Shruti - Worldspace is coming online

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 18 Jul 2007, 19:30

This may be useful for those of you not in india.

THis satellite channel is coming online (internet) soon

http://www.worldspace.in/onlineradio/register.asp

I like most of the programs, and is very informative

-hari

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 18 Jul 2007, 21:43

this is great! I hear (from my folks back at home) that the programs on it are excellent

vinayo · Post by **vinayo** » 19 Jul 2007, 01:15

Thanks s_hari for this useful information. Looking forward to the "internetcast".

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 19 Jul 2007, 01:52

Thank you for the information. When we are in India, we have 'Sruthi' on, all wakeful hours!

emyesbee · Post by **emyesbee** » 19 Jul 2007, 03:21

That's a great news! My mom is enjoying Shruti in Chennai, now I also might experience it soon

jananee · Post by **jananee** » 19 Jul 2007, 05:55

Thanks..This is great news..Look forward to listening to it soon..

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 19 Jul 2007, 10:53

I was initially skeptical about Shruthi but the programming really has me floored. It is clearly driven by people who care a lot about the art. Interviews with vidwans and discussions on finer points of ragas are just some examples. The carnatic channel is far more informative, for example, than its Hindusthani counterpart Gandharv which is a more standard "AIR style" presentation...

My only crib is that they have a kitschy "instrumental hour" at 11PM which is just when I settle down to listen to music!

Sam Swaminathan · Post by **Sam Swaminathan** » 20 Jul 2007, 02:23

This is God given !!! Boy, am I looking forward to its inaguration !!! Sitting in NZ, the timing is going to be a big issue. But I am hopeful of doing some thing which will make it work for me. Any ideas on this will be most welcome. For your convenience, NZ is 12 hours ahead of GMT.

Cheers

rrao13 · Post by **rrao13** » 28 Jul 2007, 19:30

Has Worldspace Radio broadcasting in USA? When I go to their website, it is not showing USA in the coverage map. Any update is highly appreciated. Thanks.

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 29 Jul 2007, 22:00

Hi Rao, very soon they should be starting their internet broadscast, stay tuned...

s_hari · Post by **s_hari** » 07 Aug 2007, 09:19

here is the link

http://worldspace.msnserver.com/

There is a 24 hour free trial going on right now. I think, they are charging Rs.400 / USD 9.99 for one month subscription. If interested, try out

-hari

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 08 Aug 2007, 05:11

I have been trialling the internet service, listening to the Sruthi channel. Had a few problems with my browser freezing up trying to access the channels but it worked after several attempts.

I heard a program hosted by G Ravikiran featuring krithis in allied ragas (nilambari, kedaram, kurinji and navroj). It featured renditions from various aristes with some commentary about the ragas by G Ravikiran. This was quite informative The other programs I hear didn't have a theme.

Of what I heard, only krithis were being played without any raga or swara elaboration. This was quite disappointing. I beleive there is a weekly concert program which features an entire concert.

Being an online service, I was restricted to hearing the music on the computer (unless you run cables to your music system or use an FM transmitter).

For now I would not pay $US10 for the internet service. Unfortunately the satellite radio service is not available for Australia.

vinayo · Post by **vinayo** » 08 Aug 2007, 05:42

Disappointing.

(1) Took time to get access to the site . (2) Many distracting features on the site. (3) Free trial only for a day!!

Ashwin · Post by **Ashwin** » 08 Aug 2007, 21:08

I was also unable to listen to any stations due, it appeared, to network traffic. However, I think this idea has a lot of potential and CM is being given a very important place, so I think we just need to give it some time to work out the kinks. Perhaps Sruthi Worldspace can entice those of us who could not satisfactorily access the music with another free trial...

Ashwin

Sam Swaminathan · Post by **Sam Swaminathan** » 09 Aug 2007, 01:51

The system is not being consistent. I logged on for the first time yesterday at noon. This monring, some 18 hours later, it is asking me to put in a new password. When I tried that, it says, the old password is wrong. It was the password given by the system and now it claims it is wrong. There seems to be no help available on line. I give up now and wait for this to settle down.

