Youtube sucks!!
Posted by Joe on February 10, 2010
While I was a kid, I liked this song “Ek baar Ek baar pyar se tu bol” by Saif Ali Khan. I even forgot the movie in which it was shot. But I and my sis liked that song so much that we wanted to have a audio cassette of that song.
Instead of buying that movie audio cassette, we decided to record the song in a audio cassette, and instead of having only that song in an audio cassette, we planned to record more songs in the same cassette.
We did some analysis with other cassettes we were having at that time, and realized that we can record something like 14 songs in a single cassette.
So with this list in my hand, I and my dad went from one music shop to another to get the songs recorded. Unfortunately our home town was Madurai, and not many people listen to hindi songs over there. More importantly, Madurai is considered to be the center of Tamil language, and as you might be knowing, Tamil Nadu is tweaked a bit away from Hindi.
Finally, after searching in some 5-6 music shops, we ended on a music store which agreed to record the songs for us. He asked for two days to get the songs recorded, and we readily agreed for the same.
After waiting anxiously for 48 hours, we got the tape in our hand, and I rushed back home to hear the music flowing out of it.
Side A had 7 songs as we expected, but our “Ek baar Ek baar pyar se tu bol” was not among them. Side B had the songs from the movie Barsaat, which was fine for us. But unfortunately, the last song from Barsaat ran for a whole 10 minutes instead of the expected 5 minutes and “Ek baar Ek baar pyar se tu bol” was not in Side B too.
We don’t have “Ek baar Ek baar pyar se tu bol” in the audio cassette
I tried consoling myself that only the initial verses are good, but my sister poured oil in the fire by singing the chorus too.
Now thanks to youtube, I can find the song online, and I can play it any number of times I want. Even though we have coolgoose and raaga.com to listen to the songs online, personally I prefer youtube. Youtube has helped me keep in touch with Ramstein or Ozzy. It has definitely introduced the comical skits of Shane Dawson, rumblings of SxePhil, or the sheer craziness of FLuffeeTalks.
But this is just the users in youtube. Youtube as a whole still sucks.
I seriously don’t understand why in my home page, I should be shown some crapy hindi sitcom as featured videos or the videos being watched. I came to know about RayWilliamJohnson or Nigahiga only through the most viewed column in youtube front page. Nowadays I am getting some crappy hindi movie trailer or again a crapy hindi sitcom.
The worst part is, I can in no way know what is the most happeneing thing in the rest of the world, as in youtube, I get almost all the information pertaining to India. The most viewed, or the most popular almost always points to hindi serials.
The worser part is, I dont have any option by which I can change the regional setting.
Youtube, as part of google is the master, and we have to eat what we are given. Crappy equation for sure.
Youtube has tried its level best to make the youtube experience as regional as possible. But by trying for the same, youtube has lost on its core aim – To make the whole world a single village.
PS: I found out where to change the location settings. It is in the bottom of the page than in the top where it used to be. Still I hate youtube for that 
