Official blog of Paadal.com
Once a while, we try to add more content along with adding more features. Now is one such time, we have added lot of devotionals, pop albums, instrumentals, drama and background music tracks. Check them out here
Some movies have more songs added.
Some albums have more songs added
More episodes in Nam Kudumbam
As always, we are open to feedback.
Recently, many users reported issues with the Paadal.fm player. Users were able to select keywords for a station, but were unable to listen, since the player wasnt playing. This was happening only in IE and Chrome browsers. Mozilla Firefox had no issues with the player. A minor, but hard to track down bug was the reason. But its FIXED now. The Paadal.fm player works consistently across all browsers.
In general, a reported bug gets looked into when substantial number of users report it. This is due to our limited resources (both time and money). For a site with scarce resources, it is impractical to look into every bug/feature request.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our loyal users for reporting this bug. It is with your continuous support paadal.com and paadal.fm is possible.
We have all ears open for feedback (good/bad), do not hesitate to give us some.
If you created an account with us or created a playlist during Sep 20 – Sep 27, it wont be available. The hosting provider screwed up. Don’t give up on us yet, we will be moving to a better provider to prevent issues like this from happening again.
Here’s the reason,
The hosting provider moved the site to a new server, and without checking whether the site is operational in the new one, all the data in the old server were purged. Guess what, the site didn’t work in the new server and the last backup the provider had for the old one was for Sep 20 2009. All data from Sep 20 – Sep 27 is lost.
Other than Paadal.fm, its been a while since there was any update to Paadal. Today, we did a major revamp of the content in Paadal. Many mistakes in the content were corrected, missing songs were added to albums, more albums were added, songs now contain lyrics and song writer information. Here is a quick stat
13783 Songs, 3165 of them contain lyrics
2716 Albums
684 Actors
105 Composers
906 Singers
99 Lyricsists
Ilayaraja composed around 800 albums, out of them Paadal now has 732 albums.
Let us know what you think about the new content or tweet us.
thank u paadal.com team i am bala basically from nellai, now in oil and gas industry near south china sea in vietnam fond of tamil music .after hard day work being miles away from family paadal .com is being my good mode of relaxation hats off to your service keep it up.
- avbala75
hey guyz, i have tried lot of website for listening tamil songs but, chance less yours rocking. ITZ SIMPLY SUPERB!!!!!!!!!!!
Best of luck!
Good job & continue this!- pravin
Ever since i added Shoutbox, “Search” seems to be the most requested feature. It makes perfect sense, considering the number of songs that are listed. Building a not-so-useful search is an easy task, but a useful one which would correct spellings and do suggestions is a daunting task. So I will come up with something that falls in the middle. I cannot promise a date, but “Search” is in the list of features to be added.
Its very encouraging to hear people’s feedback. I also got some interesting bugs pointed out. “Shoutbox” is totally anonymous, thats why i wrote a post to let everyone know that i am indeed reading the messages.
Also, if you experience any kind of issues (slow page loads, streaming issues etc) “Shoutbox” is the best way to let me know.
Thanks and keep listening.
Numbers, numbers, numbers, …….
26,884 page views and 5,048 visits from 64 countries
2868 tracks listened 13901 times
7689 Tracks
1184 Albums
103 Ratings
103 Registered users
71 Playlists
4 Bugs
Data for the period May 20 2008 to June 19 2008.
Check out the new features here.
Hey Everyone,
There was a server problem yesterday and the server which streams music is down for around 8-10 hours. My apologies for that. Actually, i don’t need to apologize, since its my provider who screwed up. Some other application on the server ran too many threads and it brought the server down. How lame?
This reminds me of the old saying “You get what you pay for”. I pay pennies for shared hosting and i get support worth pennies. Seriously folks, shared hosting sucks.
Hopefully, i get to move the music to a full fledged CDN someday and offer uninterrupted music.
Thanks for your patience.
First things first, my apologies for the delay in getting the site out in the wild. Thanks for waiting and I appreciate your patience.
If you are reading this, you probably would have explored the site. During your exploration, if the phrase “Its crazy dead simple” came to your mind, then the site lived its purpose. Paadal.com is designed to be simple and care is taken to avoid the usual bloat found in every other site. Hey, we don’t ask for your age/country while signing up. Just username, password, email and done! Who cares where you live, anyways?
The other difference you probably would have noticed is “No Ads”. Thats right! No “free ipod” ads to bother you in the middle of an Ilayaraja melody. No “Sexy Singles” popup to make you uncomfortable when opening the site at work.
This blog is the best place to find updates about new features and bug fixes (obviously, since the application is in beta).
My intention is to take this site as per your willing. Your feedback is important since it lays the foundation for new features and updates.
Please use comments for feedback.