The best Indian music streaming site

I recently discovered Dhingana and I'm just loving it! Its definitely the best Indian music streaming site ever. Not to mention, its FREE! Here's how Dhingana is better than the competition (raaga.com, musicindiaonline.com)

Dhingana Player

  • No annoying ads: I just abhor the pop-ups that plague raaga.com. MusicIndiaOnline is also mostly ads-free though.
  • Excellent user interface: Dhingana is really easy to use. The interface is uncluttered, uses AJAX where it makes sense, doesn't require registration to play songs. Its also much much simpler to navigate the collection and search for songs. Brightly colored tabs at the top show intuitive categories – movies, pop, remixes, ghazals, religious etc.
  • Better portability: Dhingana works on pretty much all browsers on pretty much all platforms (yes, on Linux as well). They use a flash based player, and since the popularity Google video and YouTube have pretty much made Flash ubiquitous, it mostly works. I've yet to get Raaga working on Linux (I've tried with RealPlay as well as the Helix player – something or the other just keeps breaking down). Ditto with MusicIndiaOnline
  • Personalization: Dhingana lets you rate songs, and create your own “Smart lists” (smart lists need you to log in though).
  • Better technology: Now I don't know the details of how Dhingana works, but it certainly seems to be much faster at streaming songs (the entire song is available within seconds and then I can skip to any location in the song. Even under heavy BitTorrent downloads, I can hear the music just fine). The audio quality also seems way better.

You can find a detailed list of features and more on the website. So go ahead, give it a spin! Enjoy!

  1. Dhingana 360
  2. Indian Indie Music
  3. Forget Raaga, check out Dhingana
  4. Pandora
  5. Social Radio
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5 Comments

  1. Posted August 10th, 2006 at 8:34 am | Permalink

    yes! its the coolest one :-) hav u checked their ‘mGreeting’ feature?? pretty unique and amazing concept… u can send the greetings to ur dear ones with full of music!

    dhingana truly rocks!

  2. Posted August 10th, 2006 at 10:51 am | Permalink

    me likes..thanks for the introduction to “the” one music player

  3. Posted August 10th, 2006 at 2:53 pm | Permalink

    *@aditya*: Hey Aditya! Have i seen you around here before? If not, welcome! Yeah, I’ve looked at mGreeting, but am yet to send someone one :-) Spread the word man!

    *@disha*: Glad you like it :)

  4. Manish
    Posted January 10th, 2007 at 11:23 am | Permalink

    try musicmazaa.com.It has been around for two years. Initial little bit slow on updates, they have been catching up now I guess

  5. Posted February 13th, 2009 at 2:41 am | Permalink

    i wanthindi song free download

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