I think Muxtape's goal is to get users to explore music organically and discover new tunes... at least, that's what it's getting me to do. I think the playlists on the user page could use smaller text and keep things above the fold so you can see all the songs in the list and a control for fast-forwarding or rewinding might help. That's nit-picking though... its simplicity supersedes most of my critique.
Here are links to other sites that kind of do the same thing: http://guitarati.com/ and Hype Machine: http://hypem.com Guitarati is okay, but their heavy reliance on color confuses me a bit -- they ask users to mark their music with a color that evokes a mood... which would be a great idea if it didn't isolate people with colorblindness. This isn't a music sharing site, either... well, it is, but anything released by a studio. Hype Machine is a great site for music discovery, but they've just recently redesigned it. The new UI is a tad bit more cluttered than the old UI, but now that I've spent some time on the site, I think like Hype Machine's new UI more than the old. Neither site beats Muxtape, though... IMHO, of course. On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Karthik Ram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is simple (to create and share) - but after that it needs work. > > It needs to address how someone discovers the playlist - and fast - having > a long page full of list names with different backgrounds tells me nothing. > Classification schemes , etc. were made to help with information discovery > as well as organization. One could be smart about it - given a song - you > can find out the genre , sub-genre , etc., for many cases and could organize > the playlist as leaning towards a certain thing. I'm sure it is a first cut > - for a first cut - its definitely good. > > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
