Text labels

You’ll find you have a few options on how to manage your cassette’s text labels when using the Mixmaker.

Tool Menu

Text Style allows you to manipulate:

• font color and size ( 9pt – 36pt )
• justification (left, center, and right)
• the background label color and transparency (alpha)

Description allows you to enter the title and creator info which are displayed when your cassette is first shown. Note: as soon as the cassette starts playing, title and creator are replaced by the song title and artist name.

Direct Editing

There’s a couple of less-obvious features for editing your text labels directly on the cassette. Click once and you’ll highlight the label. If highlighted, you can start to drag the label around. At the same time, you can choose to double-click the label, which will enable you to edit the text.

The text labels are far from complete. We’ve got several ideas on what needs to be improved, as well as additional features. But hopefully, you’ve got enough to work with for now. Have fun!

Welcome to (beta) everyone…

Hello all!

A funny thing happened in the last week or so. Since our public launch, we’ve gone from just a few people to over 4000 visitors per day. Even more amazing: you guys have already made 1000 2200 mixtapes.

We’re… stunned. Wow.

We haven’t done any promotion for Mixwit – it’s all been word-of-mouth, starting with a mention on TechCrunch, and spreading through a handfull of blogs. So we really, really want to say thank you to the folks who got the word out, with oddtodd.com being one of the biggest, as well as ehrensenf.de and allmyfaves.com. There’s also a couple of amazing sites with demo videos: demogirl.com (english) and Marcelino Madrigal (español). You guys seriously rock hard!

We’ll try to be proactive with the Mixwit blog and start posting more information on the changes we’ve done. Updates seem to go up everyday. Most are bug fixes, but we’ll be adding features too.

That’s it for today. Have fun! More stuff coming!