=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The Wonderful World of "The RMIM AutoMailer" ==================== =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= You can now access via AutoMailer, among other things, song info for 4000+ songs, 1500+ classical and film songs (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu) based on classical ragas, 150 music related articles, 1000+ songs from the ISB, and over 1500 Urdu words from the Urdu-English dictionary. You can also perform searches based on a combination of playback singers. .................................................................. (Last changed - May 28 1997) You read RMIM? Awesome! Then you would inevitably, at some time or another, need/want one or more of the following: - the list of songs in any particular movie - the lyrics of songs from the ITRANS Song Book - the music director, the actors, the singers, the lyricist and the movie for any particular song - the songs sung by any combination of singers - articles about various music personalities (Mohd. Rafi, Kishore K., Naushad, Illayaraja etc.), lists, compilations - songs based on any particular "raag" - get the name of the "raag" a song is based on. - get the meaning of any Urdu word - add the lyrics of your favourite song to the ITRANS Song Book - the rmim FAQ - the rmim miniFAQ or - the automailer FAQ itself. Then the "RMIM AutoMailer" (tm) is for you. You can get any or all of the above by just sending an email with the proper subject to an address. Read on and have fun. This is the account where one can send mail to receive information automatically. (Note: The archives examine only the Subject line for processing your request automatically. No personal replies are made.) Account: subraman@cs.umn.edu Valid subjects are: Subject: rmim faq Subject: rmim faq n Subject: rmim minifaq Subject: song:: <1-3 words from the start of the song> Subject: index:: Subject: lyrics:: <1-3 words from the start of the song> Subject: lyr_index:: Subject: rmim article list Subject: rmim article n Subject: movie:: Subject: raag:: Subject: song_raag:: Subject: urdu:: Subject: rmim chords Subject: rmim notes Subject: rmim automailer Subject: itrans song Subject: singer:: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The details of what these subjects mean are given below: 1) To auto-magically obtain a copy of the full version of the rec.music.indian.misc's FAQ, send mail, To: subraman@cs.umn.edu with, Subject: rmim faq (Case - capitals or small - is not important in the subject.) ........................................................................ 2) There is also a mini version of this FAQ that is posted twice monthly on RMIM. It contains the questions the answers to which are found in the full FAQ. This miniFAQ has the information on the latest updates to the FAQ, so you might want to check it out from time to time. You can obtain a copy of the RMIM miniFAQ by sending mail To: subraman@cs.umn.edu with, Subject: rmim minifaq (Case - capitals or small - is not important in the subject.) ........................................................................ 3) If you need to obtain the answer to just one of questions in the FAQ, let's say question number n, then send a mail, To: subraman@cs.umn.edu with, Subject: rmim faq n To obtain the appendix, use a or A instead of the number. For example, to know what P-stats are you would send a mail to subraman@cs.umn.edu with Subject: rmim faq 4. If you make a mistake, the return mail should tell you what the error was and you can try again. Also, there is no provision to obtain answers to sub-parts of a question. For example, even if you give the subject as "rmim faq 14.1", you will still receive the full answer to part 14. ........................................................................ 4) To obtain the P-stats (singer, movie, lyricist, MD, actors) of any song, send mail To: subraman@cs.umn.edu with, Subject: song:: For example, to get song info about all songs starting with "piya", you can send a mail with the subject as "song:: piya"; to obtain the P-stats for, let's say, just the song "piya piya piya mera jiya pukare", the subject would be "song:: piya piya piya". This can be used in conjunction with #5 below if one is not sure of the words of the song. Moreover, if this song is present in the ITRANS Song Book (ISB), then the ISB song number will be also be displayed. To find out how to access the songs in the ISB, check out the item #6 below. Also read the RMIM FAQ or the ISB FAQ for more info on the ISB. ........................................................................ 5) To obtain a list of songs for which the P-stats are available, send mail To: subraman@cs.umn.edu with, Subject: index:: where the ) can be any character(s) from the English alphabet. For example, if the subject of the mail is "index:: ab", the reply will list songs like "ab chaahe ma roothe ya baaba, ab kya misaal dun, ABC ABC," etc. ........................................................................ 6) To auto-magically receive the lyrics of any song in the ITRANS Song Book, send mail To: subraman@cs.umn.edu with, Subject: lyrics:: If the song is available in the ITRANS Song Book , you will receive the lyrics of the song, in ITRANSed ASCII format, automatically via email from the automailer. Again, if you are not sure of the words of the song, then option #7 below will help you in doing that. ........................................................................ 