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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

News Muxtape Relaunch

Posted by Alison Hallett on Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM

The mixtape-sharing website Muxtape (read about it here) shut down over the summer, citing problems with the RIAA. But now it's back, albeit it in a different and more limited legal form. There's an interview with founder/former Portlander Justin Ouellette over at the New Yorker, describing the site's future as a sort of social networking/music-sharing platform. Read all about it here.

Visually and functionally, Muxtape is great. The interface loads quickly, makes immediate sense, and doesn’t come burdened with the flash animation and banners that ruin so many MySpace pages. But the beauty of MySpace is that anyone can start a page and put music up quickly. I can’t think of a musical act that isn’t on MySpace. Will acts be able to make Muxtape pages easily, or will they have to go through a submission process? I can imagine Muxtape taking the lead in music the way Facebook took the lead in social networking.

Muxtape is going to be an invite-only system to start with. As a band, you’ll need to be invited by another band in order to create a profile. It won’t be this way forever, but we want to make sure we can effectively combat abuse and provide the best experience for everyone before we open the floodgates. Even Facebook didn’t let everyone sign up right away.

 

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