Disclaimer

Songs presented in this site are NOT meant to substitute for the CD's or cassettes they were featured in. If you like a particular song, please buy that work since sales of the albums is the sole manner in which artists contributing to the work and the music company are compensated for their time and effort. Hence, the maintenance of this page does not comprise of any copyright violation. All songs and copyrights are owned by their respective creators. Maximum care is taken to avoid downloading and distribution of the song files. [ Continued ]

Things to Remember

1) Usage of this site is a privilage, not a right.
2) Configuration of Real player is your responsibility.
3) Songs cannot be downloaded. No exceptions to this rule !
4) No further support is available. However you may post your comments/questions or concerns on our discussion forum.

Notice to Webmasters

We appreciate you for providing a link to our site. However we ask that you link to our main page www.malayalavedhi.com and not to the music page itself. Please Do not link to any of the music files on our site(this is bandwidth stealing.) we are continuously monitoring and will take the necessary steps to further avoid such actions. Leeching is not tolerated. Feel free to link to our main page. We appreciate your cooperation and continuous support. Please report any of the above violations to the webmaster immediately.

 FAQ

1) I tried to download a song, but it is not working. Can you tell me how I can download a song ?

Sorry, The Songs are not downloadable by design. Please see the Disclaimer above. Therefore please Do NOT e-mail us asking instructions to download

2) Why cant you just let us download? Other Sites allow it !

Other sites may have a different agenda than Us. We do not believe in distributing copyrighted material. You may listen to any song for evaluation purposes. We do not wish to be the next Napster. Our only intention is to promote Malayalam Music.

3) Can I purchase songs or mp3's from you ?

We do NOT offer any cassettes, CD's or mp3's for sale. You can buy the featured songs from Online Indian stores. A search in Yahoo or other major search engines will provide a list of sites that offer songs for sale.

4) How much money do you make from the operation of this site ?

Malayalavedhi.com is strictly a nonprofit organization. We make absolutely NO money. This is strictly a volunteer effort. Any money generated thru advertisement goes toward the operational cost of this site.

5) Why are you spending so much time, money and other resources if you are not making any money ?

Does everything revolve around money? Music is our passion ! Our life !

6) I tried to search for Songs by Yesudas and I only got a few. Don't you have more?

As we have specified in the Search Instruction section, please use KJY for Yesudas, KSC for K.S Chithra and MGS for M.G Sreekumar.

7) When I go into a directory all files are selected. Is there a way to get around it?

Yes, If you scroll to the bottom of the page, you can click on 'none' and it will deselect all the songs for you. Now you can select the songs you want.

8) Is there a listing of all the songs, Where I can look through your collections without clicking all the folders ?

Yes, Of course, Index of All Clips is an alphabetical listing of all the songs in this site.

9) When I am listening to a song I get disconnected, and when I do get connected again my real player says cant open the location ........ file not found, why is that ?

The site was updated and the location information is no longer valid. You need to select the songs again from our site. These updates are done often for security reasons. We appreciate your co-operation and patience as we try to bring the best of Malayalam music to you.

10) Some times the music site requires a password. How do i know what this is ?

You should have a window pop automatically and shows you the username and password, If it fails to do so, simply refresh the browser. The username is automatically filled and just enter the password. You may also check out our discussion under ask Malayalavedhi for latest update news.

11) Why do I get a warning from Norton anti-virus about executing some scripts ?

Newer versions of Norton anti-virus has a feature called script-blocking. It may prevent some scripts from being executed. If this is your scenario, check out Nortons site for more details.

12) Do you suggest any particular browser to use while navigating thru your site ?

We suggest Internet Explorer 5.5. This site is designed for Internet Explorer, Screen size should be atleast 800 X 600 with a minimum of 256 colors (16 bit recommended)

 Instructions

 Listening Experience

All Songs are our originals and not from another site. Encoded in Real Audio (*.ra) 16kbs/Stereo. You must have the latest version of Real Player (Real Player Basic is free) installed and properly configured in order to listen to the songs. Help with Real Player is available from their website. Your listening experience depends on your computers physical memory, Internet connection speed, processor speed, sound card and speakers. Low system resources such as low in memory can seriously degrade the quality of Real Audio. Some symptoms of low memory playback are high pitch, screechy noise, clipping noise etc. Almost 90% of the clips presented on this site are recorded from cassette tapes. Not all tapes are created equal, therefore not all clips offer the same quality. Notably, some of the tapes I bought from Kerala suffers from abuse and neglect of local shops using it to playback/record prior to the sale. All songs were originally recorded in 44khz wave(*.wav) format and then converted to Real Audio (*.ra). Also Note that, Real Audio is almost a 1/100 compression of the original wave file.

 Search Instructions

The Music page provides a search function for your convenience. You may use this search to get a movie-wise, poet-wise, artist-wise etc. ... list of songs. Acronyms were used to identify songs to it's artists. For the artist-wise search, use the following acronyms.

KJY - Yesudas, KSC - K.S. Chithra, MGS - M G Sreekumar. An example will be a search for " KJY " will result in list of songs by Yesudas. A Search for Yesudas may also provide additional songs. If you are not sure how to spell in Manglish, try typing part of the word you are trying to find. Example, If you are looking for the songs from " Gandhi Nagar 2nd Street " try searching for " gandhi " Since the music site is arranged categorically and alphabetically finding a song should not be that hard.

Your Suggestions

 Your suggestions and feedback's are our driving force. We encourage you to sign our Guestbook and tell us what you think of our site. When providing us with your valuable suggestions keep in mind the following things.

1) Make sure your suggestion is not already implemented or the end result, presently, cannot be produced in any other ways.

2) Tell us in specific, how we can carry out this suggestion. Include what programs to use and how to use it, what script and how to etc. etc....

3) Add more songs suggestions are basically pointless since we are adding more songs as time permits, and as fast as we can get it.

4) No suggestions for downloading of the songs.

5) No suggestions to make the site look like another site.

6) Please report any errors, bugs or problems to the webmaster@malayalavedhi.com as well as in our Guestbook.

7) To avoid Redundancy, Please take a moment to read the Guestbook to make sure your point is not already made by someone else.

Disclaimers Continue

No Written, Implied, Expressed or any other types of warranties or Guarantees are provided with anything on our site. Including, but not limited to, the accuracy of information, guarantee of services, Continuity of services, Implementation and execution of services, ease of use, ease of accessibility etc.... . Usage of this site is a privilage, not a right.