by Jason Wilk on October 27, 2008
- 8Tracks is another online music playlist builder that users can share with eachother, follow playlist updates (twitterish), and it’s legal?
- For the time being they have been permitted to operate as a small online radio station, thus giving them a discount on the royalty fees, getting the RIAA off their back…..for now
- 8Tracks joins recently shut down MuxTape along with OpenTape, FavTape and Grooveshark in the embeddable, sharable, emailable music playlist space.
- Will anyone besides MySpace survive the legal playlist scene?
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by Jason Wilk on October 27, 2008
- Project Playlist, is both a search engine and a playlist generator.
- Search for music that’s located on third party websites and then create playlists which can be embedded anywhere.
- They’ve had 822 million page views from 9.3 million uniques in September, which is an increase from last year’s 446 million and 5 million.
- Hmmm. Think we just wrote about a similar service about 30min ago regarding Muxtape, Grooveshark and OpenTape. Wonder who will get called by the RIAA frist (Muxtape already had to shut down last month)
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by Jason Wilk on October 26, 2008
- This week Grooveshark launched embeddable playlist widgets (pictured left) for users to post to over thirty different sites including MySpace, Blogs, etc.
- You can also email the digital mixtape to a friend or yourself in a one song format (pictured right) or as many as 2000.
- Very interesting to see another startup enter into the mixtape scene, as we have seen Muxtape shut down by the RIAA and OpenTape, FavTape, and Tumbltape copycats.
- In the past year, Groovershark has grown from 15K uniques a month to now 110K. How long before they will start showing up on the RIAA’s radar?
by John Jorgensen on September 26, 2008
- Justin Ouellette, founder of Muxtape, the streaming mixtape creation site that he recently shut down, has written on the site that he is planning to re-launch as a distribution platform for indie bands.
- Ouellette said that even though he had tacit licensing agreements with the 4 major labels, that didn’t stop the RIAA from threatening him with a lawsuit that would cost him millions to fight, money that the ex-Vimeo employee didn’t have.
- With MuxTape gone, FavTape has emerged as the dominant web mixtape creation service.
- Oullette told Rolling Stone that MySpace Music’s model is out-dated, has poor navigation and won’t succeed.
- Editor: So now the RIAA is killing deals that the labels like? And how long until FavTape runs into the same problems as Muxtape?
by glu on September 19, 2008
- Favtape has added mixtape creation functionality to its music sharing/discovery service.
- Create a mixtape from “millions” of songs and then embed it in blogs/social networks.
- Search feature creates a mixtape from your query on-the-go.
- Create a mixtape from your most recent Last.fm plays, or from the most popular songs on Last.fm’s service.
- Thumbnails link to YouTube music videos. Album art also included.
- iPhone optimized.
Deadline ’til the RIAA hammer of justice?
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