Posts Tagged with ‘Muxtape’

Bad news for multiple fans of the music mixtape startup Muxtape - RIAA has shut the service and no one even seems to have any details. What probably happened is that RIAA has realized that users uploaded and shared tons of music and invited their friends to stream it while online radio sites are supposed to pay huge licensing fees for a very similar type of activity.
The site itself is down and shows only the text “Muxtape will be unavailable [...]

There's been an alarming trend in music services launching recently. In an era in which the recording industry fears just about everything electronic, most music services have a lot to worry about besides just getting users and making money. Muxtape search engine Muxfind had even removed the ability to search by artist for a while because of fear of legal repercussions. (After all, if Torrent indexers can be sued, why not a search engine for a site that potentially infringes [...]

Ubuket is the new darling of the music playlist creation set. Entering the ring with recent darlings MuxTape and Grooveshark, among others, Ubuket gives you a way to pull music from a variety of places online and on your computer and make playlists. You can even grab music from video sites like YouTube.
Ubuket is quite easy to use. Once you sign up you can grab tunes from a variety of places, including your computer, and turn them into playlists for [...]

Music Web 2.0 applications are hot right now. There are tons of complex applications out there right now as companies try to create the first, best monetized model for online music, like Grooveshark . What about the people who don’t want the time involvement and learning curve of a more complex site like Grooveshark? For them, there is now Muxtape.
Muxtape is the Web 2.0 version of those mixed tapes you made for people in your high school and college [...]