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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Music Make Me a Muxtape

Posted by Ezra Caraeff on Wed, Mar 26 at 9:39 AM

Finally! Technology and my hardwired desire to make mixes on a MAXELL UR-120 cassette tape have finally come together—let me introduce you to Muxtape.

This “simple way to create and share mixtapes” allows you to upload a custom mix to a “tape” (or at least a .JPG graphic of a tape), and then send the mix to your friends, co-workers, and most importantly, your creepy online crushes. The layout is simple and uncluttered, while the music stream is quite quick, with little buffer time

Is it legal? Um, not sure. Probably not. But who cares about all that? It’s an adorable online mixtape, so get taping!!

My apologies to the lispy Promise Ring for borrowing their song title.

End Hits: Still listening to our “Amber will you go to Winter Formal ‘95?” mix.

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Comments

It's not legal? Hells, no! That's not the point of the mixtape!

Ahh, the C120 ... now those were the days! I'll never forget my first Walkman ... now, that was sweet. Very DIY. Hell of a lot of fun.

Posted by Samuel John Klein | March 26, 2008 12:29 PM

I thought it might be worthwhile to mention that it was made by Justin Ouellette, a native Portlander and close friend, who also has an awesome photoblog at http://www.chromogenic.net.

Posted by eliza sohn | March 26, 2008 2:57 PM

I thought it might also be worthwhile to mention that it was created by Justin Ouellette, a native Portlander and close friend who also has a great photoblog at http://www.chromogenic.net .

Posted by eliza sohn | March 26, 2008 3:18 PM

Not sure what would be illegal about it. You upload songs, the site plays them. I didn't see a way to save the songs/mixtape.

Posted by Hula | March 26, 2008 4:03 PM

Hula
Uploading music that you do not own the copyright to is illegal. Not to take anything away from the site, which is amazing and one of the coolest things I have seen online in a long time. It's such a simple idea, I love it.

You can read more about the Muxtape debate here: http://idolator.com/372511/new-online-mixtape-site-hopes-that-it-doesnt-get-recorded-over-by-rights-issues

ezra

Posted by ezra | March 26, 2008 4:19 PM