Talk:Mixtape

Rapidly getting out of date
Much of this article seems anachronistic, and sometimes even trying to push certain topics.

"The CD-R disc is currently the most common medium for homemade mixes" - really? Still? Most computers are sold without optical drives these days. Surely the USB stick is more dominant now.

I'm also suspicious of the entire "ctape" section. There's no wiki article for it and Googling for that term doesn't turn up anything about mixtapes.

--David G (talk) 00:44, 20 January 2016 (UTC)


 * I am also suspicious of the "ctape" section; the grammar and syntax was off, and Google couldn't provide any information about what a ctape even is. Should this section possibly be removed? BandW2011 (talk) 21:55, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

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Dubious
The statement in the article, that copyright owners have no recourse if infringing material is given away without profit, is simply not true (at least, not in the United States). Under US copyright law, the copyright owner can argue that their financial interests have been diminished by the very existence of the unauthorized copies. The law also recognizes that the infringer can receive non-financial benefit simply by using the material to advertise himself. Thus, copyright owners most certainly can take legal action against the infringer, and that action can result in the payment of damages to the copyright owner. The statement needs to be removed. NewYorkActuary (talk) 21:53, 16 February 2017 (UTC)


 * The statement in the article is definitely untrue. I'm removing it. Wendy Day and Deborah Mannis-Gardner discuss the issue in the following video for a couple of minutes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GtC6z7dRjE&t=4m33s . Wirty Inc. (talk) 21:30, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

beginnings of mix tapes
Mix tapes were popular in the 1970s. The article indicates that they didn't become popular until the 1980s, but that just isn't so. The earliest I remember mix tapes being all-over-the-place popular was 1978, but I grew up in a small town in North Carolina. I imagine the mix tape phenomena happened even earlier in places more attuned to music than my small town in NC was. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1004:B0B5:57E6:7C8B:97E:C7AD:BA (talk) 02:52, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Two Concepts in One Article
I see this article as trying to combine two rather distinct concepts that share only a name. Mixtapes in the original sense have been replaced by playlists, and I would honestly argue that that conception could be merged into that page, because that's really what people were trying to do for each other previously but when everything was on one format. Perhaps a note at the top with a redirect if one comes to the "Mixtape" entry looking for this former conception.

Personally, I would like significantly more information about the current and future uses of the concept of a mixtape, which mostly seems to be an album that an artist wants to classify differently for whatever reason. I'm very curious why no one seems to talk about mixtapes when they can sometimes represent more of the artist's output than traditional albums, like 12 mixtapes to 5 albums or something. Thanks. 130.45.43.153 (talk) 19:53, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I have long meant to split this article because of this. -Lopifalko (talk) 09:49, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I agree. I have tried a few times to find out just what artists mean now when they call one thing an "album" and another thing a "mixtape" and I can't find anything that explains it. It does seem to me to be that a mixtape is a mixtape just because the artist decided to call it that and not because of any other criteria. Also, Kendrick Lamar put out something he called an "EP" despite it having 14 tracks and being over an hour long. It seems like what something is and what artists decide to call it might not be the same thing at all anymore. 159.2.34.252 (talk) 19:23, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

SELF ESTEEM 102.88.36.96 (talk) 16:19, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

"Mixrecord" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mixrecord&redirect=no Mixrecord] has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached. Deauthorized. (talk) 21:21, 3 October 2023 (UTC)