Paadal Post http://www.paadal.net/blog Official blog of Paadal.com Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:48:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Collection Updates http://www.paadal.net/blog/2010/07/05/collection-updates/ http://www.paadal.net/blog/2010/07/05/collection-updates/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:51:36 +0000 admin http://www.paadal.net/blog/?p=42 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.

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If you have neglected paadal.fm due to the player issue, we encourage you to revisit.

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.

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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.

]]> http://www.paadal.net/blog/2009/09/27/data-lost/feed/ 2 More to choose, More ways to choose http://www.paadal.net/blog/2009/07/08/more-to-choose-more-ways-to-choose/ http://www.paadal.net/blog/2009/07/08/more-to-choose-more-ways-to-choose/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:09:50 +0000 admin http://paadal.net/blog/?p=19 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.

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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

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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.

]]> http://www.paadal.net/blog/2008/06/29/search/feed/ 0 First Month Anniversary http://www.paadal.net/blog/2008/06/19/first-month-anniversary/ http://www.paadal.net/blog/2008/06/19/first-month-anniversary/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:30:40 +0000 admin http://paadal.net/blog/?p=8 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

2 New Features

Data for the period May 20 2008 to June 19 2008.

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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.

]]> http://www.paadal.net/blog/2008/05/23/server-outage/feed/ 3 Why Paadal.com? http://www.paadal.net/blog/2008/05/20/why-paadalcom/ http://www.paadal.net/blog/2008/05/20/why-paadalcom/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 01:03:58 +0000 admin http://paadal.net/blog/?p=3 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.

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