New open source mixtape software - Opentape. As they say in karaoke, it’s in the style of Muxtape.

Installation is simple: Download the files, install them on your web server, and you’re good to go.

My favorite trick is that I can upload the files directly to my server (which also lets me bypass the max file size restriction) and Opentape detects and adds them to the playlist - no more of this uploading one song at a time nonsense (it’d also be nifty to script something that’d upload the last file listened to in iTunes, creating an online mirror of what I’ve been listening to offline).

My only major problem? Same as it was with Muxtape - 98% of my music is stored as AAC files, leaving me with a small subset available for uploading. If I was one of those guys who knew stuff, I’d probably be able to look at the libraries Opentape uses and hack something together, but I’m not, so I’ll stick to my usual trick of waiting for someone else to do it.

Here’s an end of the summer playlist just for you.

# 2008 Aug 26