I understand how beautiful and simple it is, but for now it is much easier for artists to be discovered on MySpace. There are so many people on it. A person can upload two songs that they made in their basement with the built-in mic on their laptop and still get a large amount of people to listen to it just because the platform is MySpace music. I think it is great what Muxtape is doing. Their design and purpose is so much more greater than what MySpace could ever provide, but for now, I don’t see much competition in the works. I will be using my band GHOST MOUNTAIN on Muxtape for sure when I can. It seems great. I just hope that it will be able to compete and offer better utilities. I mean, without MySpace (this sounds stupid to say) my band would not be where it is today. Every show we play we have been asked through MySpace. It has linked us to multiple information sources that want to get our music out there. It has sort of brought us in closer to the Houston music scene. On the other hand, I hope Muxtape will launch successfully and be used excessively. I just don’t want it to be carded and discarded.
i think it’s actually easier to get discovered on muxtape. Myspace is so inundated that real people don’t use it anymore. a muxtape url can be disseminated just as easily to fans as a myspace url, and its visual constraints allow for more effective digestion of necessary information. myspace pages are more often than not grotesquely over-wrought and distracting/overwhelming to the eye. myspace functions effectively as a band networking tool and a means for bookers to investigate bands easily, but it also can work against legitimate hardworking artists, who do something special, but choose to focus their time on their music as opposed to adding as many friends as they can, or worse yet, who use bots to make themselves look popular. the muxtape platform allows for more parity and less poseryness. among other things. the fundmental leg-up that myspace has on every other music networking site is that is became industry standard before anything better or more agressively marketed was able to beat it out. Now people can’t let go of their play counts for which they have worked hundreds of hours. the egalitarian nature of muxtape could actually be seen as a detractor for some, or at least narrow it’s user base, because it takes a special kind of individual to weed through the multitudes of musicians that have already signed up. The reason for radio, blogs, etc. is to weed out the shit, which is obviously desirable to the average listener. but the curious and adventurous individual can have a field day on this site. i also feel that the caliber of artist currently on muxtape is generally higher than on myspace.
