An explosion of interest and blogging in the last couple of days for http://muxtape.com/, and you can see why.
It’s a simple idea (make an online mixtape) that takes advantage of some nice accessible technologies and makes you think - sure - I’ll do that. Hey presto, you have a really nice music site up and running within a few days! I made one but there are only a few tracks on it now.
The owner is doing some really quick development, adding new features daily. The front page currently has some randomly (?) picked links to users, much like the first Musical Taste homepage did. Except on Musical Taste you couldn’t listen to tracks, which is a big difference!
Muxtape is so elegant and appealing that it’s hard to imagine anyone kicking up a stink about it, but hang on a minute - 99% of the MP3s people are uploading are copyrighted! So - it remains to be seen if Muxtape can pull off a YouTube and somehow deal with the legal problems later. I hope it can. I guess the more users it gets, the more likely that is…
Footnote: I had a similar idea once!: compare Radio Delicado with my muxtape…