11th
Muxtape
I’ve recently become an avid Muxtape user. The primary reason is that it’s so darn convenient. I’m also a Last.fm user, so let’s compare the two:
- Muxtape: Visit homepage > Click a user > Click a song
- Last.fm: Visit homepage > Login > Click Listen > Click a station > Click Play
Clearly, Last.fm is much more inconvient. It has at least five extra clicks and the music isn’t ‘actual’ music, it’s random and unpredictable. You’ll probably never hear the same song more than twice.
On the other hand, Muxtape is actual user-uploaded music. It’s very fast and very clean. You can easily save a muxtape as a favorite and revisit that set of songs as many times as you would like.
One little feature that I like a LOT about Muxtape is that it changes the page title to the artist and song currently playing. That’s SUPER convenient, as I don’t need to flip to the tab, where there’s a tiny ticker scrolling the artist name and song title. It’s right there in my tabs. And if I do visit the tab it see what’s next, the song title and artist are in 48pt font and highlighted in gray. How much more usable could it get?
