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Muxtape Returns With a New Focus on Legal Music
We have often bemoaned the demise of Muxtape, one of our favorite online mixtape services. Sadly, Muxtape had to close shop because of the inevitable RIAA takedown notices. Now, however, Muxtape is getting ready for a comeback, but alas, it won't be the same service we had come to love last year. Instead, Muxtape will only focus on hosting tapes for bands.
Justin Ouellette, Muxtape's CEO and Founder just announced a preview version of the new Muxtape, which he has seeded with songs from twelve bands, including indie favorites like of Montral.
Music Search and Mixtapes Come to SearchMe
Visual search engine SearchMe just added music search to its repertoire of search options. That, by itself, wouldn't be very interesting, but thanks to integrating this new search feature with Imeem's ability to play back an unlimited number of full songs and SearchMe's 'Stacks' functionality, you can now use SearchMe to easily create custom mixtapes.
SearchMe, which combines a search engine with a highly visual, CoverFlow-like interface, has seen rapid growth over the last few months and this new feature will surely help the company to attract even more users.
Muxtape Is Dead - Favtape Emerges as a Great Alternative
While Muxtape's Justin Ouellette just posted a dire story about the shutdown of the popular mixtape service and his dealings with the music industry, Favtape has updated its service dramatically.
Muxtape will effectively remain closed for the general public and will only return as a music hosting service for bands. Favtape, on the other hand, now looks like Muxtape on steroids, with embeddable playlists, album art, integrated YouTube search, a shuffle mode, and the ability to create tapes based on your last.fm and Pandora bookmarks.
Mixtube: Make Mixtapes from YouTube Tunes
YouTube is a great source of live music performances and other audio treasures. Music companies get upset that their tunes are used without permission in lip sync and other types of videos on the site. Where they see conflict, others see opportunity.
We've seen a number of new services lately that focus on the audio in YouTube videos, but the most enjoyable one so far is Mixtube - a mixtape maker for YouTube audio. It's based on the metaphor and interface of the now "sleeping" Muxtape.
Tumbltape Mashes Up Muxtape and Tumblr
The demise of Muxtape, the popular mixtape service, clearly left a void on the Internet that a number of new companies are now trying to fill. Most clones, from 8tracks to the self-hosted OpenTape, have followed the Muxtape model very closely. Tumbltape, which launched today, takes a slightly different route by using the Tumblr for storing and posting the actual MP3 files. While Tumbltape has some limitations, it is a great way for Tumblr users to share their audio files.
Opentape: Host Your Own Muxtape Clone
We were big fans of Muxtape here at ReadWriteWeb, but when the the virtual mixtape service shut its doors last week because of legal issues with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), it definitely left us wanting for more. Last night, we heard about OpenTape, a self-hosted open source version of Muxtape. Being the Muxtape fans we are, we just had to install it for ourselves and came away quite impressed with how well it worked.
Three Hot Mixtape Services That Are Remaking the Art Form
Mixtapes just 'aint what they used to be. One of the most democratic forms of art collecting is being made even easier by a handful of fun new websites.
Is it legal? Will it last? We don't know and we don't know if we care. These services are such a joy to use that they reinvigorate our appreciation for what the social web can do.
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