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Opentape: Open source mixtapes? That's so indie.

If you're a fan of the breakout mixtape-sharing service Muxtape, you've probably noticed that they've been down for a while, dealing with a complaint from the RIAA. Who knows how long that could take, or whether they're even going to be back up at all? What's a mixtape lover to do? Well, some ingenious Muxtape fans have cooked up an open source solution for hosting your own mixes, using an admittedly Muxtape-inspired interface.

It's called OpenTape, and you can host it easily on your own server, if you're running Apache and PHP5 (or some other servers the site doesn't specify, so give it a try for yourself if you're not sure.) There's a demo OpenTape up, and it does work almost exactly like Muxtape, although most of the features have been rewritten. The only code that's directly left over from Muxtape is the song reordering tool, and OpenTape is looking for someone to rewrite that, too. Long story short, this is a slick way to share music on your own site. Give it a look.

Mixwit - Make your mix tapes online

Remember when you put together mix tapes on cassettes and lovingly wrote the song titles in microscopic script on the tape label, maybe even including artistic doodles? Remember the recorded intro you did for the recipient? Remember the songs you selected? Each one chosen for its particular meaning - a special code for you and the receiver's relationship. Yeah, we don't remember that sappy stuff either.

Well *cough,* not that anyone would do that, but Mixwit is a site where you could if you wanted to theoretically speaking, do something kind of, sort of, like that, if you were into that type of thing, which you're definitely probably not.

Making a mix tape with Mixwit is super easy. You can upload your own artwork for the tape skin, search for songs online and drag and drop them on the playlist you're creating, share by publishing it on Mixwit or even embedding on your blog or website. It's absolutely free too. We think you'll love it.

Mixaloo reinvents mix tapes

Ever make a mix tape?In the heady days of the early nineties, when some of us were still in high school (not saying who), there was no finer way of communicating adoration to a crush than to dub them a mix tape. A little Stone Temple Pilots and a little Journey--whatever sent the message that was on your mind. The mix tape went out of style as digital music came in, and there hasn't been quite anything to replicate that warm, analog feeling of illegally communicating your infatuation for somebody at school. Shareng with your special someone an iPod playlist just doesn't have the same effect, especially with DRM.

Until now. Mixaloo is a service that blends social networking and music, letting you build your own play lists and share them through widgets that you can post on your MySpace or Facebook page. Even better, this method of making mix tapes is completely legal and won't even cost you 45 cents for a blank. Plus, if you can create a mix that somehow appeals to the masses, rather than just your sweetheart, you can actually score some bank in the process.

Since they've chosen Clearspring as their platform for widget-building, we'll probably see these playlists all over the place before too long. Mashable has more deets about Mixaloo's in-progress beta.

Remove the soul from your mix tapes with Random MixTape Maker

random mix tape makerIn my day we didn't have the fancy iTunes apps with the shuffle buttons. We had to dig into meatspace music containers and actually think about what song comes next... Ah, the lost art of the "mix tape," made for too many lost sweethearts to mention here. So if you're just too lazy to make your own mix, or thinking about hitting that shuffle button (in whatever player you're using) isn't doing it for you, maybe give Random MixTape Maker a try. In fact, this is a useful tool with some handy features. You can set a time limit, which is useful for creating those old skool CD's (you know, the Red Book ones), or set a file size limit for MP3 CD's. Even better, you can blacklist directories or songs. All this appears to work only on MP3 collections, and as far as I can tell won't do a lot if you collection is like mine, a jumble of AAC, Apple Lossless, WMA, MP3, Ogg, AIFF, and WAV files...

[Thanks mouser for the tip]

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