Bringing back the mixtape

I stumbled across two websites recently devoted to the beloved mixtape and was intrigued by their promise. I'm not sure of the legal ramifications of what they are doing vis-a-vis copyright laws, but their Terms of Use would seem to indicate they pay royalties to the necessary places. I uploaded a mix to each site to get a feel for how each of them worked. In short, very simply. It is hard to imagine the process being much easier.

With Mixwit you search for songs online using a couple of different search engines, and then can upload/link them to your playlist. You can also add your own artwork and a number of other personal touches. Since you aren't actually uploading songs from your computer it is quite fast. The drawback is that some of the songs you find won't play (it flags this for you and advises you to test them out before publishing your mixtape). Here's the first one, on Mixwit:

And the second one, from Muxtape. With Muxtape you upload songs from your collection. I'm not sure if it was just a bad night, but it took forever to upload songs.

From their website: Muxtape is a service for creating mixtapes. Users may not upload multiple songs from the same album or artist, or songs they do not have permission to let Muxtape use. Individual users may not create multiple muxtapes. Accounts not meeting these restrictions are subject to termination without notice. Muxtape will never reveal your email address to a third party. Muxtape is alive.

Here's my Muxtape mixtape: http://imurphy.muxtape.com/