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March 30, 2008

Muxtape

Muxtape: mixtapes for the Internet generation. What a great idea! Here is my tape: http://jordanh.muxtape.com/

Check out these usage terms:

Muxtape is a service for creating mixtapes. Users may not upload multiple songs from the same album or artist, or songs they do not have permission to let Muxtape use. Individual users may not create multiple muxtapes. Accounts not meeting these restrictions are subject to termination without notice. Muxtape will never reveal your email address to a third party. Muxtape is alive.

The site is by talented web designer and photoblogger Justin Ouellette of http://chromogenic.net/. Justin's photoblogs was one of the first photoblogs I started monitoring regularly. He was definitely an inspiration in getting this site up and running.

I could really see this concept taking off. Sure, there are sites like such as last.fm which allow for the creation of personalized playlists or streaming radio stations or features such as iTunes iMixes but muxtape really neatly encapsulates the bare essence of sharing a pile of music in a format that might actually fit the soul of High Fidelity.

Some enhancements I could see to muxtape:

• The ability to comment on somebody's muxtape
• A feature which would allow you to see related muxtapes.
• An archive feature which allows you to "tag" a previous muxtape so previous track lists are not lost when changes are made; perhaps a tagged entity is the only thing that could be commented upon.
• The ability to download the muxtape in another standard playlist format (this could probably already be done by a third-party from the RSS with an appropriate XSLT!)

Posted by jordanh at March 30, 2008 5:47 PM

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