Thinking about what a good mixtape format would be today, assuming people mostly don't have actual tape decks.
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Thinking about what a good mixtape format would be today, assuming people mostly don't have actual tape decks.
One continuous audio file with all songs joined together?
Offline html page with an embedded audio player?
Other ideas? Should be independent of streaming services.
@aesthr Duxtape was a cool implementation of a decentralized/offline web page using the dat/hypercore network, back when Beaker Browser was a thing before the remaining founder quit to work on Bluesky instead. It worked more or less like Muxtape and its clones did back in the filesharing wars, but anyone could clone it and rehost it from their computer.
GitHub - kickscondor/duxtape: A simple way to create distributed mixtapes in the Beaker Browser. A Muxtape clone.
A simple way to create distributed mixtapes in the Beaker Browser. A Muxtape clone. - kickscondor/duxtape
GitHub (github.com)
Technically dat & hypercore still exist, but I feel momentum was lost when Beaker died.
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Thinking about what a good mixtape format would be today, assuming people mostly don't have actual tape decks.
One continuous audio file with all songs joined together?
Offline html page with an embedded audio player?
Other ideas? Should be independent of streaming services.
@aesthr one mix file is best imo
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Thinking about what a good mixtape format would be today, assuming people mostly don't have actual tape decks.
One continuous audio file with all songs joined together?
Offline html page with an embedded audio player?
Other ideas? Should be independent of streaming services.
@aesthr I'm very partial to the offline page idea, having recently built a web app easter egg where I can drag audio files onto a small tape deck (with appropriate sound effects when a tape is inserted and play is pressed) and then there's a visualizer as the song plays. Supporting a whole playlist should be trivial too.
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Thinking about what a good mixtape format would be today, assuming people mostly don't have actual tape decks.
One continuous audio file with all songs joined together?
Offline html page with an embedded audio player?
Other ideas? Should be independent of streaming services.
@aesthr ich find die Idee mit html page und auio player am besten.
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Thinking about what a good mixtape format would be today, assuming people mostly don't have actual tape decks.
One continuous audio file with all songs joined together?
Offline html page with an embedded audio player?
Other ideas? Should be independent of streaming services.
@aesthr a bunch of mp3 files with accompanying playlist file and a copy of Winamp altogether on a usb stick
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Thinking about what a good mixtape format would be today, assuming people mostly don't have actual tape decks.
One continuous audio file with all songs joined together?
Offline html page with an embedded audio player?
Other ideas? Should be independent of streaming services.
@aesthr realistically if i got a zip file with tracks named to sort correctly that would be great. like 01- 02- etc
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@aesthr one mix file is best imo
@roughling @aesthr Seconding the single file approach. It gets closest to the old pass-it-around experience.
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Thinking about what a good mixtape format would be today, assuming people mostly don't have actual tape decks.
One continuous audio file with all songs joined together?
Offline html page with an embedded audio player?
Other ideas? Should be independent of streaming services.
The idea of a mixtape was your choice flowed from one to the next and the recipient / listener couldn’t really skip around so I’d say the continuous audio file would be closest, depending on files size limitations. An offline page would still allow you to hop around (I think, depending on application).
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Thinking about what a good mixtape format would be today, assuming people mostly don't have actual tape decks.
One continuous audio file with all songs joined together?
Offline html page with an embedded audio player?
Other ideas? Should be independent of streaming services.
@aesthr One file but implement an instant 45 minute minus the played amount fast forward button to replicate flipping the tape over. Also at least a minute or two of dead air halfway through the track lol
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Thinking about what a good mixtape format would be today, assuming people mostly don't have actual tape decks.
One continuous audio file with all songs joined together?
Offline html page with an embedded audio player?
Other ideas? Should be independent of streaming services.
@aesthr One continuous audio file with chapter marks, like Matroska audio supports (mka)
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Thinking about what a good mixtape format would be today, assuming people mostly don't have actual tape decks.
One continuous audio file with all songs joined together?
Offline html page with an embedded audio player?
Other ideas? Should be independent of streaming services.
@aesthr static website with Faircamp or similar solution: https://simonrepp.com/faircamp
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@aesthr One continuous audio file with chapter marks, like Matroska audio supports (mka)
@dascandy I don't think most people's playback software (probably just the default media player on their phones) will support those chapter marks so that might be a wasted effort
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@dascandy I don't think most people's playback software (probably just the default media player on their phones) will support those chapter marks so that might be a wasted effort
@aesthr Not many people's playback software will start supporting it if nobody uses it. Given how Youtube marks its chapters, there's a definite use and demand for it.
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Thinking about what a good mixtape format would be today, assuming people mostly don't have actual tape decks.
One continuous audio file with all songs joined together?
Offline html page with an embedded audio player?
Other ideas? Should be independent of streaming services.
@aesthr mixtape usb stick?
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Thinking about what a good mixtape format would be today, assuming people mostly don't have actual tape decks.
One continuous audio file with all songs joined together?
Offline html page with an embedded audio player?
Other ideas? Should be independent of streaming services.
@aesthr what about bin/cue files? VLC and foobar (and more) can play them, you can directly write to disk if you have the hardware and if the recipient really wants single files they can be split up automagically via the cue files.
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@aesthr what about bin/cue files? VLC and foobar (and more) can play them, you can directly write to disk if you have the hardware and if the recipient really wants single files they can be split up automagically via the cue files.
@xenia that doesn’t seem like a solution that works for most people who would most likely receive this on their phones
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Thinking about what a good mixtape format would be today, assuming people mostly don't have actual tape decks.
One continuous audio file with all songs joined together?
Offline html page with an embedded audio player?
Other ideas? Should be independent of streaming services.
@aesthr A friend did a single long Audacity project (with music and some extra stuff like funny quotes) which has been enjoyed in that format and also exported both to an audio file with some reasonable parameters and a truly terrible mp3 uploaded to the Signal group chat as a voice message
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