poor Muxtape

http://www.muxtape.com/

Last activity: 13.05.2010

Probably Closed - Reference to Streaming Royalty

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United States, New York

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Mentions in press and media 25

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Nov 17, 2009	Future of Music Coalition’s Brian Zisk: The Do’s of Streaming Music	In 2008 the idea of another subscription-only music service was enough to get your knickers in a torrent. Sure Rhapsody was doing well, but they’d been around for forever and in 2008, freemium was the music model du jour. With a year to ref...
Jul 14, 2009	Eighteen Streaming Music Resources	According to The Leading Question’s recent research report, as many as 65% of UK teens are streaming music on a monthly basis. Meanwhile, file-sharing has decreased significantly since the Digital Britain Report consultation to address illi...
Jan 27, 2009	Muxtape Returns With a New Focus on Legal Music	We have often bemoaned the demise of Muxtape, one of our favorite online mixtape services. Sadly, Muxtape had to close shop because of the inevitable RIAA takedown notices. Now, however, Muxtape is getting ready for a comeback, but alas, it...
Oct 27, 2008	8tracks: The "Legal Muxtape" That Continues To Thrive	8tracks, the “legal Muxtape” that allows users to build playlists consisting of eight tracks and share them with friends, has launched a number of new improvements designed to flesh out the site beyond basic music playback. Users will now b...
Sep 27, 2008	Weekly Wrapup: Google Phone, MySpace Music, and More!	It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. This week we had two big product launches: the Google Phone and MySpace Music. We also looked at Favtape, a new startup aiming to shake up the online music market...
Sep 25, 2008	Muxtape Is Dead – Favtape Emerges as a Great Alternative	While Muxtape’s Justin Ouellette just posted a dire story about the shutdown of the popular mixtape service and his dealings with the music industry, Favtape has updated its service dramatically. Muxtape will effectively remain closed for t...
Sep 25, 2008	Tied Down By Legal Issues, Muxtape Returns In Name Only	Today the story of Muxtape, the popular but shortlived music service that let users create virtual mixtapes, has finally come to light. In a lengthy blog post on the site’s homepage, founder Justin Ouellette details his legal wranglings wit...
Sep 19, 2008	Favtape Relaunches As Muxtape On Steroids	It has been just over a month since Muxtape, a popular music site that let users share the online equivalent of cassette mixtapes, was shut down by the RIAA for copyright infringement issues. Since then we’ve seen the site reborn in a few i...
Sep 11, 2008	Dude, Where’s My App? 10 Web Apps We Wish Hadn’t Disappeared	We track hundreds of web apps here on ReadWriteWeb. Some, like YouTube and last.fm, become our favorites and prosper. But others sadly close down, or whither away due to not many people using them, or suddenly stop working for one reason or...
Aug 26, 2008	Opentape: Host Your Own Muxtape Clone	We were big fans of Muxtape here at ReadWriteWeb, but when the the virtual mixtape service shut its doors last week because of legal issues with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), it definitely left us wanting for more. L...
Aug 26, 2008	Muxtape Reborn, Unofficially, as OpenTape	The RIAA shut down Muxtape but that doesn’t mean its memory won’t linger on the hearts of those who must share their love of the Hold Steady with the world. Enter OpenTape, an open source package that essentially recreates the Muxtape exper...
Aug 22, 2008	Weekly Wrapup, 18-22 August 2008	It’s the weekend, so time to review the week’s web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we looked at the first reported Android phone, checked out the winners of the Firefox 3 Extensions contest, reviewed Mic...
Aug 20, 2008	Muxtape suspends its mixtape service, citing RIAA 'problem'	Music "mixtape" sharing site Muxtape has been pulled offline, with a notice saying it has to "sort out a problem with the RIAA." Its blog today contains the glib but equally nebulous statement, "No artists or labels...
Aug 19, 2008	Get mad: Muxtape knocked offline by the RIAA	Hey, you! Wanna be outraged? Try to go to muxtupe.com. Oh! It’s down, and thanks to the RIAA, no less! (Pandora Radio’s days may be numbered, too, by the way.) That said, muxtupe was one of those sites I’d heard about but never used for mor...
Aug 18, 2008	RIAA Takes Down Muxtape, Will Future Solutions Please Hurry Up & Arrive?	Popular playlist sharing site Muxtape is down and says that it’s because of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It might have been inevitable but the news will run chills down the spines of countless music sharers. It’s a ...
Aug 18, 2008	What Would the Perfect Streaming Music Service Look Like?	Pandora‘s on the ropes, Imeem is taking off, Grooveshark relaunched today with recommendations and a long list of cool features, Blip.fm threatens to make Muxtape look like old news – the streaming music market online is expanding and contr...
Jul 30, 2008	Some Web Apps Work Better Together	How many new websites can you fit in a Volkswagen Beetle? Sometimes it feels like that’s what we’re trying to do these days – but all these new applications and services don’t have to be crammed into our heads and lives as separate things t...
Jul 3, 2008	SeeqPod Launches PodLists	The music search engine SeeqPod has just announced a new service for music fans: “PodLists.” Because of the massive amount of playable search results available on the SeeqPod service – 12 million at the moment and ever-growing – it can be d...
May 26, 2008	Search Muxtapes With Muxfind	Muxtape, an online mix tape-making service, has been a big hit with music fans on the social web. The site lets you upload mp3s to create a playlist you can share with anyone. Now, a new service called Muxfind lets you to search through the...
May 25, 2008	muxfind	I posted about two new web-based mixtape services several months ago, muxtape and mixwit. I’ve played with both a bit and listened to a few mixes since. But neither service has taken me away from my primary web listening experiences; tumblr...
May 12, 2008	Twitter for Music	Twitter is an efficient technology for spreading and harvesting concise ideas. Unfortunately, it’s not so great for sharing rich media. Want to broadcast a video? You’ll have to settle for a TinyURL to YouTube, or maybe switch over to Seesm...
May 9, 2008	Is Pownce Developing A MP3 Player?	Daniel Burka, co-founder and head designer for Pownce, has generated some buzz by posting a screenshot teaser of an upcoming release (shown above). From what we can see in the shot – a search box, an upload link, and parts of the words “Art...
Apr 29, 2008	Can Web Apps Get Too Drunk on Aggregation?	There’s a mind-numbing amount of conversations and transactions going on around the internet these days and quality aggregation of content is a very hot trend. When is more too much, though? Are some aggregation services shooting themselves...
Mar 26, 2008	Mixtapes - A Hobby That Just Won't Quit	Back in the day of the cassette tape, making mixtapes was one of my favorite pastimes. I made them for friends. Friends made them for me. The Gotham Gal and I still have a whole drawer full of tapes we made for each other. We keep them at o...

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What has the press written about poor Muxtape?

Parsers VC has collected 25 articles mentioning poor Muxtape, among them “Future of Music Coalition’s Brian Zisk: The Do’s of Streaming Music” (Nov 17, 2009) and “Eighteen Streaming Music Resources” (Jul 14, 2009).

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poor Muxtape is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from May 13, 2010.