Good Close out with not ready yet, Fred. This is probably the best part of my job... listening to all these rad mixes while we roll out new features.
Really enjoying muxtape's simple and elegant design. As an avid tumblr user myself, it is certainly appreciated.
Over here at Mixwit, we have a bit of different strategy. We've created this awesome way for people to create and share mixtapes in a really personalized way, but we see that as just a start for us. What we're really building is a platform mashups, where users can take media from around the web and use it to create amazing things.
-Mike
RacerRick
· 1 year ago
Muxtape's ease/simplicity is quite beautiful.
Howard
· 1 year ago
Muxtape is a great idea executed with everything you need and nothing more. Love when that happens.
What's better...I went to your muxtape and really liked the Mike Doughty song (had not heard of him before) and just bought the album. While the record companies continue to balk at the free sharing and rights issues of all of these services ... I hope they see this as even more proof as to how this free sharing is the most powerful (and free) marketing they can ever get AND that is it does funnel to their cash account.
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
Mike Doughty is a very talented guy.
He's playing in NYC soon.
I am going to take the whole family and we'll sing along to every song
Muxtape is so good. However, it's obviously getting hammered right now.
(edited for really, really poor grammar)
Joe Lazarus
· 1 year ago
Muxtape is beautiful in it's simplicity, though I agree that it might be even easier to add songs that are already on the web rather than having to upload (a la Mixwit). I tried to combine those two things with a hack I built a few weeks ago...
Unfortunately, I don't have the programming skills to turn that into a real, elegant product like Muxtape, but I think the concept is directionally right. When I want to add songs to my music blog, I just click the "love" button in Audioscrobbler through iTunes and the hack finds an MP3 from the web and submits it to my site for me in the background.
Fred, do you know what the latest legal policy is with regards to linking to MP3's that are hosted on other sites? Would Muxtape be legal if it somehow just linked to all the songs you wanted on your mix without hosting the files on Muxtape.com? Would the Hype Machine be entirely legal if they just linked to tracks on music blogs and let you play them on HypeM.com, but without hosting the MP3s? I assume that's a grey area.
vincentvw
· 1 year ago
I'd also like to know what the legal situation is with this. I'd love to publish playlists on my blog, but I'm afraid to be sued into oblivion. How do you do it, Fred?
vincentvw
· 1 year ago
Nevermind, I saw how Mixwit does it. Searching the web enters the grey area, but does make life for users a lot easier.
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
I take that risk
Alex
· 1 year ago
very cool........ I cracking up at the title of the song!
Gabriel N.
· 1 year ago
Sweet stuff... takes me back to those days with our dual tape deck, radios and vinyl records. We would create all kinds of crazy mixtapes that we would pass around school. Hours and hours were spent...
My kids won't believe me when I have to explain what we had to do to make our mixtapes back in them olden days!! I can already see the "you gotta be kidding" look on their faces.
BTW, good taste in tunes!! Mike Doughty writes some great music... check out his work with Soul Coughing.
And Vampire Weekend... the most talked about and possibly over-hyped band of the year... but you know what, the music is pretty original and catchy.
vincentvw
· 1 year ago
Thanks, I discovered a new band through your mix. Love MGMT!
The Polyphonic Spree - Light and Day/Reach for the Sun Raconteurs - Yellow Sun Rilo Kiley - Hail To Whatever you Found Mike Doughty- Fort Hood Tilly and the Wall - Love Song Belle and Sebastian - Song for Sunshine Matt Costa - Sunshine The Elected - Sun Sun Sun Great Lake Swimmers, I Will never see the sun Super Furry Animals - Hello Sunshine Iron & Wine - Sunset Soon Forgotten The Polyphonic Spree - It's the Sun
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
Sweet
I need to be able to put mixwit on my iPod
This is the perfect spring bike ride mix which I will happily be doing tomorrow
fred
Beth
· 1 year ago
I'll be at the Highline singing along too this Friday. I made a mixwit tape for the friends I'm going with (they're not familiar with him). Here's the link:
The selection of his songs that were available on mixwit was somewhat limited. I haven't checked out muxtape yet-- does it offer more selections?
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
Beth
I listened to your mixwit yesterday. Loved it. But then again, I love mike doughty so a mike mix is always going to be great
fred
Mike
· 1 year ago
What about MyFlashFetish.com ? They have been around for awhile and look very promising. I'm surprised to not see them in this post.
matt
· 1 year ago
Fred -- Compete releases its updated data on social network growth this afternoon -- I'll send you a link; it will have a big change in how imeem looks on this chart.
matt
BayPay
· 1 year ago
re: searching for tracks vs uploading tracks "Mixwit is like projectplaylist in that you search the internet for the tracks you want and add them. I vastly prefer the latter approach. It's faster and more fun."
You appear to be unaway that on imeem you can add any music that any other user has uploaded to your playlist, I think there must be something like 5 million tracks on there by now.
