Fanmixes?

[starfishstar]

By the way, does anyone have any experience making fanmixes, for example on 8tracks or a similar site? (Do you have to be a member/subscribe in some way in order to use the website? Can you only use songs they already have in their collection, or can you upload anything?) I've long thought it would be fun to put together a mix of all the songs I use as the chapter header quotes in each chapter of "Be the Light in My Lantern," as a little fun extra for readers (and for me!), but it would need to be reeeeally simple for me to be able to work out how to do it...

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[nerakrose]

I make fan mixes on 8tracks! It's really simple. Sign up on the site (it's free), and start creating.

You can use songs already uploaded but you can also upload your own. Max. two songs per artist, though if the artist collabs with somebody then it counts as new.

My only issue is that sometimes songs aren't available in my country - one of the songs I uploaded on my r/s fan mix for my r/s games fic is now not available in my country so that song doesn't play, despite the fact I was the one to upload the song. Something about rights and stuff. *shrugs* it rarely happens. One of the songs on my regulus mix is also not playing and I can't figure out why.

8tracks has a minimum of 8 songs per mix, so you need to be able to put at least 8 songs in your mix. You can have wips, you don't have to publish a mix before you feel it's ready to be published.

[starfishstar]

OOH, this is extremely helpful, thank you! I'm definitely going to try it out, then. No problem about minimums or WIPs, seeing as it's one song per chapter of my already existing 40-chapter story...! And I'm hoping blocked songs won't be a problem, now that I'm no longer in Germany, where it was frequently a problem.

Thanks so much, this gives me the push to try it out and know that I'll probably actually be able to make it work.