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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Leadership is when a Lion leads team of donkeys and still succeeds....

- Mihir Sangani

Sunday, February 22, 2009

When the going gets tough.... the sensible one's go and party!!! :D 

Friday, February 20, 2009

શબ્દોની વચ્ચે છોડેલી ખાલી જગ્યા… વાંચી શકીશ?

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શબ્દોની વચ્ચે
છોડેલી ખાલી જગ્યા…
વાંચી શકીશ?

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આટલું જાણ્યું સખા ! એ પ્રીત પણ પ્યારી નથી,
સંગ એની એક-બે જો વેદના પાળી નથી.

જો પ્રણયની રાહ તેં આંસુથી શણગારી નથી,
છો સફરમાં હોય તું, પણ એ સફર તારી નથી.

વાંસળીની જેમ વાગી ના શકે તો જાણજે,
છે હજી પણ કૈંક અંદર… સાવ તું ખાલી નથી !

વ્હાલનાં વરસાદમાં પણ સાવ કોરો રહી જશે,
તું નહીં પલળે કદી, જો છતને ઓગાળી નથી.

પ્રેમને ઈશ્વર સમજ ને ભાગ્ય કર તું વ્હાલકુ,
ફર્ક શો છે હાથની રેખા જો હૂંફાળી નથી?!

હોમતી રહે છે મને કાયમ વિરહની અગ્નિમાં,
તોયે તારી યાદને મેં તો કદી ટાળી નથી.

પ્રીત, ઊર્મિ, બેબસી ને દર્દથી સજતી રહી,
જિંદગીને મેં સખા ! કંઈ ખાસ કંડારી નથી.

-’ઊર્મિ’
Log yaha pyar kar ke pachtate hai,
Humne to dosto pachta kar pyar kiya,
Log Inkar ke darr se Izhar nahi karte,
Humne Inkar sun-ne ke liye izhar kiya...!

- Chirag Vajani
Akele hain lekin hum tanha nahi hai,
Door ho kar bhi aapse Juda nahi hai,
Aapke deedar humne kiye hai jabse,
Nazaro se aapka chehra hat-ta nahi nahi…!

- Chirag Vajani
Excellence is not for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction and efficiency...
- Unknown

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Organize Music Library

Organize playlist, iPod playlist, iTunes Playlist, ID3 Tags, Music File Information, Organize music library with ID3 Tags

Ever wondered looking at your iPod or WMP /iTunes / Winamp playlist why the hell it doesn't display the correct information about Artist / Album / Song name/ Track Number etc ??Go on, read further and find out more about what's the problem and how to solve it. Organize your music with a little help of official free download software.

So, Here are few of the reasons why it doesn't show correct information especially for Bollywood / Hindi songs and South Asian pop / music albums.

- Pirated Music Tracks (the biggest issue)
- Downloaded from websites, who modify the tags and put their web address as info for their publicity
- Incorrectly ripped songs
- Inappropriate format conversion
- Copied from Torrents

These are some of the common reasons behind the incorrect tags. Let me try and bust the jargon first

Q: What are ID3 Tags? or What is Tag in music files
A: Tags are the information about the song. Artist, Album, Composer, Year, Track number, etc. So in simple words its personal information for the song you listen to. More information on Wiki

Q: What is rip / ripping (songs)?
A: Rip is converting / burning music from CD format to mp3 or WMA or other supported format as per the software you use. More information on Wiki

Q: What is Software?
A: Buy yourself some life if you ask this question.

Q: What is iTunes / Winamp / WMP?
A: iTunes is Apple Computer's Music software that plays, arrange, update your music file. Its free for download here.
Winamp is a freeware does the same job as iTunes but in a different way. Again its available for free download here.
WMP is Windows Media Player built in to Microsoft Windows. Its bundled software and upgrades are available for download here.

So here is what you need to do in order to update the tags. Earlier I used to use iTunes to manually modify the tags on each song which took ages for me to do it but though I could not do it for all of them for all the information. Still, I was determined to organize my music in order to get the maximum ease of use for my new iPod.

To manually modify the ID3 tags using iTunes, follow this process.

1. Open iTunes
2. Go to Library
3. Right Click on the song and select "Get Information"
Itunes-Get info
4. You can modify the song information here from the 2nd Tab.
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Its much easier to do it when you are updating your library with couple of albums as you can sort out the song list by :

1. Adding only one album at a time
2. Sort it by "Date Added"
3. Right click on first file follow the manual process and modify info
4. Click on next instead of closing it and it will select the next song on the list.

So you are already in a trauma that it will take ages to get this done ?? don't worry about it, that's where the next process comes to help us.

1: Download Winamp here
2: Follow the instructions for installation of Winamp
3: Once winamp is installed, start it and play few songs for test

After these steps you are ready to begin the real work. Now this is not going to be as simple as clicking and follow, its a bit difficult then that. But don't let the put you off, I have simplified the process for beginners.

1. Open Winamp
2. Add songs from one album or as many as 20 songs in the playlist
3. Select all the songs, right click and choose option Send to > Auto Tag
New Picture (2)
4. This will add all the songs to Auto Tag plug-in of Winamp which is built in, it will start to analyze and query them to the server and find out the tag information.
New Picture (3)
5. After all of them are queried and has results, it will display the results in "pan" below the list of the songs. Carefully select the songs to apply changes as its 95% accurate not 100%.

