Comments on: Muxtape: Bringing Back The Art of The Mixtape http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2008/04/19/muxtape-bringing-back-the-art-of-the-mixtape/ I say potato, you say potato... Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:36:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Lorenzo http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2008/04/19/muxtape-bringing-back-the-art-of-the-mixtape/comment-page-1/#comment-43680 Lorenzo Thu, 01 May 2008 21:54:06 +0000 http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/?p=724#comment-43680 Any good mix ends with Rick Astley! Sweet. Pretty cool idea they have here. One thing this website doesn't have that mix tapes had is the ability to personalize the tape itself. You can draw stars and lions and put cool stickers of Paula Abdul (when she used to be hot). Kudos though. I think I'll make a mix too, and it is also going to end with Rick Asley. p.s. My first walkman didn't even have a rewind button. I think the brand was GTX or something like that. I later bought a real Sony Walkman. It had auto reverse a digital clock an FM tuner and even a rewind button. Any good mix ends with Rick Astley! Sweet. Pretty cool idea they have here. One thing this website doesn’t have that mix tapes had is the ability to personalize the tape itself. You can draw stars and lions and put cool stickers of Paula Abdul (when she used to be hot). Kudos though. I think I’ll make a mix too, and it is also going to end with Rick Asley.

p.s. My first walkman didn’t even have a rewind button. I think the brand was GTX or something like that. I later bought a real Sony Walkman. It had auto reverse a digital clock an FM tuner and even a rewind button.

]]> By: RObert Gordon http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2008/04/19/muxtape-bringing-back-the-art-of-the-mixtape/comment-page-1/#comment-42529 RObert Gordon Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:31:06 +0000 http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/?p=724#comment-42529 According to Compete.com it's more than twice as popular as last.fm in the US - here's a nice compilation of stats. http://davidporter.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/top-25-music-sites-march-2008/ I've read a few other blog posts that speculate as to the real longevity of muxtape, by the time it's big enough to sign major label licenses it's going to be competing with myspace, imeem and last.fm, and with VC's tightening their belts the money to pay the labels isn't going to be forthcoming. So it'll probably go indie only, but even then it'll need a ton of cash to pay salaries and infrastructure so it'll either start spamming ads all over the site, or start charging users for the site. The only other option is a radio type stream, but then it'll be competing in an even more crowded market. According to Compete.com it’s more than twice as popular as last.fm in the US - here’s a nice compilation of stats.

http://davidporter.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/top-25-music-sites-march-2008/

I’ve read a few other blog posts that speculate as to the real longevity of muxtape, by the time it’s big enough to sign major label licenses it’s going to be competing with myspace, imeem and last.fm, and with VC’s tightening their belts the money to pay the labels isn’t going to be forthcoming. So it’ll probably go indie only, but even then it’ll need a ton of cash to pay salaries and infrastructure so it’ll either start spamming ads all over the site, or start charging users for the site.

The only other option is a radio type stream, but then it’ll be competing in an even more crowded market.

]]> By: Hung http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2008/04/19/muxtape-bringing-back-the-art-of-the-mixtape/comment-page-1/#comment-42406 Hung Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:00:54 +0000 http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/?p=724#comment-42406 For some reason I forgot about imeem. I thought it wasn't as big as last.fm either. I guess I could check it out again. For some reason it just doesn't look that great, though. For some reason I forgot about imeem. I thought it wasn’t as big as last.fm either. I guess I could check it out again. For some reason it just doesn’t look that great, though.

]]> By: Rob Gordon http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2008/04/19/muxtape-bringing-back-the-art-of-the-mixtape/comment-page-1/#comment-42384 Rob Gordon Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:53:27 +0000 http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/?p=724#comment-42384 Yes muxtape is basicly trying the strategy of trying to build a big enough userbase to demonstrate the value of their service before they get sued. Which brings me to the site which you didn't mention - imeem.com muxtape's entire website is basicly a stripped down copy of the playlist feature from imeem.com - imeem is best described as 'youtube for music' (although imeem only has 20million users compared to yotube's 100million). it's been around since 2004. And for the last year it's been totally legal. they got sued and instead of fighting it they made deals to make sure the artists get paid, and now it looks like muxtape has copied Like last.fm imeem also has some limits on tracks - no beatles tracks allowed. But you really should check it out and compare it, as far as web2.0 music sites go imeem is the most popular with last.fm in second place. Yes muxtape is basicly trying the strategy of trying to build a big enough userbase to demonstrate the value of their service before they get sued.

Which brings me to the site which you didn’t mention - imeem.com

muxtape’s entire website is basicly a stripped down copy of the playlist feature from imeem.com - imeem is best described as ‘youtube for music’ (although imeem only has 20million users compared to yotube’s 100million). it’s been around since 2004. And for the last year it’s been totally legal. they got sued and instead of fighting it they made deals to make sure the artists get paid, and now it looks like muxtape has copied

Like last.fm imeem also has some limits on tracks - no beatles tracks allowed. But you really should check it out and compare it, as far as web2.0 music sites go imeem is the most popular with last.fm in second place.

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