If you haven’t heard yet, Muxtape is an awesome site where you can create your own public mixtape on the web with up to 12 different songs. My colleagues and I really dug it, but we found that the good hip-hop mixtapes were too few and far in between, and wanted a better way of collecting them all. That’s where the idea of HipHopMuxtape.com came from. Using Rails, JQuery, and quickly learning a Ruby web scraping tool - Scrubyt - I was able to build the site and bring it up in a few hours. Here are the results:

I keep a database of muxtapes that are designated as “hip-hop”, and allow for anyone to submit muxtapes that they feel are hip-hop. I also allow for people to browse through all of the muxtapes and designate what is and what isn’t hip-hop:

I hope to eventually be able to index the whole site.

So check it out, bump some new music (btw my muxtape is food.muxtape.com), and enjoy!

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