Muxtape
Muxtape has a simple, colorful interface and a stack of cool music buried within. The site is a fun new way for members to upload playlists of their favorite tunes for others to enjoy. It’s been doing the viral email rounds lately, which, given the musical discovery angle, it’s hardly surprising. We think it’s nice. Nice.
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Andy said | 30 April, 2008
Wow… this dude has just written some RoR code to download muxtapes to iTunes… rad!
http://github.com/benschwarz/muxtape-rb/tree/master