Opentape
In response to Muxtape being taken down, Opentape has appeared as a self-hosted alternative and so I took a quick look over my recent music-playing trends and created a little mix that gives an idea of what I’m listening to at the moment. I might put a bit more thought into a follow-up, and try and either make it my favourite songs or perhaps songs around a theme? We’ll see.
There are plans for future versions of the software to (optionally) call home and create a directory of Opentapes, which is an interesting idea as at the moment there isn’t really a definitive way of finding other peoples collections. Searching Twitter is as good a place as any (people like to show off these kinds of things!).
It shouldn’t need saying that I’m doing this in the hope that at least one of the tracks will be enjoyed by someone enough that they’ll go on to buy the album. Perhaps some kind of integrated ‘Buy This’ system, that links to iTunes or Amazon, would keep the industry-people happy enough to leave it alone?