Filed under: Audio, Utilities, web 2.0
Opentape: Open source mixtapes? That's so indie.
If you're a fan of the breakout mixtape-sharing service Muxtape, you've probably noticed that they've been down for a while, dealing with a complaint from the RIAA. Who knows how long that could take, or whether they're even going to be back up at all? What's a mixtape lover to do? Well, some ingenious Muxtape fans have cooked up an open source solution for hosting your own mixes, using an admittedly Muxtape-inspired interface. It's called OpenTape, and you can host it easily on your own server, if you're running Apache and PHP5 (or some other servers the site doesn't specify, so give it a try for yourself if you're not sure.) There's a demo OpenTape up, and it does work almost exactly like Muxtape, although most of the features have been rewritten. The only code that's directly left over from Muxtape is the song reordering tool, and OpenTape is looking for someone to rewrite that, too. Long story short, this is a slick way to share music on your own site. Give it a look.
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Jordan Running said 2:16PM on 8-27-2008
Don't you mean, "That's so underground"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5-rGN0ou_4
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HD-Productions.biz said 6:54PM on 9-03-2008
Muxtape seems interesting and a good way to self promote and distribute music online or possibly podcast style material as well.
Will definitely check this out.
Team HD
http://www.hd-productions.biz
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