I didn’t really blog about Muxtape, but I intended to. Many of you discovered it all on your own, without my help. For those lucky few, it came and went so fast, we were left a bit perturbed without cool user generated mix tapes to listen to. Admittedly, I found a way to download mp3′s from other Muxtapes via a highly contended greasemonkey script. Naturally, when the RIAA came knocking on Muxtapes door, I was a bit more disappointed than most. Muxtape was my escapists return to Napster 1.0, with thousands of individually created libraries to listen to and download from. Many savvy audiophiles took care in selecting the kind of music they would add, and of course in what order.
Muxtape may be down but Justin’s concept lives on through OpenTape. A new kind of mix tape software, it may just be the promiscuous cousin of the former service. It’ll run on just about any PHP5 web server. For those with the means, OpenTape essentially allows us to host our own special version of Muxtape. I missed my library enough to install it and get it playing with even more great music.
