holy bejeesus. Two of my favourite music websites, Last.fm and Muxtape now have integration.
The integration allows users of muxtape who have a last.fm account to scrobble the tracks they listen to on the former to the latter.
Why is this cool?
Well it means that muxtape are buying into the notion that openness and interoperability are the future and the notion of trying to secure absolute user loyalty on the web in closed eco-systems a la microsoft (damn, do we love blaming these guys for everything bad or what?) is a wasted one in 2008.
More practically speaking, that translates to me having one more website I can frolic on without feeling that weird feeling that I’m ‘wasting my listening.’
Don’t laugh, I’m dead serious.
I’ve so conditioned myself (though in true, 21st century “i’m-not-to-blame-for-my-own- problems” style I should say last.fm has conditioned me.) into a sort of investment frame of mind where I feel like all the scrobbling I’m doing with last.fm is contributing to something, one scrobble at a time.
If only I could adopt this frame of mind for actual investing and money management. Kyosaki would be proud I’m sure.
Whenever I happen upon another website, no matter how cool it is I find my interest waning for no reason other “I can’t scrobble it.” (Deezer do you see me looking at you?)
My whole quirk is pathetic. I know. Somehow I doubt I’m the only one like that though…. right?
Anyhow, scatter brained tangent come full circle – Muxtape is a great site. Its simple but it just works.
Its a site that allows you to put upload tracks into a playable list (errr… playlist?) that can be shared with other users. I imagine that muxtape might be right up your alley if you’re one of those sentimental types who:
- actually remember the 80’s and early 90’s;
- know what the very idea of music sharing meant in that era (complete with notions of uniqueness, effort and sincerity);
- still hold a grudge to the internet for how its shattered those notions since the chick you would have probably made a mixtape for doesn’t need you anymore thanks to things like pandora and youtube.
