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Rapidly getting out of date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 Mixtapes in the original sense have been replaced by playlists, and I would honestly argue that that conception could be merged into that page, because that's really what people were trying to do for each other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

File:Information.svg The redirect 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 Template:Slink until a consensus is reached. Deauthorized. ^(talk) 21:21, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Complete overhaul of the page

I've added lots new information to this wikipedia article about mixtapes. However, I still need help verifying the information during the mixtape era. Almost all of the article's stuff in the 1980s has no proper citation. Help would be great in verifying the information of some of these! BlondArkhangel (talk) 06:37, 30 October 2024 (UTC) Talk:Mixtape/GA1

Mixtapes being inconsistently referred to as albums by reputable media outlets

"Mixtapes also have been inconsistently referred to as albums by reputable media outlets such as Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and Complex. This has caused notable confusion on the differences between an album and a mixtape."

Hi I am going to edit this part of the article out for now. The reason is that the citations are not to articles about reputable media outlets inconsistently referring to albums but to perhaps instances of this happening. This is different. I think we'd need to have an article about this happening as a source, not it happening as a source. The subsequent line "This has caused notable confusion on the differences between an album and a mixtape." does not refer to how "reputable media outlets" being inconsistent lead to the confusion. Instead they are articles about how there is confusion between the two and they are attempts to describe their differences.

From my cursory look at examples, dictionary.com in an article on the difference between album and mixtape that "That being said, the line between an album and a mixtape can be blurry" The definition in Merriam Webster says "an album that is usually recorded and distributed without the involvement of a record label"

It makes sense that Merriam-Webster is lagging behind a bit, but in my mind the usage and the intention matter but we should have a definition from somewhere to explain the two. Some sources want to distinguish that album and mixtape are different, whereas some are saying mixtape is a type of album. https://www.dictionary.com/e/mixtape-vs-album/ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mixtape Hockeydogpizzapup (talk) 21:23, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

Mixtapes also have been inconsistently referred to as albums by reputable media outlets such as Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and Complex. This has caused notable confusion on the differences between an album and a mixtape.