The rebirth of the mixtape
MusicThanks to Scott — the Scott who got my blog back up and running last week and brought us sites instantrimshot.com and thepennyjam.com — I’ve been acquainted with what I believe will be the next-big-thing for digital music: Muxtape.com.
Think del.icio.us meets your iTunes library. Muxtape is a site where you can make your own online mixtape that’s accessible to anyone via a web browser or iPhone. It allows you to upload your music (up to 10MB worth, or 15 songs total at a time) to be streamed on your personalized muxtape page. For example, check out mikevitellaro.muxtape.com to see my personal mixtape. Uploads are quick and streaming is instant. So awesome.
Think about the possibilities — portable playlists that require no tangible media. That has both convenience and eco-friendly implications. Awesome on both fronts. Say your iPod Touch or iPhone is out of space, but you wanted to bring some more music along with you. Add the music to your muxtape profile to be streamed instead. This is just the half of it.
I’m thoroughly impressed and look forward to seeing where this goes.
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 at 3:24 pm and is filed under Music. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
nice music, seriously, just because I’m about to school you about the ‘innovation’ behind muxtape doesn’t mean I don’t respect your tune selection.
I’m sure you’re impressed by muxtape, but you should be aware that it’s a latecomer to the field, we already have imeem, projectplaylist, finetune, sonific, boomshuffle, mixwit and now muxtape.
You really need to take a look at imeem.com, it launched in 2004, has more than 20million users and is now basicly youtube for music. Upload anything you want, build playlists with anything on the site, and let imeem handle the royalty payments by displaying banner ads and throwing 50% of the revenue to the record labels.
sure, muxtape has no ads, but its’ going to have to pay for bandwidth, salaries and licensing eventually.
a year ago the next big thing was the online mixtape, now muxtape is copying last years big story.
Alright, the record has been set straight. Muxtape is not the first of its kind, though still very cool. I wasn’t familiar with any of those other sites until now. Thanks for the comment.
Weird. I stumbled across imeem.com the other day…but I didn’t realize what it could do. It does seem to be a good resource for music though. It’s funny that you get called out about it right after that. I should have been watching your back, buddy.
Muxtape may not be the first but in my opinion it is certainly the best. Very smart how the developer (it’s a one man op) is using mp3 metadata to drive users to Amazon, it’s unobtrusive and adds value to the service. Also the fact that the player is run with javascript as opposed to flash is significant as it has better mobile support (im talking iphone here.) I’ve never used imeem but my cursory impression is that it is a much more full-featured social site. Muxtape wins simply by stripping everything away except the music.