Carnatic Youtube Collection

[Sath]

Thanks for pointing out your focus on search. I tried it out, and indeed, search is fantastic. In particular, being able to use approximate transliterations makes searching superb! Language options is cherry on top.

I now see there are at least two top-level use cases I see to using the app:
1) Search: when you already know what you want (app is already fantastic for this!)
2) Exploring and discovering: when you are in "exploration mode," seeking to expand your horizons

I tend to use (2) a lot: usually, I want to go discover all the songs in a certain ragam, and then pick one. The app doesn't quite work for this purpose currently, which is what motivated the feedback in my post above. BTW, your website works beautifully for exploring/discovering.

[Sath]

BTW, just for my curiosity: technically, how does transliteration work so well with your website and app? How does the app recognize "gnb" as "G. N. Balasubramaniam", or "dhwijavanthi" as the correct ragam? How do videos with different spellings for the same song get indexed correctly to the same song?

[Sath]

Ah, never mind, I tried out a fuzzy search library in python, and it actually works surprisingly well with the cases above.

[ranjanimalavi]

You have fuzzy search in python : https://whoosh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html
For javascript I use: https://lucaong.github.io/minisearch/
Fuzzy search is standard part of any scripting languages.

Challenges are in transliterations of sanskritized words into tamil like: balagopala (~ palakopala) where the fuzzy search helps

Raman

[Sath]

Good to know. The tweaks in the latest version are very good!

[MadChapu]

This is not just an index of Carnatic tracks on Youtube, but likely the most comprehensive database, literally, of all Carnatic music compositions known to mankind. Great thanks on this fantastic effort, and for open sourcing it!

[MadChapu]

@ranjanimalavi, is it helpful to you to "reduce the noise" to submit errors? And if so, what is the best way to submit errors. To be clear, error rate is quite low and it's very usable overall.

Examples: AWPqzHrkT-A, HCJFJ4fHgIo are classified as Purvi, but they should be purvikalyani.

[ranjanimalavi]

madChapu,

I have kept the errors within 2%, but some cases are not known to me.

both has same title:
Isai Chaaral Maharajapuram S Srinivasan Poorvi Kalyana Alapana"
though description has poorvikalyani and nowhere there is a song.
and title wins which has only poorvi.

There is a developer contact under:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... n_IN&gl=US
tree.logger.app@gmail.com

you can send a mail to above email, i will correct it.

Raman

[MadChapu]

Will do, @ranjanimalavi.

I created a new web app based on your wonderful database: Ragam Radio based on your database. Will post more details in a separate thread soon. See the about page, and feel free to let me know if you'd prefer to be credited differently.

Thank you again!

[ranjanimalavi]

its fine, @MadChapu

I have created all my pages, only for the reason below.
I need to thank thousands of people who have uploaded the videos, i only aggregated it.

யான் பெற்ற இன்பம் பெறுக இவ்வையகம்
This world shall get the bliss I got!

https://shaivam.org/to-practise/when-wi ... to-see-god

Raman

[arasi]

Raman,
tAn peTRa inbam ivvaiyagam peRa
vAneTTa muyanRu piRaruDan pagirgirIr!

vAzhga!

To share with the world what you savored
What tremendous efforts you have put into it!

May you flourish!

[ranjanimalavi]

Since its music season,

Carnatic Youtbe Collection videos is around 1,50,000+ (26,000 chapter videos also)
Hindustani Youtbe Collection videos is around 1,35,000-

https://ramanarunachalam.github.io/Musi ... natic.html
https://ramanarunachalam.github.io/Musi ... stani.html
https://sites.google.com/site/ramanarunachalamhome

Raman