A VC - Latest Comments in muxfind

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Adam — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:01:44 -0000

I like muxfind, but www.muxtapestumbler.com has more options...

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andrewwise — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:53:45 -0000

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.

Also check out http://www.tinysong.com/i2 our new fun app :)

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Nick — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:43:18 -0000

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?

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Dhrumil — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:02:40 -0000

Yes, it looks like the took down the best feature, searching for music by name.

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rich — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:25:55 -0000

yes, Muxfind seems to have been taken down - a shame - I really enjoyed it for the couple days it existed

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CyndyA — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:20:51 -0000

And... it's already dead, claiming potential legal issues for linking to whatever. A C&D or just random fear?

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MartinEdic — Mon, 26 May 2008 14:57:03 -0000

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.

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largeheartedboy — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:31:30 -0000

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:

http://elbo.ws.com

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vruz — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:21:06 -0000

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

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fredwilson — Mon, 26 May 2008 09:16:09 -0000

Cool

I'll go check it out

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NathanBowers — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:22:35 -0000

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)

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mchristoff — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:48:39 -0000

Fred, we've had our own search for about a month: http://www.mixwit.com/search/artist/the%20books

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.

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fredwilson — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:46:05 -0000

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

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gcn — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:18:46 -0000

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.

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simondodson — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:27:10 -0000

okay now that is serioulsy cool

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jonsteinberg — Sun, 25 May 2008 18:19:59 -0000

Fred I think muxtape is awesome but how are they dealing with the song copyright issues a la napster?

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EthanBauley — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:49:07 -0000

"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?

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Matt — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:56:45 -0000

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.

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andrewwise — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:54:56 -0000

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

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fredwilson — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:52:03 -0000

Huh?

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fredwilson — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:49:03 -0000

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

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fakedjs — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:27:39 -0000

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.

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andrewwise — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:22:50 -0000

muxfind? pfft

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

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fredwilson — Sun, 25 May 2008 13:55:04 -0000

Where's the 'mats muxtape?

If it exists leave a link please?

Fred

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Randy — Sun, 25 May 2008 13:52:13 -0000

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.