Mixer Cast - redux

Date August 23, 2007

Had to republish due to wierdness with new theme

An invite popped into my inbox the other day for MixerCast, so I went and played.

You have seen all of those slideshows all over Myspace and the social sites. Most are Photobucket junk that doesn’t play well with others, well neither does Myspace. This one does it a bit better.

[For those that don't know what I am talking about, read. Those that do, skip to the good stuff]

The whole deal with personal media players is that the social sites don’t have a lot of real estate for people to really post their junk. A few photos, videos and other stuff clogs up the screen. The personal media player solves that, right? Most of the time it only works if you stored your junk with them, see Photobucket. Some combine more stuff together but if you are like me you have photos, videos and other stuff elsewhere. But you don’t want to reimport the junk.

[Good stuff]

MixerCast lets you customize your player with your own stuff with licensed media from guest artist (muze music, gettyimages, pump audio, abc, etc) to form a nifty player in one of 18 templates. You can grab your stuff from intertubes at flickr, youtube, myspace and the aforementioned photobucket. Upload from your computer or record from your webcam rounds out the media input. It stores in a gallery so you can remix later. You get to do this all in either your browser, the Wizard, or a full screen deal called Designer.

I chose the Wizard. First you get the choice of size, standard, banner or panoramic. Going with the standard first, I choose the template.

Now to Add Media. You have your media library of stuff you have already drug in, the studio which has content from other real media companies, upload option, the internet with the four choices above and your handy webcam.

I grab a few from a bunch. Grabbing Flickr was simple, punch in the user name, choose the set. Uploading was same-o. The Studio was weird, my music never showed up. This is were they make money on the deal so maybe I had to buy it first or something. There is a buy button on the viewer later. Dunno. [Okay, I found the button at the top, it is seperate from the play button for the slideshow, hmm]

Sharing gives a few options. You can plug it into a few blog platforms, friendster and myspace. They give you the embed code, which I used down below. You can email with a Plaxo widget that gathers your email address from your preferred service. A bit of tagging for use with the MIxerCast community and blammo.

Screenshots I piled them on flickr for easy viewing.

Instant mixed media goodness for web pleasure.

Well, sort of. Never posted to my myspace. (That is okay. I hate myspace anyway. Damned HS friends. Move to Facebook.) The viewer still makes Myspace stupid slow. The Designer interface is big and has widgets but is slow and painful. I want to get my stuff from revver or other video sites.

But it moves in the right direction for this sort of thing. It is free. I like nifty, pro content to use legit. It was pretty easy to use and might use again for goof, light stuff. RSS can be used to update players with the latest content remotely. And according to TechCrunch the buy it button has got potential profit sharing goodness (affliate fees).

Check it out.

My trial MixerCast

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