K.M.Krebs \ 833-45

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Mux­tape is a young web­site that went online in March of 2008. While it lacks an excit­ing, glossy inter­face that the iTunes gen­er­a­tion has come to expect (or even a search func­tion) it excels in two things:
1) It makes it dead sim­ple to share a mix-tape of your favourite music any­where an inter­net con­nec­tion exists.
2) It lets you find new music and bands in an organic and spon­ta­neous man­ner that is unmatched by any other online music site. Oh, and it’s entirely free.

Those of you who are old enough to recall those hours spent to make the per­fect mix-tape to impress your friends will enjoy this dig­i­tal take on the process. No more wor­ry­ing about the tape run­ning out half-way through the final track you’re des­per­ately try­ing to fit on the cas­sette. It also now inte­grates with Last.fm, so what you lis­ten to will be tracked on your last.fm profile.

While the Mux­tape site has a rather sparse inter­face, there are a few ways to get more out of it:
Muxtape.com/random — which does what you’d expect — take you to a ran­dom Mux­tape playlist
Mux­tape Stum­bler — allows you to search out playlists by artist or song titles.

Muxtape’s quickly grow­ing pop­u­lar­ity has been noticed in the music indus­try, with some chat­ter that it may be fac­ing legal chal­lenges in the near future. But, it has also been praised by a num­ber of smaller inde­pen­dent labels who under­stand the poten­tial of dig­i­tal dis­tri­b­u­tion and the fun­da­men­tal changes that the music indus­try is under­go­ing (or rather is in deep denial of). What­ever the future of Mux­tape may be, head there now and enjoy!

And this wouldn’t be com­plete with-out a link to my cur­rent Mux­tape: kmkrebs.muxtape.com.