March 26, 2008
The latest from the Web 2.0 world: Muxtape. With just an email as a signup, make yourself a personalized 12 song mixtape. The nerdy types are excited/impressed/befuddled that Muxtape harnesses the power of Amazon S3 to store and serve the songs you upload. Make yourself a mix-tape now before RIAA finds the site and shuts it down! Or all those Amazon S3 fees catch up to the creators! Or the site's popularity spirals so out of control that it isn't scaleable!
I know that three complete setlists already exist; post yours in the comments once you've compiled it!
AEtherMix 3 - Adventures in Penis Cupping
AEtherMix 4 - He Lived A Man, He Died A Shoe
Work in progress (6/12 so far). They have RSS for each muxtape in case you want to track changes or something.
Thanks for the RSS tip, doncarlo... Consider yourselves google read'rd. This makes it like a twitter-y hype machine. (In fact, one could (and has) twitterfeed their muxtape.)
More Web 2.0ishness:
Skitch is like screencast IM
PicLens gives you Coverflow-like browsing of Flickr, etc.
Catbird.muxtape.com is highly appropriate.
I don't get it. Please explain the joke to me.
For those playing along at home, conventional internet wisdom is (probably rightly) predicting that muxtape's demise will be hastened by the completely awesome MuxFind. Enjoy it while you can since it's "Napster in a browser".
Also, I can now tell you that Yeasayer - 2080 is on at least 70 muxtapes.
Am I doing it wrong? Already it says, "Sorry! I'm afraid there's not going to be any more keyword searches. At least for now - because of the obvious legal issues."
Disappointing! Here is another site that does a similar thing but not quite as well.
The dumbest fucking thing the music industry could do is shut down muxtape. God, this makes me so furious I could kick something. The labels are not just wrong from an ethical standpoint, they're even more so wrong from a business standpoint. It's a big part of the business model they've needed, and these things are *still* being invented by 26 year-olds in their garage and not by the studios. If they want to control the direction their industry goes they should start steering their goddamn ship.
There's no ads, only affiliate links. Muxtape makes a penny **only when** the music labels make a dollar -- they understand that, right?
Piracy isn't killing music -- the big label's intransigence is.
Wow. The music industry's greed and myopia continue to astound.
... and with that, I'm done paying money that might go to the RIAA. Given a choice between stealing 80% of the price from me and %20 from (the artist + any reasonable estimate of overhead), it's not surprising that many choose the latter.
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Well, actually the setlist I posted is my AEtherMix 4...
I will just create another account and post my AEtherMix 3.
posted by zieglerfe at 12:32PM CST on March 27