Now, the making of a good compilation tape is a very subtle art. Many do's and don'ts. First of all you're using someone else's poetry to express how you feel. This is a delicate thing

 If you are old school like me and still long for the days of mix tapes the site MuxTape is for you.

I have a certain amount of nostalgia for the creating a seamless tape of songs which were more then a jumbled together collection but had intent and purpose, ('a tape for Laura - her songs', 'the madness of living on 12th street').  The act of creating an analog mix tape is an art lost in the playlist era.  It is not that the thought process for creating the order of songs is any less, but the ease of building a list with drag and drop lacks the 'hands on effort' once required to operate multiple decks.

Mux Tape is nifty in that it attempts to give off the aura of old mix tape experience. It has a clunky interface, where you choose a list names which are set up as if you were digging through a cassette organizer looking at the cover labels.. Just like an old analog tape you can get the 'tape' but only know whats on the tape \ playlist by opening it. As an added fun the tape names are never in the same place when you get back to the main page - just like when your roommates took tapes and put them back wrong!

 Up until a few days ago a Muxtape user developed a search engine at muxfind.com which allowed searches of artist or song title. I loved the tool as I could find playlists with a band I desired then get to hear someone else’s take on what other songs work around it.  Unfortunately it appears the fear of the RIAA has gripped muxfind and they have pulled back the Song \ Artist search feature and offer only the URL or Playlist name search. 

While is a free steaming music site, Muxtape.com does not conflict with my previous entry the effects of freevirus as muxtape offers link for each song for purchase. via an Amazon link through. While the RIAA might get all hot n' bothered - me not so much.