One has to assume that 'Search' is such an obvious and easy-to-implement feature for Muxtape that Justin must have *intentionally* left it out of the feature set. Sure, Search is a great tool for us users, but isn't this just going to attract more industry heat on Muxtape?
markslater
· 1 year ago
semantic search no?
Randy
· 1 year ago
Of course, that adjacent discovery, and seeding it with my current (or apropos your latest 'mats kick, my college playlist) makes the web a music discovery "wow" akin to what it was for information discovery "wow" a decade ago.
plus, you can build your own playlist right from our platform
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
Huh?
wise startup blog
· 1 year ago
you can search for playlists with songs with grooveshark as well -- you type in the song/artist you're looking for, then click on playlists to pull up all playlists with that artist/song
Nick
· 1 year ago
Andrew -
I just checked out the site. It's really impressive. I know I'll be using it a lot from now on. How do you plan to deal w/ the whole legality/copyright issue?
wise startup blog
· 1 year ago
Nick, thanks for the kind words -- very much appreciated.
We're trying to do things the right way in talking to content owners as well as allowing them to sign up and distribute their content.
I still think imeem is the best playlist service, you can upload, share, and contribute ad-rev to the artist pocket. Muxtape does not do this.
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
Well I talked quite a bit about imeem in my original post on muxtape and mixwit
I am finding services that do less are better for me these days
Fred
Ethan Bauley
· 1 year ago
"I am finding services that do less are better for me these days"
Amen
P.S. it seems like there are more comments since you installed disqus, any evidence to back that hypothesis up?
Matt
· 1 year ago
I actually like the idea of only being able to see and access Muxtapes that have a particular artist / song in it. It's a different model of discovery than Hype Machine and Last.fm and that's part of the appeal.
I agree with your last line about search engine result pages as a media experience. I should be able to search for an artist and find all of the different context that people have shared their songs. It would be like the first layer before saying, "I want to hear only Beatles, I want to hear mixed tapes with Beatles, I want to watch Beatles videos, I was to hear what people who listen to the Beatles also listen to..., etc.
It's also exciting to think about the other contextual information (locations, activities, moods, time of year, etc.) that could be matched to music to open the discovery process even more.
jonsteinberg
· 1 year ago
Fred I think muxtape is awesome but how are they dealing with the song copyright issues a la napster?
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
I don't think they are
Neither is hype machine
Maybe the labels are realizing that muxtape and hypem are the new radio - ie promotion
Fred
simondodson
· 1 year ago
okay now that is serioulsy cool
Gabriel N.
· 1 year ago
Another music search engine that I recently found that you might want to give a whirl is http://www.lazytune.com . It's a bit hit or miss. Ran a few queries and found that some bands were represented well, while others were non-existent.
I agree that the simpler and easier the tool the better. I just want to be able to discover and listen to music without having to jump through too many hoops.
I'm not sure if search alone will make Mixwit apart of your daily web listening experience, but I think we've got some stuff in the works that will.
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
Cool
I'll go check it out
Nathan Bowers
· 1 year ago
Good point about the friction in an app being a quality filter. Another thing Muxtape does right is limiting you to 12 songs and 12 friends. Those limitations make you post songs 1) that you love, 2) that you think other people will love, and 3) that you think other people don't know about yet.
(OT: it's *really* cumbersome to comment when Disqus forgets me)
vruz
· 1 year ago
on muxtape: muxtape forces you to go to their website, that's so 1.0. it doesn't come with any embedding features. I want to share with my friends on my blog. (my playlists, or playlists I love, made by somebody else) I thought I could embed it using some IFRAME code in Tumblr, but the dreaded javascript in Muxtape doesn't work well when embedding the flash ui.
on search: eventually, Google will have to open up the search engine so that third parties can plug-in context/content awareness
largehearted boy
· 1 year ago
elbo.ws is the other big music blog aggregator, and I find it a bit more useful than Hype Machine in searching for blog posts about a specific band:
Fred, while it's designed for PR and marketing people to track brands and reputations across social media you might want to try Techrighy's SM2, our social media monitoring and analysis tool. There is a free version. It's not exactly search in that it takes a little while to bring back results (it's real time discovery as opposed to indexing) but you can drill pretty deep on a subject.
CyndyA
· 1 year ago
And... it's already dead, claiming potential legal issues for linking to whatever. A C&D or just random fear?
rich
· 1 year ago
yes, Muxfind seems to have been taken down - a shame - I really enjoyed it for the couple days it existed
Dhrumil
· 1 year ago
Yes, it looks like the took down the best feature, searching for music by name.
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If it exists leave a link please?
Fred
http://listen.grooveshark.com/index.php?searchQuery=the%20books
click on playlists, bam, much easier!
plus, you can build your own playlist right from our platform
I just checked out the site. It's really impressive. I know I'll be using it a lot from now on. How do you plan to deal w/ the whole legality/copyright issue?
We're trying to do things the right way in talking to content owners as well as allowing them to sign up and distribute their content.
Also check out http://www.tinysong.com/i2 our new fun app :)
I am finding services that do less are better for me these days
Fred
Amen
P.S. it seems like there are more comments since you installed disqus, any evidence to back that hypothesis up?
I agree with your last line about search engine result pages as a media experience. I should be able to search for an artist and find all of the different context that people have shared their songs. It would be like the first layer before saying, "I want to hear only Beatles, I want to hear mixed tapes with Beatles, I want to watch Beatles videos, I was to hear what people who listen to the Beatles also listen to..., etc.
It's also exciting to think about the other contextual information (locations, activities, moods, time of year, etc.) that could be matched to music to open the discovery process even more.
Neither is hype machine
Maybe the labels are realizing that muxtape and hypem are the new radio - ie promotion
Fred
I agree that the simpler and easier the tool the better. I just want to be able to discover and listen to music without having to jump through too many hoops.
I'm not sure if search alone will make Mixwit apart of your daily web listening experience, but I think we've got some stuff in the works that will.
I'll go check it out
(OT: it's *really* cumbersome to comment when Disqus forgets me)
I want to share with my friends on my blog. (my playlists, or playlists I love, made by somebody else)
I thought I could embed it using some IFRAME code in Tumblr, but the dreaded javascript in Muxtape
doesn't work well when embedding the flash ui.
on search: eventually, Google will have to open up the search engine so that third parties can plug-in context/content awareness
http://elbo.ws.com