Simple mixtape sharing with Muxtape

by Jay Hathaway Mar 26th 2008

New York City hipsters have struck again, bringing quick and easy mixtape sharing to the 'net at Muxtape.com. The site was built by Justin Ouellette, and early mixes have been uploaded by Jakob Lodwick (of Vimeo) and Patrick Moberg (of nygirlofmydreams.com fame). Muxtape is easy as pie: upload songs in mp3 format, drag and drop to organize, send the link to your friends.

Muxtapes hold up to 12 songs in a nice minimal layout (LARGE TYPE! CLICK TO PLAY! CLICK AGAIN TO STOP!). You can't download songs directly from other people's Muxtapes, which keeps the focus on finding good new artists to support. Justin says RSS feeds and m4a support are already in the works, so Muxtape should just keep getting easier.

Tags: audio, music, muxtape, sharing

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

mouser said 11:47AM on 3-26-2008

If you are looking for a local windows program that does this kind of thing but is a bit more advanced, one of the coders on our site wrote a program called "Mixtape Maker":
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Seedling/MixTape/index.html

Maybe someone will find it useful.
-mouser

Todd said 12:15PM on 3-26-2008

"...You can't download songs directly from other people's Muxtapes..."

With this you can:

http://www.mp3mymp3.com/mp3_my_mp3_recorder.html

D'oh!

chris joseph said 6:24PM on 3-26-2008

But that re-encodes whatever it is you're recording. It's not a direct rip/download.

que said 9:54PM on 3-26-2008

is hosting music files legal as long as they're not available for direct download? how do they get away with this?

iain bailey said 4:16PM on 3-29-2008

i like that site, but did anyone get this working with firefox on linux? i'm not sure whether I have the right plugin installed.

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