Virtually Here

Launched a mere four months ago (which sometimes in internet-time can be considered about four years..) muxtape.com sparked a lot of interest and hype around the web.

To quote muxtape:

“Muxtape is a living music platform in its early stages. Our goal is to redefine the mixtape on the internet as a model for music discovery and social interaction, and to do so in the most elegant way technology allows. We believe that music is better when it’s presented to you by a person with care.”

That quote sums up Muxtape rather well and as a music-loving websurfer (Pandora, last.fm, Muxtape (even iTunes..) I quickly found myself attracted to the underlying concept of Muxtape and have spent MANY hours on it mixing and sharing music with people as well as finding others ‘mix tapes’.

So, how does it work?

The very basic functions of Muxtape allows you to create an account that gives you your own permanent URL link. Once you have an account you can start uploading music (maximum twelve songs/mix) from your computer to create your own ‘mixed tape’.  Once uploaded you re-arrange the songs by simply dragging and dropping them in the order you want them played. Sharing your mix is as easy as having someone go to your URL. Done.

As an example, here is my own latest mix-tape: [Click to play]

You can also browse the front page for mixtapes created by others or, if you are feeling especially adventurous, you can use the random feature and see what you end up with. People can also tag you as a ‘favorite’ and you can with a click see who else these people like in hopes of finding other, similar music to listen to.

For those of you already hooked on last.fm you’ll be pleased to learn that you can port the listening history from Muxtape to last.fm as well

No site is perfect and Muxtape is the first to comment on that they are still in their early stages of development. Some features I would love to see added are for instance the ability to upload multiple files, progress bar(s) for file uploads, statistics on how many (and who) have listened to your music, multiple mix-tapes per account, etc, etc.

But if you’re looking for new ways to find and/or share music on-line give Muxtape.com a try - and send me your link so I can get some new stuff to listen to

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