Categories: Technology

ShareTapes Revamp Retro Music Mixtapes With Today’s Technology

Unfortunately the times when we sat down and compiled our music mixtapes are long gone. It’s a shame really. Who doesn’t remember the retro feeling of receiving a mixtape from a friend who told you all about the similar taste in music you both had? Today that is rare, and friendships are based on common status updates on Facebook instead. Don’t fret! A new startup called ShareTapes might just bring all that retroness back into our lives with their idea.

Undertaking this project is a way to preserve the retro look and feel of actually compiling and sharing your mixtape with your friends. Without that, the idea has little meat to it. The way ShareTapes work is very similar to how music mixtapes worked back on the old days. However, instead of using the retro cassette (which I am sure some of you young people have no idea what that is), they use QR and NFC codes to make sure the music mixtapes are easily shared.

The codes are encoded on the ShareTapes, and when they are scanned, the music mixtape is instantly downloaded from Spotify, 8Tracks or even YouTube. It’s a noble idea and one that might just become popular quickly. You simply create your music mixtape compilation on one of these services and then link the list with the number pre-printed on the ShareTapes. That way, your music mixtape will always be unique. You can of course go in and change the music whenever you want, which makes this whole approach even more versatile. The ShareTapes will retail for $6.99 AUD for 5 blank ShareTape cards.

The styling of the ShareTapes, which is the awesome look of a retro cassette, is of course another reason why these ShareTapes music mixtapes could possibly become a huge success. They could very well become the “next gen” music gift cards. The name alone, ShareTapes, gives some hints towards this. How successful this concept will be of course depends on how much we like putting together our own mixtapes. Do young people of today even know what those are? Well, if not, it’s about time it gets introduced into their lives. It was an awesome way to share music, and one that shouldn’t be lost just because the medium we stored them on got updated.

ShareTapes Music Mixtapes Startup

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Richard Darell

Richard Darell is the founder and CEO of Bit Rebels, a multifaceted online news outlet that reports daily on the latest developments in technology, social media, design and everything geek. Today this media entity welcomes more than 3.5 million unique visitors per month and is considered the go-to place for people in constant motion. As an Internet entrepreneur, he is dedicated to constantly trying to develop new ways to bring content faster and closer to the end user in a more streamlined way. His excitement for statistics has allowed him to further develop systems that continuously produce accurate and fast-paced analytics to better optimize the approach by which Bit Rebels presents news and content. His graphic design background has proven to be an important tool when designing new systems and features for Bit Rebels since the development of solid and stable code depends entirely on their structure and implemented procedures. Richard currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden and directs the Bit Rebels offices in both Stockholm and Atlanta. You can reach Richard at richard@bitrebels.com

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