But what little I heard, it was good and it is worth the trouble.

Cheers

Sam

mahaspeaking · Post by **mahaspeaking** » 09 Aug 2007, 11:11

mohan wrote:The other programs I hear didn't have a theme. I beleive there is a weekly concert program which features an entire concert. Being an online service, I was restricted to hearing the music on the computer (unless you run cables to your music system or use an FM transmitter).

Please visit http://www.worldspace.in/shruti/schedule for Shruti's ten day radio programme guide. This page provides a brief descriptor to each program, and lets you know of thematic and/or commemorative specials.

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 09 Aug 2007, 12:54

mahaspeaking wrote:Please visit http://www.worldspace.in/shruti/schedule for Shruti's ten day radio programme guide. This page provides a brief descriptor to each program, and lets you know of thematic and/or commemorative specials.

I listen to radio at various times when I am free - I know there is a schedule but it is quite hard for me to specifically tune into particular shows. It is even harder given the various time zones we all live in.

sridhar · Post by **sridhar** » 20 Aug 2007, 01:47

is this in real audio format (streaming) ?

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 24 Aug 2007, 21:12

I tried this yesterday and have listened so far to about 2 hours. *Excellent* audio quality - and only 2 pauses in streaming so far (quickly recoverable).

If you have a high speed connection, I think this works quite well.

$10 per month is not cheap - but it is for all 5 channels. Would have been better if they had separate pricing for separate channels.

I will still subscribe to it I think. $10 is an average of two lunches per month (i do eat out a lot). I think I can easily compromise that for being able to listen to carnatic music anytime I want that month - I mean if I look at it that way, its not even an argument

!

Note: it works only IE. Not on firefox, Safari

PS: As I type this, I am listening to a program on Abheri and its controversy hosted by Ravi Kiran (I am not sure if it is Chitraveena Ravikiran - it I think is G. Ravikiran our forum member?)

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 24 Aug 2007, 22:43

I believe it is our fellow forum member G Ravikiran

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 25 Aug 2007, 00:09

I too registered yesterday - but there seems to be some glitch.

I was able to listen yesterday, but today it is giving me some java script error. Not sure what's happening..

-Ramakriya

kalgada78 · Post by **kalgada78** » 25 Aug 2007, 01:19

It plays fine on a system where real player is installed. At my work place,there's only Windows media player;so,it's not playing at all.

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 25 Aug 2007, 02:08

I had listened to almost 1.5 hours today (a lot of that Abheri program). Then had to go for lunch (see? I am not that addicted to cm

). I came back and things just didnt work. My login had expired and I never could listen again. My 24 hour trial period has now expired. Well I guess it is Beta after all - and for that my experience was not bad at all.

Now I have to decide whether I should fork out $10 a month. I would have liked a longer trial period only given this reliability glitch. I am leaning towards going for it - if we rasikas are not ready to endure some growing pains to support such efforts, who will?

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 25 Aug 2007, 07:20

Arun,
Just curious. Don't you ever pack a lunch and take it to work? That way, you can save a lot more than ten dollars! (I know, it's none of my business to ask you this question!).

arunk · Post by **arunk** » 25 Aug 2007, 18:12

arasi - yep I do but not as often as I should. But my point was while $10 a month for a radio channel may seem a lot, in reality it is equivalent to 2 lunches (or 1 dinner).

Arun

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 25 Aug 2007, 20:13

I get it!

ninjathegreat · Post by **ninjathegreat** » 26 Aug 2007, 09:27

arasi - cooking is not that simple you know...

...

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 26 Aug 2007, 09:54

ninja,
I was not thinking of 'mother's cooking'! I meant a healthy, easlily put together something. Or a frozen mini meal to microwave and eat at lunch, with a banana or yoghurt...!

ninjathegreat · Post by **ninjathegreat** » 26 Aug 2007, 14:10

arasi - joking, joking

!!! I'm a fairly decent, albeit lazy cook...

srikant96 · Post by **srikant96** » 01 Sep 2008, 10:21

Its offline now and has vanished . let us know when its back online

cheers