Favtape: my new favfriend. This summer a website named Muxtape emerged onto the scene that let you upload music tracks and create your own “internet mixtape” any user could listen to. It (very) quickly become uber popular. A search function appeared and within a few days you were able to find almost any song you wanted to listen to online quickly and easily. And mind you, you DON’T download the track, and there were options for where to buy the track.
However, recently the music industry caught up to its creator and put a stop to the wonderful free service that so many people used and relied on. People kinda felt lost, not wanting to revert back to their old, harder ways of finding music.
Enter Favtape. Favtape picks up where Muxtape left off. It has pretty much all the functionality and a similar look as Muxtape, but it adds more functionality. Now you can create a favtape from your last.fm or pandora loved tracks. Or create a favtape around a specific artist search. Amazing! There is also links now to lyrics and twittering and adding to your tape and much more.
Favtape still needs a good way to search others favtapes, as a big part of Muxtape was seeing other peoples’ music tastes and learning new music through their muxtapes. But what I really love is seeing other developers stepping in for a fallen ally. I hope this becomes a trend…if favtape falls lets see another, and another. As Justin says in his last Muxtape post:
The industry will catch up some day, it pretty much has to. – Justin
The screenshot you see above is actually a styling I did of Favtape. As awesome as it is, the look of the site was slightly off-the-wall and too much pink, so if you’d like my cleaned up version using Stylish if you have Firefox, load it here.
Cheers,
Matthew Lettini
