Cinnie said:

Have fuuuunnnnn

magnificentsynthesizer said:

Muxtape says: "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. "

So, i'm not sure on the legal side of things. While it seems nice, I'm still voting for a hardcopy to be received and send every week. It might be a bit more costly and takes more effort, but I prefer a cd I can play in the stereo.

HamsterHuey said:

Happy to see you in on this!

Oh, and thanks for the input on muxtape...

You bring quite some interesting alternatives though. yousendit could be something.

1) Real mail I'll offer to make a list of who sends to whom, based on who is closest to you, so the disc won't make 20 roundtrips across the globe, but just one.
2) muxtape Let's you upload your ten songs and lets others stream your music.
3) yousendit Sends the mp3s to you to listen to the music as you please.

I vote for #1.
What do you all think?

Sander said:

I am rather for Muxtape (oldfashioned, not mixed) but I normally mix songs, so I might want to opt for yousendit. Why not use modern techniques?

muxtape seems to have been tailor made for this org activity. i think it is perfect.

it's a separate site so it doesn't violate the org rules.

everyone here obviously has an internet connection.

there is a track restriction so we know people will follow the org rule of ten songs.

and it is FREE, unlike the cost of shipping around cdrs What is this 1997? Why would we do that. Let's not.


MUXTAPE

Big shout to the homieHuey for the suggestion.

Cinnie said:

And it is easily shared here as a link. You can only play the song or buy it. It's all good that way.

oh wait, stream only on muxtape?

hmmmmm, might have to recall that

How would that even fucking work to "buy" the songs we are uploading to Muxtape?

I'm gonna be putting up a few rare-ass joints that sure as hell ain't on iTunes.

Cinnie said:

It refers to amazon.com and searches for something similar. Amazon then says: "Your search "rare-ass joint" did not match any products."

Sander said:

I don't mind option #3, but I recall at least one of us saying she has a dial up connection so uploading/downloading songs would be difficult for her. Either #1 or #3 is okay with me.

How are we going to handle the write up part? I was thinkin that maybe each week, based on who's mix is featured we had a sticky thread where for 5 days it's locked and the person featured has their write up presentation on the thread and we listen for those 5 days and then give it 2 days for comments?

Too complicated?

Sander said:

theAudience says he might be in once we figure out what the hell we're doing exactly.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

It depends on how we circulate the tunes. Obviously your idea won't work if we snail mail each disc from person to person for a week.

sextonseven said:

Right.....



Since this thread is about the technological approach to a mix, shouldn't we also utilize technology in the delivery and execution of the project itself? That seems to be more in keeping of the spirit of this whole discussion. Someone can always burn and mail a copy to the dial up challenged orger
[Edited 5/27/08 12:49pm]

for the record.... I am still battling my choices! I've got 7 for sure and 3 keep vascilating. anyone else having this issue? Whoever suggested the 10 song limit needs to be slapped!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

sextonseven said:

It was you?!!! What good fortune I have!

sextonseven said:

I have dial~up (surely not by choice ) but orgnoted Sander that I could send my disc to you or Chris and maybe you could put my songs up. Don't know how I'd get to hear the others but maybe someone could make me a couple discs or 20 . I would gladly pay the postage in FOREVER stamps.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Yeah, I think we can still include whoever that one person is, and continue with something really easy technologically like www.sendspace.com links.

I have already hosted my own mixtapes on sendspace before and they were fast to upload and even faster to download***! (A key component when you're getting mixes times ten after uploading once)

MoonSongs said:

Are you okay with a MP3 cd? That way practically all compilations would fit on one disc. It would kinda make sense to ask whoever is closest to you.

About the write-up. A thread on here seems a bit wrong, since most orgers don't know about this project. We shouldn't rub it in by getting them excited about music they can't hear. (Well they can go to muxtape and listen, but I'm sure a lot of people would want in all of a sudden). So I guess orgnotes, or some parallel dimension (other message board)?

To sum it up:
*There're 13 of us now.
*Yousendit.com to distribute. (Moonsong will send and get old-school mail to/by the orger of the month).
*Write-up (explanatory text document about the songs) through orgnote or along with yousendit.
*One week per compilation. To digest and discuss.
*The discussion, and potential 'best of' compilation, takes place at prince.org fan gatherings (tumbleweed area). Anyone knows of a better place?

We're almost ready to go!

I selected a lot of music that isn't really known, but now it's all over the map, it's spanning too many genre's. I still have a lot of cutting to do. Supa, you should be happy you already have 7 selected songs!

We need seven more people!

I orgnoted lilgish about this project, but he's on the org so infrequently, who knows when he'll get back to us. Paligap might be a good person to invite too.

If theres still room to play, count me in!

sextonseven said:

Gots to have Pali involved!

Sander said:

Well there are 35 songs that qualified and then got knocked out!

can i enter the one i posted?

Sander said:

Spanning too many genres? You might want to skip my mix then. It goes from goth to folk to Britpop to Latin to R&B to punk. If I knew a polka song I liked, I would have thrown that in there too.

IAintTheOne said:

Nope! It's not supposed to be a "mix" per se. 10 songs that you feel need to be heard!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

awww dayum...

magnificentsynthesizer said:

I orgnoted Pali. I hope he's in.