Basicly both mixwit and muxtape compare poorly to imeem or projectplaylist, if these guys can get funded by VC's I've got a social network that they might want to fund.
free mixtape downloads
· 1 year ago
you are right mixtapes have evolved into cds and now digitial format. the best free mixtape download site is http://www.thatcrack.com there are real mixtape djs mixing those mixtapes
i agree most of this is just compilations. i have been to thatcrack.com i frequent them alot they are up to the minute with new free mixtape downloads. mixwit and mixwup are just cheap gadgets that are just that gadgets
Aimee Grace Webb
· 1 month ago
I used to make mix tapes it seemed easier then burning a cd which gets frustrating if the burn wont complete and you waste a cd trying I love last.fm and blip.fm and have an account with most of the other music sharing sites you mentioned that i don't visit that much... I will definitely have to check out muxtape or mixwit
jackson
· 1 year ago
For me, the mixtape was about the mix, the segues, the flow. I don't think you can put together a proper mix without hearing the tunes. It's much easier to compile a bunch of songs these days, certainly quicker, but the quality, again, is cheapened by the method. In the end, it's a compilation, not a mix.
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
Not sure I agree completey jackson
I know every one of the songs I put on those mixes
I selected them in the same way I'd select a song when it was vinyl to tape
But it was easier to do and took me less time so I'll make more mixes
And this way I can share with thousands not dozens
All Comments
Really enjoying muxtape's simple and elegant design. As an avid tumblr user myself, it is certainly appreciated.
Over here at Mixwit, we have a bit of different strategy. We've created this awesome way for people to create and share mixtapes in a really personalized way, but we see that as just a start for us. What we're really building is a platform mashups, where users can take media from around the web and use it to create amazing things.
-Mike
What's better...I went to your muxtape and really liked the Mike Doughty song (had not heard of him before) and just bought the album. While the record companies continue to balk at the free sharing and rights issues of all of these services ... I hope they see this as even more proof as to how this free sharing is the most powerful (and free) marketing they can ever get AND that is it does funnel to their cash account.
He's playing in NYC soon.
I am going to take the whole family and we'll sing along to every song
Fred
(edited for really, really poor grammar)
http://joelaz.com/post/28132796
Unfortunately, I don't have the programming skills to turn that into a real, elegant product like Muxtape, but I think the concept is directionally right. When I want to add songs to my music blog, I just click the "love" button in Audioscrobbler through iTunes and the hack finds an MP3 from the web and submits it to my site for me in the background.
Fred, do you know what the latest legal policy is with regards to linking to MP3's that are hosted on other sites? Would Muxtape be legal if it somehow just linked to all the songs you wanted on your mix without hosting the files on Muxtape.com? Would the Hype Machine be entirely legal if they just linked to tracks on music blogs and let you play them on HypeM.com, but without hosting the MP3s? I assume that's a grey area.
My kids won't believe me when I have to explain what we had to do to make our mixtapes back in them olden days!! I can already see the "you gotta be kidding" look on their faces.
BTW, good taste in tunes!! Mike Doughty writes some great music... check out his work with Soul Coughing.
And Vampire Weekend... the most talked about and possibly over-hyped band of the year... but you know what, the music is pretty original and catchy.
Check out my mix:
http://www.nickdavis.com/Ra-Ra-Apollo-Spring-Mix
Ra Ra Apollo - Spring Mix
Track List:
The Polyphonic Spree - Light and Day/Reach for the Sun
Raconteurs - Yellow Sun
Rilo Kiley - Hail To Whatever you Found
Mike Doughty- Fort Hood
Tilly and the Wall - Love Song
Belle and Sebastian - Song for Sunshine
Matt Costa - Sunshine
The Elected - Sun Sun Sun
Great Lake Swimmers, I Will never see the sun
Super Furry Animals - Hello Sunshine
Iron & Wine - Sunset Soon Forgotten
The Polyphonic Spree - It's the Sun
I need to be able to put mixwit on my iPod
This is the perfect spring bike ride mix which I will happily be doing
tomorrow
fred
http://www.mixwit.com/widgets/2e036e937655a4163...
The selection of his songs that were available on mixwit was somewhat limited. I haven't checked out muxtape yet-- does it offer more selections?
I listened to your mixwit yesterday. Loved it. But then again, I love mike
doughty so a mike mix is always going to be great
fred
matt
"Mixwit is like projectplaylist in that you search the internet for the tracks you want and add them. I vastly prefer the latter approach. It's faster and more fun."
You appear to be unaway that on imeem you can add any music that any other user has uploaded to your playlist, I think there must be something like 5 million tracks on there by now.
Basicly both mixwit and muxtape compare poorly to imeem or projectplaylist, if these guys can get funded by VC's I've got a social network that they might want to fund.
I know every one of the songs I put on those mixes
I selected them in the same way I'd select a song when it was vinyl to tape
But it was easier to do and took me less time so I'll make more mixes
And this way I can share with thousands not dozens
Fred