Hungama and TuneWiki announce mobile music partnership!

Hungama, the largest aggregator, developer and distributor of Bollywood and South Asian entertainment content in the world, presents TuneWiki, an application that provides real-time, subtitled lyrics for users' stored library of music and music videos. TuneWiki connects music lovers with lyrics, subtitled and translated through a wiki which features more than 600,000 contributors. TuneWiki makes music social with community wiki-features for lyrics and translation updates, geography based Top 50 music charts and the ability blip updates to friends.

Users can sing along with streaming lyrics and they can also access and download music from the Hungama storefront to enjoy a seamless music experience. This initiative will enable Indian music lovers to get the latest and the best in music complete with subtitled lyrics and social features.

"We're thrilled to be partnering with India's leader in digitial entertainment content," said Larry Goldberg, CEO and president of TuneWiki. "The TuneWiki/Hungama alliance allows us to bring our unique and exciting music player experience to music lovers throughout India."

Commenting on this initiative, Siddhartha Roy, COO, Hungama Digital Media said, "So far music has been driven by traditional media players in India. TuneWiki offers an innovative music player that simplifies the user experience and provides access to an enormous lyrics database. The use of data-intensive features, such as subtitled lyrics and lyric translation, requires a high-quality application that can seamlessly support these features, and TuneWiki is the partner that makes it possible to offer our users an even better mobile music experience."

Users can access Tunewiki application via a subscription model at Rs. 5/day, Rs. 10/week, Rs. 30 /month. This application is compatible with all Java enabled handsets that include major mass market and premium handset models making it a largely usable proposition.