Roadtrip Mixtape: An experimental app that compiles location-based playlists for your journey

Just this week Spotify revealed it was expanding its Web API, with data from its recent acquisition of The Echo Nest taking a leading role. With that in mind, an interesting little nugget has come to fruition courtesy of music technologist Paul Lamere and the tight-integration between the aforementioned companies. With a little bit of Google Maps thrown in for good measure. Roadtrip Mixtape is a Web app for, well, roadtrips. You enter a starting point, finishing point and hit ‘Play Mixtape’. It’ll then play artists who hail from the places throughout the various legs of your journey, and you...



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