

By combining some of the finest online music services, the folks at Favtape have concocted a lightening-fast online mixtape creation tool that creates sharable mixes of your favorite songs in under a second.

Assuming you already have a Last.fm or Pandora account (and really, who doesn't?), all you need to do is enter your user name or profile page URL for that service into Favtape, and it will retrieve 10 songs that you have bookmarked or favorited there into a mixtape that approximates the interface we saw earlier on Muxtape. Songs are delivered from SeeqPod's directory of online MP3s using SeeqPod's readily-available API, as pointed out by monkey_bites.

Ryan Sit of FreeStyle Labs told us that they made the service tosolve problems with some of the very sites upon which it relies. "It startedbecause it really sucks when you bookmark a song on Pandoraor 'Love' a song on Last.fm and can't play it on-demand later," he saidvia e-mail.

"Muxtapeis also really cool," Sit explained, "but you need to manually upload the MP3s, whichmakes it a drag to create a muxtape and update it." FavTape solves bothproblems by grabbing song URLs from SeeqPod to power anon-demand service that creates Muxtape-like web page mixtapes out of your Pandoraor Last.fm favorites.

For example, here's the mix it created from my Last.fm account.

monkey_bites observes that there's no way to reorder Favtape mixes, which is sort of a shame considering how long song sequencing has been a crucial aspect of mixtape making. But since the whole point of this service is to create mixes really quickly and easily, we'll give it a pass in that regard.

You can also listen to mixes on the site even without knowing their URLs in advance. A music discovery section

allows browsing of other users' Favtapes and lists the most popularones. Every mix listed in the discovery section includes afew sample songs, so you can see what you're in for before clicking.

Everysong on the site includes links to Amazon, iTunes, Flycell (a ringtoneservice), Lyricwiki, a Favtape artist page and similar artists.

All songs are available as direct, on-demand links, and an e-mail link sends them to your friends.

Try Favtape out for yourself (Pandora profile URL or Last.fm user name required) and feel free to post the URL of your mix as a comment below. It'd be nice to see what Listening Post readers are into these days.

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