7) To obtain a list of songs available in the ITRANS Song Book, send mail To: subraman@cs.umn.edu with, Subject: lyr_index:: where the can be any characters from the English alphabet. For example if the subject of your e-mail was "lyr_index:: a", you will receive a list of all songs in the ITRANS Song Book whose titles start with the letter a or A. ........................................................................ 8) To obtain some of the biographical and other interesting articles previously posted in rec.music.indian.misc, send mail, To: subraman@cs.umn.edu with, Subject: rmim article list That should return with a list of all articles that we have in our database as well as a little description of each. Each article will have a pre-assigned number. To get a particular article in the list, send a mail To: subraman@cs.umn.edu with, Subject: rmim article n where n is the number of the article that you want. It should return immediately with the article that you desired. ........................................................................ 9) To obtain a list of the songs in any movie, send a mail, To: subraman@cs.umn.edu with, Subject: movie:: That will return with all the songs in all movies that match the pattern provided. For example, sending a mail with 'Subject: movie:: hum' will return with the all songs and their P-stats which are in our database from the movies Hum Dono, Humjoli, Mere Humdum mere dost, Humsaaya, JHumroo, Hum kisi se kam nahin, Dil bhee tera Hum bhee tere and MadHumati. This can be extremely useful in many situations. However, please do not use any numbers as part of the movie name (like in kabhi-2; just kabhi will do as nicely). ........................................................................ 10) To obtain a list of (Hindi, Tamil or St. Thyagaraja) songs based on a raag, send mail To: subraman@cs.umn.edu with, Subject: raag:: For example, a mail with Subject: raag:: malhar will return with the songs in our database that we believe are in raag malhar. Currently, both Tamil and Hindi songs might be returned. ........................................................................ 11) To obtain the name of the raag some song is based on, send a mail To: subraman@cs.umn.edu with, Subject: song_raag:: For example, a mail with Subject: "song_raag:: ja re badara" will return with "yaman." ........................................................................ 12) To obtain the meaning of any Urdu word (assuming it is in our database) in English or the Urdu equivalent of an English word, send a mail To: subraman@cs.umn.edu with, Subject: urdu:: You should obtain the required equivalent via return mail. For example. sending a mail with "Subject: urdu:: lovely" provides the Urdu words "dilbar" and "maHboob" (acts almost like a thesaurus). ........................................................................ 13) To obtain the chords for the few songs that we have, send mail To: subraman@cs.umn.edu with, Subject: rmim chords You should get the complete file in return. ........................................................................ 14) To obtain the notes for the few songs that we have, send mail To: subraman@cs.umn.edu with, Subject: rmim notes You should get the complete file in return. ........................................................................ 15) To obtain the latest version of this FAQ, send mail To: subraman@cs.umn.edu with, Subject: rmim automailer ........................................................................ 16) To add the lyrics of any particular song to the ITRANS Song Book, send mail To: subraman@cs.umn.edu with, Subject: itrans song This will make sure that the song eventually finds its way into the ISB. Please provide as many details about the song as possible. The complete P-stats for it would be very welcome. The contributor will also be credited for the song in the ISB. ........................................................................ 17) To obtain the songs that any combination of singers has sung, send mail To: subraman@cs.umn.edu with, Subject: singer:: This part of the mailer is courtesy Nuts (nuts@virginia.edu). Please direct all comments or queries to him. You may inquire for songs by singers by specifying the singer's name as a full word that is part of the singer's name or a cryptic code. For example, singer:: kishore singer:: kishore-kumar singer:: kkg are valid queries for solos sung by Kishore Kumar. If you do not remember the cryptic code, no problem. Just send a mail with just singer:: in the subject header. That will return you all the singers for whom the data exists, as well as other useful information. Combinations can be found by separating the singers with '+' marks. For example, Kishore-Asha duets can be found by specifying singer:: kishore-kumar+asha Combinations with more than two singers are also possible. Order of the singers in the query is unimportant. Multiple queries may be made by separating them with spaces, as in: singer:: bhupinder shamshad+talat-mehmood This should return all Bhupinder solos followed by duets featuring Shamshad Begum and Talat Mehmood. Queries may also contain wildcards. Wildcards are denoted by the '_' character. An example query with wildcards is singer:: rafi+_ to give all duets featuring Mohammed Rafi. The order in which the singers and wildcards appear is unimportant. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Automailer FAQ is twice monthly on RMIM. -- Prince (pkohli@cc.gatech.edu) Satish (subraman@cs.umn.edu)