Remember the good old days, where you could make a mix for a friend without getting your ass sued back to the stone age by the RIAA? Muxtape remembers. The site is kind of like imeem minus all the crazy features. In fact, it's ridiculously simple: You register for an account, upload some songs, and....that's it. From what I've read, they're not really doing much in the way of looking into the rights associated with the songs you're uploading...yet.
Their terms of service crack me up:
Muxtape is a service for creating mixtapes. Users may not upload multiple songs from the same album or artist, or songs they do not have permission to let Muxtape use. Individual users may not create multiple muxtapes. Accounts not meeting these restrictions are subject to termination without notice. Muxtape will never reveal your email address to a third party. Muxtape is alive.
People have definitely made mixes using the same artist and album and apparently haven't been terminated yet. By the by, don't click too hard on that link - apparently Muxtape is suffering the Slashdot effect [Editor's note: do people still call it that? Is it "the Digg effect" now? Or simply "shitty infrastructure?"] and a lot of things are timing out. When you do get on, you may find, as I did, that no tracks play for you - instead of sweet, sweet music all I get is a javascript error informing me that the function I'm trying to call doesn't exist (I would give you the actual message, but in the few minutes since I started writing this post, all of the mixtapes have become completely unresponsive - one of them loaded for a minute, but instead of giving javascript errors it just did nothing at all).
Assuming they get their shit back together, I will make a mixtape and let you all know how it goes. In the meantime, here's hoping they don't get sued before they can fix their javascript.
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