Since Muxtape went defunct last year only to be resurrected in a much more limited capacity, I haven’t been able to find an adequate platform to make streamable playlists (I’ve dabbled a little with some, but to not much success). That is, until now! To better beef-up my analysis of Reddit’s Top Albums of 2009, many people suggested creating a playlist of each band’s hit songs using a website called Grooveshark. Thank god for redditors, because this turned out to be one of the biggest discoveries of the year!
The premise is simple: you search for the song you want to add into your playlist, drag-and-drop it into a folder, and then share the URL of your mix with others! If you can’t find that song you’re looking for on their site, you can add to their massive library by uploading the track (if you happen to have a copy of the audio file). Yep, it’s THAT easy — and did I mention it’s all free?
To show an example, here are ten of my favorite songs which came out of 2009 that I whipped up in less than five minutes on grooveshark: