise Hain Bhaiyaa - Sunidhi Chauhan, Shreya Ghoshal, Swanand Kirkire and Pranab Biswas (OST: Laaga Chunari Mein Daag)
While the mix CD I picked up was good for the car stereo, I had trouble transferring this foot-tapping music to my iPod shuffle. Couple of reasons, One: The latest iTunes version is only available for XP and Vista—not available for Windows ME, my parents’ OS; and two: the computer failed to recognize the iPod.
Plan-B (that worked for me): Installed the USB storage driver for Windows 98, and rebooted. Windows ME recognized my iPod and designated a drive letter to it. Next, I downloaded and executed YamiPod; through its simple interface I selected the assigned iPod drive letter and iPod type. YamiPod then pulled up my current list of music from the player. I was able to delete some tracks—I no longer wished to listen to—and then dragged and dropped the new music files into it; and my iPod was ready for the road again.
Hi there Chetan! We do not see or hear much Bollywood around here. The last that was on the news was about the British “reality show”, which had a Bollywood star in it. Much of the Bollywood I have seeing has come from Youtube, and it has been a funny video of some type (like this one, that made me pee on my pants when I saw it).
Windows Me? Wow! You are the only person I know that have used —and still uses!— Windows Me (also known as “mistake edition”). Is it just because the hardware can’t handle, at least Windows 2000 workstation? Just curious…
Happy New Year!
Dec 28, 07 at 12:29Windows ME? Good gods man, that is not something I would admit publicly. How about Xubuntu? Or Fluxbuntu? Something, anything, but not Micro$oft.
Dec 28, 07 at 14:52@David: LOL on your perceptions about Bollywood
. Like every film industry in the world, Bollywood has more than a fair share of goofs and idiocy—much of what you see on Youtube 
. But ask any Indian, and he’ll swear by it—myself included, for there are quality films aplenty that are really worth your money.
@David, Robert:
Hehe. Oh how I agree with you; I have spent enough time thinking about it, and trying out stuff on this old hardware. Two problems: My parents have grown comfortable using Windows ME over the last five years, and I hate to throw their habits out and replace with an interface they may have no clue about; or atleast until I have enough time to take them through the ropes of a new OS. In fact, I came determined this time with a CD of Xubuntu Gutsy; but the darn thing doesn’t support our old 14″ Samtron CRT. Moire fringes seen. Win2000 may just kill this computer, so no go.
As this Celeron hardware will see another year, I thought it would be best if I just left it patched and make it usable enough to get on with my folks’ simple routine—check email and lookup information.
As for me, I am reliving the nostalgia of all the forgotten stuff, and trying to make them work. It’s fun as well as a challenge—at times
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Dec 28, 07 at 15:20hear songs from the movie Welcome are pretty good too.
Dec 28, 07 at 16:26Hmmm, yes, understandable about the software and your parents — I wouldn’t want to put mine through that either.
Here are some ideas for securing WinME: ClamWin is an open source anti-virus/anti-spyware program that might help. osswin.sourceforge.net looks like it might point the way towards an open source firewall.
Though this probably wouldn’t work for your parents, cl33n (cl33n.com) is an interesting idea — a portable desktop environment suitable for web browsing.
Happy registry hacking!
Dec 29, 07 at 01:14are you back here in India? Give a call !
Dec 29, 07 at 08:03Amazon releasing drm free music from warner
Dec 31, 07 at 05:33