
Mixwit is a simple Web site that enable users to create a mix of their favorite music, and then share it amongst their friends. This Mixwit, is a mashup that truly special and user-friendly. There are only three (3) steps involved in order to create a mix, making it possible for even a novice user to complete the mixtape creation process.
To create a mixtape, you can search your favorite music by placing some keywords such as name of the artist, song, album or genre to the search bar, Mixwit will then return the songs available through some MP3 music sources across the Web. From the songs, you can drag-n-drop the songs in order to create your own library of playlists. However, not every song you selected would be available for you to compile a track since Mixwit is only working on the APIs of Skreemr, Seeqpod, and ccMixter. In other words, it does not guarantee the availability of the songs as Mixwit does not store the songs in its back-end engine. Nevertheless, the songs that are not available at any point from the URL link repository of Skreemr, Seeqpod, and ccMixter will be labeled in yellow color for the user attention. The idea was that the song files will always be stayed in the original location on the Web.
In addition, Mixwit also taken into account flexibility. It means you are allowed to add style, i.e. in the forms of any skin, color and style, including glossiness, edges, and shadow to the mixtape. Besides, you also can upload your own pictures, photos, artwork, or drawings instead of the basic skins that prepared by Mixwit. Also, you can alter the text format or add the title and description of the mixtape. After you finishing any of these style adding actions, you can save your work and publish it to the Mixwit community.
In July this year, Mixwit has rolled out a fans/following feature. It was Mixwit’s first foray into the social networking activity. As the feature name implied, if you like the playlists someone is making, you can become a fan and following what they do. This approach is known for connecting users in a basic and yet simple manner. In this way, whenever you’ve made a mixtape, your fans will receive notifications. By the way, if you come across any mixtape you like, you can add it as favorite for bookmarking purpose.
To encourage users register themselves in the system, Mixwit has implemented a way to assign a mix path URL in a readable format, i.e. in text form. For anonymous users, the mixtapes they created will receive an usual ugly 32-character codes, and the username appeared besides the mixtape will be “Guest.” For anonymous users, they will not get the second chances to edit their mixtapes after they finishing the aforesaid three (3) steps. In contrast, registered users have more options in terms of editing and saved account capabilities.
Nevertheless, any public mixtape can be shared across the Web as a gigya widget, allowing you to direct posting to a number of sites such as Blogger, MySpace, WordPress, Bebo, Friendster, just to name a few.
Mixwit is a startup that went public beta in March this year, as well as being funded by Y Combinator.
Update: Mixwit has been closed down on May 2009.