Muxtape

[Happy Face 29]

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/03/muxtape-keeps-t.html

 

The mixtape is gone for most intents and purposes, but the idea of assembling a few tunes for one's friends is very much a thing of the present. Muxtape is the latest service we've seen that lets users assemble mixtape-like playlists online, and it might be our favorite.

 

It doesn't get any easier than this. Register with your email address (no confirmation required), upload up to twelve MP3s, and that's it. An online mixtape containing your songs will appear at the URL "username.muxtape.com" (their example). The only setting to deal with, at this point anyway, is the color of the text, which you specify via hexadecimal code.

 

Apparently, you're not supposed to upload "multiple songs from the same album or artist or songs [you] do not have permission to let Muxtape use," but in our test (a smattering of lesser-heard My Bloody Valentine tracks), copyrighted material was not filtered out by audio fingerprint as it is with some other services.

 

"Accounts not meeting these restrictions are subject to termination without notice," but if you want to throw together a few songs in the spirit of the mixtapes of yesteryear, Muxtape is an excellent way to do so, from what we've seen so far -- aside from the fact that songs appear in the wrong order (the last song you upload ends up at the top of the list).

 

Here's a Girltalk Muxtape...

 

http://girltalk.muxtape.com/

 

[Happy Face 29]

http://ofmontreal.muxtape.com/

[manc-mag 1]

Wonder what it's called in New Zealand, as that's how a Kiwi would pronounce 'mixtape' anyway.