Mixtape.FM
introducing a new way to enjoy music!
Mix your favourite music blogs with your social bookmarks, add streaming radio and folksonomy… integrate with new music web services plus the latest web trends and what do you get…?
Social Music for the masses
Mixtape Democratic Radio Ver 0.8
What is it?
A fancy new website that collects your favourite music blogs, MP3s and net playlists into one universally accessible site. Read about music, discover new music, and listen to & download the latest songs based on your web-based bookmarks and the social bookmarks of thousands.
What does it do?
The use of a social bookmarking service allows you to bookmark practically any music service. You can save simple RSS or ATOM feeds from your favourite music blog, your XSPF playlists, even M3U radiostreams! The volume of music services is growing by the day, so you can aggregate all your favourite music from sites such as Imeem, IJig, The Hype Machine, BlogDigger or any blog from the thousands collected on el.bo.ws.
Furthermore, if you use last.fm webservices – which I highly recommend – you can save your recently played songs, find out which songs you already have in your collection and get advice on music that you would like but just haven’t yet heard.
How does it work?
The channels are saved in your favourite online social bookmark collection. If you don’t have one, look no further than Del.icio.us…
Simply save the RSS feed from your favourite music blog using the tag mp3blogfeed and your music-blog will be automatically available to everybody in the world on the home page with the most recent at the top. If you prefer to only see your own bookmarks, simply enter your del.icio.us username in the settings box, or if you are using another service, the correct RSS URL.
Playlists are automatically saved onto your hard disk as shared flash-cookies along with such useful things as volume and the last page you visited – dive back in from where you started!
What’s in store for the future…
- Better integration & support for M3U streaming audio files.
- Actionscript 3 version with interactive music controls, pitch, cue, crossfading between songs.
- Integrate last.fm radio stations for each user!
Technical details
Written entirely from the ground up in actionscript 2 – no components, no templates.
Uses Shared Local Objects to save xspf playlist, volume and recent browsing history.
Features javascript data api to allow bookmarking and the emailing of blog links.
Uses your existing social bookmarking services – imports RSS, XML & OPML.
Intelligent caching of data and pre-empting of user desired information.
Features a scrolling data window with mousewheel input, inertia and variable speed scrolling.
Posted on Saturday, August 25th, 2007 at 6:43 pm.