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19 July 2010

Modern mix tape solutions? Is there some service with which I could create the 2010 equivalent of a mix tape and send it to someone electronically, to be used thereafter on a portable device?→[More:]

Options I do not like:
1. I could make a mix cd. Great, except that I often get lazy and lose people's addresses and forget to get the right packaging and and and. (I had a BookMooch-related post about this once. I am not great with postal timeliness.)
2. I could make a zip file with the tracks in them. Okay, but some might be digitally protected (grr) and it would also not preserve that careful track order I worked so hard to create.
3. I could make a single long track of the album. Sucky, because I want people to be able to listen to the tracks individually in their own iTunes library or its equivalent.

Maybe I'm missing some service that all the cool kids know about. Thoughts?

post by: Madamina at: 16:17 | 7 comments

I use divshare sometimes. It's free, and you can create a folder, and put the tracks in there. Sometimes, re-ordering the tracks can be a nuisance, but I've always succeeded. Then, a person can stream it, OR download the whole kit.

posted by richat 19 July | 16:29

Do you want them to be available to multiple ppl to d/l over time, or are you wanting to send a bunch of music to one person in one swell foop?

posted by iconomy 19 July | 16:52

A friend of mine makes mixes and shares them through SoundCloud. If you want the end user to have access to the individual tracks, I don't think this would work, but if creating one file out of all the tracks is something you're interested in and capable of doing, it should be fine.

posted by EvaDestruction 19 July | 17:02

I'd like it to be sent to one person. If possible, I might send it to multiple people, but only one at a time -- like, say, if I make a mix for a friend, I might send it to my brother as well.

EvaDestruction, I'm capable of that but hoping to avoid it.

posted by Madamina 19 July | 17:20

Eideteker was coordinating a mixtape project here for a while called Mixsion Impossible. I think a lot of people used senduit.com to upload their mix and just posted a track list. I had no problem burning CD's using iTunes or Winamp or whatever I was using back then.

posted by youngergirl44 19 July | 17:33

I've not actually tested this, but I *think* you could send a bunch of tracks and an iTunes Playlist file to a friend. They would load the songs into iTunes and then import the playlist, and it would be there for them to play, put on their iPod, burn, whatever.

Instructions:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA47831?viewlocale=en_US

Not 100% sure that it won't break going from one computer to another... I don't know whether the playlist just stores the names of the songs, or if it stores absolute paths or some other machine-specific identifier.

posted by Kadin2048 20 July | 00:33

dropbox.com would allow you to share music with friends. A friend of mine in Montreal places music in a folder which only I have access to and I download them into my iTunes. When I find something he likes I put it in the same folder. This folder is on MY computer and auto-syncs with the service online.

posted by terrapin 20 July | 13:24

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