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CheffoJeffo:
Interesting ... but to be crystal clear, the "sharing" is of physical CDs, as opposed to playlists or digital copies, right ?

By way of background, I was a DJ in a previous life and I made many (!) mixed tapes and shared them with my friends when we all went off to university in 1985. In fact, most nights in August 1985 would find the lot of us at somebody's house making eleventy copies of somebody's mixed tape.

What you are looking for folks to do is physically stash their mixed CDs someplace and then for other folks to find and report on them -- right ?

It is an interesting idea and I totally love the potential for local bands to promote themselves in this fashion.



jaredhobbs:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on May 12, 2008, 05:14:58 pm ---Interesting ... but to be crystal clear, the "sharing" is of physical CDs, as opposed to playlists or digital copies, right ?

By way of background, I was a DJ in a previous life and I made many (!) mixed tapes and shared them with my friends when we all went off to university in 1985. In fact, most nights in August 1985 would find the lot of us at somebody's house making eleventy copies of somebody's mixed tape.

What you are looking for folks to do is physically stash their mixed CDs someplace and then for other folks to find and report on them -- right ?

It is an interesting idea and I totally love the potential for local bands to promote themselves in this fashion.

--- End quote ---

Thats correct, this is for sharing PHYSICAL cds or tapes. When you create a mixcd on the site, you type out the playlist and a location where you're going to drop it. There's a line in there for specific details too (ie. Left it in the Mechanical Engineering building, 1st level at UNM). The only people that can see the playlist is the person who created it and the people that have found it and entered the ID. Registered users can comment on a cd they found too.

For local band promotion, we were thinking of something like a little banner ad that links to a map with a special marker (like the cover art or something) on the location where they're leaving the cds. This location could be a record shop or a restaurant or whatever. When someone enters the ID for one of these special "promotions", it would still show up on the search map (a normal cd is taken out of the searches when it's been found).

CheffoJeffo:
This is really starting to intrigue me ... less for the sharing of *my* mixed CDs, but more for potentially sharing music from local artists.

I have CDs from a couple of local artists where I  have prior permission to duplicate and distribute as I see fit -- they have no illusions and just want their music heard.

Maybe I'll check with them and see what they think ... it can't be that much of a pain for me to make copies and leave them someplace to be found.

 :cheers:

jaredhobbs:
That would be pretty cool. I'm probably going to try to add those local artist promoting features some time this summer (when I have time!) We're also going to try to use this site to promote some local NM bands.

RayB:
Kinda weird honestly.

I prefer the money tracker I once saw stamped on a 10 dollar bill. Basically, you go to the URL, enter the unique # off the bill, and you get a history of all the people that bill has passed hands through (and who bothered to record receipt of it on the website). Real interesting to see where that money has travelled!

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