In order to optimize the results, modify the tags manually with at least one information in the tags. This is essential for those songs which has only numbers and no album or artist information at all. Those songs downloaded from webs mostly has some info followed by the url which is auto corrected by winamp quite easily.

After this is done, and you apply changes. You can skip the next step or follow it for making your music extremely organised.

You need to download ID3 TagIT and install it. Please follow instructions mentioned on the web for the software.

Once you have the software downloaded and installed. Here is what you need to do.

1. Start ID3 TagIT
2. Select songs from one album or as many as 20 songs
3. Select how you want to rename the songs, E.g.: Artist - Album - title, title - Album, title - album - artist.
4. Apply changes, this will rename all your songs as per your preference. I personally do it with title - Album. Which makes it extremely easy to find them using Windows search, Linux find, iPod and other music files.

After all these efforts, you will have the most organized music library and you will thank yourself for this.

If you have suggestions, comments, critics, please post them as comments. I will be glad to hear from you.

PS: I will update the post with Snapshots for process as soon as I get some time.

Regards,

Mihir Sangani

Download Links:

1: Apple iTunes
2: Winamp
3: ID3 TagIT
4: Microsoft Windows Media Player

Unix, DOS and Windows...the good, the bad and the ugly

- Unknown Geek

Friday, February 6, 2009

Kabhi kabhi mere dil mein khayal aata hai....

While I am posting this .. I am lisning to the song Kabhi Kabhi ... a remix version by Bally Sagoo. I love that song. Its mixed with Lounge version ... and its awsome. So why post it here ???

Let me tell you what I like the most about the song, the initial dialogue ... yeah here it is ...

Kabhi Kabhi Mere Dil Mein Khayal Aata Hai
Ke Zindagi Teri Zulfo Ke Narm Chao Mein Guzarne Pati

To Shadaab Ho Bhi Sakti Thi Ye Ranj-O-Ghum Ki
Syaahi Jo Dil Pe Chai Hai Tere Nazar Ki Shuwao.N Mein

Kho Bhi Sakti Thi Magar Ye Ho Na Saka
Magar Ye Ho Na Saka Aur Ab Ye Aalam Hai

Ki Tu Nahi Tera Ghum Teri Justaju Bhi Nahi
Guzar Rahi Hai Kuch Is Tarah Zindagi Jaise

Ise Kisi Ke Sahare Ki Aarzu Bhi Nahi
Na Koi Raah Na Manzil Na Roshni Ka Suraag

Bhatak Rahi Hai Andhero Mein Zindagi Meri
Inhi Andheron Mein Reh Jaunga Kabhi Kho Kar

Main Jaanta Hu Meri Ham Nafaz Magar Yuhi
Kabhi Kabhi Mere Dil Mein Khayal Aata Hai

Now, you guyz are wondering why is that I have posted this here ??? So let me tell you why ....

Just when I thought of the dialogue, I googled it immediately and got it but that reminded me of something ...

It reminded me of a day in my life. So it was an evening in the year 1996, I remember every bit of it. I was very young and studying in Grade 7 (Standard 7). A friend of mine invited me to his house to spend some time and may be chill out after the tutions. It was holiday the next day and I had nothing to do as usual (hated studies) so I went to his house. Now, ever since he was young he was very much into music and stuffs. So, he pulled up a casset player into his bed room, pulled up this new tape by Bally Sagoo, and made me listen to this song. We listened to this song for atleast 6 - 7 times.

Boom!!!! what happend we dont know but we decided to speak the dialogue ourself ... we obviously didnt remember the dialogue even after listening to it for so many times. So what do we do???

Idea!!!! Lets keep playing the tape, repete and listen to the song again and again to write down the dialogue. We started doing it, and was thinking instead of listening to the whole song we should rewind few times and note down the dialogue. Holly cow!!! we screwed up the casset, and the player both. The thing stopped playing completely, and the casset wont even move ... We were scared till death as he was strictly warned not to play with the tape and spoil it. But hey, we were kids and obviously devil's dominating ... we simply put the player and casset back to where it was in his living room and sliped out of the house.

I remember the incident very well, we laughed a lot after that no doubt. But I guess he had to confess later on that he screwed up, thank God I was saved ....

So ... I still I think somtimes .... i.e. Kabhi kabhi mere dil mein bhi khayal aata hai ... ke woh kya din the ... wah wah ...

hope you had a giggle. ... if not ... visualise the situation remmebering your childhood ... then you may

cheers!!

Thursday, February 5, 2009

T-Shirt quote


A clear conscience is usually te sign of a bad memory.

to be honest this is more like a caption and doest suit on a t-shirt according to my thought, but anways Bombay times put it as T-Shirt quote and i just replicated ... [;)]

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

T-Shirt Quote


Where there's a will.... I want to be in it ...

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

T-Shirt Quotes / Pickup Lines ... i guess


Darking, I'm new in this town, so could I have directions to your house.


Where you arrested earlier ? It's gotta be illegal to look that good.