So… here’s my muxtape.

“Absolute genious. Compiled from the phishook forums. Let’s see how many you can figure out.”

Do all of this in 10 minutes:

“1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4. Tag it on flickr “CD Cover Meme”“

“1 Bit Audio Player is a very simple and lightweight Adobe Flash MP3 player with automatic JavaScript insertion. Its main purpose is to act as a quick in-page preview for audio files you link to from your website or blog. The player can be easily installed as a WordPress plugin or used stand-alone in any website. Small audio players will than automatically appear next to any MP3s you link to.”

“First of all, my disclaimer. Music is quite a personal thing. Everyone has their own favorites, what music helps them get through their workload. This article aims to contribute to your choices to possibly improve productivity through your music choices.”

“Search for music by singing or humming part of a song. All you need is a microphone.”

“This is the challenge: record an album in 28 days, just because you can. That’s 10 songs or 35 minutes of original material recorded during the month of February. Go ahead… put it to tape. It’s a little like National Novel Writing Month, (NaNoWriMo.org) where writers challenge each other to write 1,700 words a day for 30 days…”

“Critical Metrics takes a common-sense approach to recommendations: Critical Metrics measures critical mass. How do we do that? By tracking every rave review we can find! Our launch application is music. Dozens of highly recommended singles appear every day—Critical Metrics makes it effortless to find them, try them, and to buy your favorites. Critical Metrics aims to be the most precise critical resource anywhere, and we think our results speak for themselves.” (Thanks Magnetbox!)

“The era of the blockbuster is so over. The niche is now king, and the entertainment industry — from music to movies to TV — will never be the same.”

“Jazz has remained a very accessible art form partly because fans are educated by their own music collections. Albums employed text, photographs and graphic design to illustrate how a network of artists created a musical language together. Without the physical album, online music stores will play a much larger role in teaching new listeners about jazz. While institutions, educators and preservationists will soon face the same challenges, music stores will be the first to use digital interfaces to educate the listening public about jazz.”

50+ creepy, freaky, Halloweeny songs collected and mixed for your pleasure by Otis Fodder.

“We all remember last December’s grim news: MP3.com closed its doors, warning thousands of musicians that ‘all your content will be deleted from our servers.’ However, as the Wall Street Journal reports today, most of the original MP3.com archive was never deleted! Two companies, GarageBand and Trusonic, claiming to have a legitimate copy of the archive, are now enabling former MP3.com artists to visit www.MP3isBack.com and recover their MP3.com music, instantly re-generating their artist pages with just a few clicks.”

“This is the definitive guide to selling your music in the iTunes Music Store and earning income from music downloads. Finding out how to do this can be a painful and time-consuming process, but all the information you need is in this guide. Written primarily for existing (and fledgling) independent record labels, this guide will also be useful for producers, engineers, artists, managers, and attorneys who are handling band and label affairs. Covering the entire process from initially approaching Apple to encoding and submitting your music to the iTunes Music Store, it illustrates the major requirements for getting your music into the iTunes Music Store and shows you where the pitfalls are in the process.” ($20 + s/h)

“One strategy that major record companies have been employing lately to deter downloading is adding bonus computer content to new CD releases. I recently discovered that this technique is not unique to CDs, but had in fact been practiced in the vinyl era as well. That’s right: There were a handful of records released in the late 70s and early 80s that contained computer programs as part of the audio. This is totally insane, and totally great.”

“People are paying for songs on the iTunes Music Store because they think it’s a good way to support musicians. But by giving musicians just a few cents from each sale, iTunes destroys a huge opportunity. Instead of creating a system that gets virtually all of fans’ money directly to artists — finally possible with the internet — iTunes takes a big step backwards. Apple calls iTunes ‘revolutionary’ but really they’re just letting record companies force the same exploitive and unfair business model onto a new medium.”