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December 18th, 2:35am
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Mixwit shutting down
There was a mixtape revival in 2008, and it looks to be over. First
there was Muxtape, which provided a
cassette tape interface for audio playlists. Then there was Mixwit, doing basically the
same thing. Then Muxtape shut
down under threat from the music labels, and judging by the tag
line on the new Muxtape website, "relaunching soon, in the service
of bands", founder Justin Ouellette hopes to go legal. Now comes
news that Mixwit is closing its doors as well, saying
We’ve put a year of work into Mixwit so this choice wasn’t taken lightly. I won’t go into the details of our situation but state simply that we boldly marched into in a position best described as “between a rock and a hard place.”Filling the void now, Opentape.fm stands alone. And fittingly so. Opentape is software that allows people to host their own mixtapes. And it's open source. That combination of features will make it very hard for the music industry to shut down due to their copyright concerns. And if Mixwit donates their code to Opentape as suggested on their blog, Opentape will only get better and stronger.
