I love the idea - I'll kick in when I get a computer after I move.

 lily34 wrote: 
men bow out. women curtsy out. 

 lily34 wrote: 
I'm piloting this month...going to be mindful of how long it takes me and how much it costs.  As long as the mail-out stays at twenty or below, I'm game to do it alone.  If the club gets larger, I'll ask someone to help me with the load and co-host.  The whole point is to stay true to the mixtape.

 lily34 wrote: 
I like having the CD as well. When friends of mine typically make me a mixed CD, I listen to it in my car more often than anywhere else. I might rip a couple of songs off of it if I want to add them to my iPod, but I like having the CD.

 manbirdexperiment wrote: 

Dang it! I knew there had to be a catch...

 not-a-fish wrote: 
Oh, not for us ADHD nukkelheads then. However, I shall do my best. 

 manbirdexperiment wrote: 

lol the mixtape culture picks a theme, slaves over a playlist, includes minimal to ellaborate cover art, and then sends it off - constantly thinking about it until someone finally comments on the songs you chose.

 not-a-fish wrote: 
i can see that, too.

just keep me in the loop. i can always bow out.

 lily34 wrote: 

It's my preference too, but I can see how mailing out 50 CDs to people can be a bummer.  I'm thinking of maybe taking on co-hosts (to split the mailings 2 or more ways) if the group gets huge, but right now it's under 10 members.

 not-a-fish wrote: 
Yeah.
 
But really I get a disc and stick it in the machine immediately anyway to rip it.

 Hairfarmer wrote: 
me too - I could have this done in about 5 minutes. 

 Hairfarmer wrote: 
i don't. i like having the physical things in hand. seems more personal. that's my preference.

 Hairfarmer wrote: 
Me too.  I suck at mailing stuff.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 

I like this idea better than mailing out physical discs. And I already have about a dozen hour-long, themed, mixes...

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
This is a cool thought.  I'd be willing to re-think logistics if others wouldn't mind sort of losing the overall "process of the tape".  By that I mean burning discs, liner notes, cover art, etc.  I like to do all these things, but would probably have to upload my notes and cover art, etc. because I can't do that times 50 and not end up hating my own idea :D

 kurtster wrote:  challenging and expensive...(my concern)

but i'm in, for now.

 kurtster wrote: 

Yup I am thinking if the club gets to be huge, we should add co-hosts and stuff ;)

 oldslabsides wrote: 

Yeeeeeup.  You certainly do! ;)

Cool idea. I'm in.

Now: Rather than burn a bunch of CDs and burn a bunch of postage, a person could *cough* upload *cough* the tracks, zipped and renamed DeckPlans.zip or something. Most of us get some amount of FTP space with our ISP accounts (tho few people actually use it). If you're on a mac you can share the file directly from your mac (as long as you're online), and you can upload to mac.com and I'm sure a lot of similar services exist for the PCs. If push comes to shove I could host it. Of course you don't want to have it be "MyFavoriteMusicMix.zip" or linked to from a hundred different websites, so keep that in mind. Mac.com (me.com now ) files that are shared can have an expiration date assigned so that would keep a file from being searchable next year...

This is a great idea.  Could become challenging burning 50 discs at once and mailing, but what they hey.  It is all about the segue after all.