About this site

The pages on this website are created by importing the ASCII itrans song files and putting them all in database. I am working on creating interfaces for people to correct the pages.

Contact me if you have any suggestions/ideas.

Features:

• Automatic transliteration from ITRANS lyrics to unicode. (This is a bootstrapping step, once all lyrics are reasonably converted, ascii text will be archived and removed! Unfortunately automatic transliteration for movie names and singer/lyricist/stars is not done as they are not entered as consistently in ITRANS!). This is where community could help.
• Full cross-reference: movie to songs to people.
• Discussion threads for each song/movie/person

Todo / Limitations :

• Fix database inconsistencies - Same name spelt differently is counted seperately. Different movies with the same name got merged together. Work on community admin features is in progress.
• Automatic import from r.m.i.m newsgroup
• Automatic import from other websites

Credits:

• Avinash Chopde - ITRANS creator.
• Numerous contributors to ITRANS song book.
• Ruby on Rails - The cool framework which helped me build this site in a matter of days!
• V.S. Rawat for his A. R. Rahman song lyrics website.
• Vinay P. Jain / Giitaayan - for keeping the ISB spirit going.