Music and Mobile

I listen to loads of songs at home. Thousands of songs are stored in my hard disk consuming huge amounts of storage space. The best way to listen to them is to play those songs in a randomly shuffled playlist. There is no better feeling than listening to song Awesome Song after a long time and drowning in that ocean of music.

But when it comes to Mobile, we have a very limited storage space. Often not more than 4GB or 8GB. Now, if you take truck loads of photos and download hundreds of apps just to try them out, then there’d be acute shortage of space. With so much space constraints, we often end up storing just a dozen albums and listen repeatedly to the same again and again and again. Or if you are fortunate enough to live in a city like Chennai or Mumbai you can alternatively choose to listen to the wonderful radio stations.

I feel that there needs to be a way with which we can sync our music files on the computer with the mobile seamlessly. There is the DropBox app available with which we can sync files. But again that too has very limited space for the unpaid version and am not too sure how effective that is for music files.

There are various internet radio options which exist. Like Pandora. But majority of them don’t support listening through mobile or are restricted to the US due to licensing constraints.

Grooveshark app is available to solve most of our problems but its collection of Indian songs is VERY limited and moreover it is a paid service.

Any service that lets me listen to my choice of songs direct from the internet through my mobile would be awesome. If implemented in an attractive and impressive way, it does have an opportunity to become huge. If there is any such existing service that I am unaware of, then do let me know in the comments.

The Change

Its hard to imagine that barely ten years ago we didn’t have any Wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube,  iPhone or even a phone for that matter. Much of the decade has been shaped by the internet and the next decade too will see the same sort of enormous change.

It was in 2001 when we got our first phone. A landline phone connection for which we had to wait for weeks. Within the next few years we have had a much greater number of mobile phones. Computers and other gadgets have become essential. Times are changing. And we got keep up with the speed at which everything is happening.

What people generally consider is that change will occur at the same pace it happened. Technology changes exponentially. There is a great pace at which everything grows now and what happened in the first decade of the millenium might happen in just a few years.

The rate of adopting new ideas is doubling each day. Both biology and technology are similar. They are both evolutionary processes.  They create a capability and use that capability to bring on the next stage. With better interaction and communication this growth is bound to accelerate.

It was barely a few years ago when I first sent an e-mail. Now mail, instant messages etc are a part of life. A few days ago I made a list of the trends which I’d like to see in the year 2010. These are impending changes. Even if they don’t occur in 2010, they eventually will…