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At Radio Mixtape we let people create personal play lists out of promotional material and then share those play lists freely. And so far it has turned out that music labels are receptive. Our user base has grown to over 2,000 mixtapers already, and we have streamed music over 30,000 times now. It couldn't be easier, we even have the ability to swap mixtapes from a cell phone. 2007 really is shaping up to be the year of the end of DRM! -Jason

At Radio Mixtape we let people create personal play lists out of promotional material and then share those play lists freely. And so far it has turned out that music labels are receptive. Our user base has grown to over 2,000 mixtapers already, and we have streamed music over 30,000 times now. It couldn't be easier, we even have the ability to swap mixtapes from a cell phone. 2007 really is shaping up to be the year of the end of DRM! -Jason

Over at Radio Mixtape you can already share music for free (as non DRMed MP3 files), we even have a lot of bands that you already know (thanks to a deal with Sub Pop), and we are growing every day. In a few weeks we are going to announce a new service called mixbox.mobi where you can swap mix tapes from your cell phone, so you have music swapping, from a device that the hot girl is likly to actually have. -Jason

You know if you like the music sharing, but hate the DRM, there are other solutions. Check out Radio Mixtape. You can create play lists from full length MP3 audio files that artists designate (we even have Sub Pop's promotional catalog, something the Zune claims to come pre-loaded with). Mix tapes can be embedded in MySpace profiles as Flash Widgets, or Blogs as JavaScript widgets. Everything is free and information about downloads and sharing are provided back to the artist directly (and all "buy album" links are in direct control of the artists, some link to Amazon, some to thier own label others even to iTunes). It's free for artists and free for fans, and it works on absolutely every portable audio player. You don't need to sell your sole to Microsoft just to share good music. -Jason

You know if you like the music sharing, but hate the DRM, there are other solutions. Check out Radio Mixtape. You can create play lists from full length MP3 audio files that artists designate (we even have Sub Pop's promotional catalog, something the Zune claims to come pre-loaded with). Mix tapes can be embedded in MySpace profiles as Flash Widgets, or Blogs as JavaScript widgets. Everything is free and information about downloads and sharing are provided back to the artist directly (and all "buy album" links are in direct control of the artists, some link to Amazon, some to thier own label others even to iTunes). It's free for artists and free for fans, and it works on absolutely every portable audio player. You don't need to sell your sole to Microsoft just to share good music. -Jason

You know if you like the music sharing, but hate the DRM, there are other solutions. Check out Radio Mixtape. You can create play lists from full length MP3 audio files that artists designate (we even have Sub Pop's promotional catalog, something the Zune claims to come pre-loaded with). Mix tapes can be embedded in MySpace profiles as Flash Widgets, or Blogs as JavaScript widgets. Everything is free and information about downloads and sharing are provided back to the artist directly (and all "buy album" links are in direct control of the artists, some link to Amazon, some to thier own label others even to iTunes). It's free for artists and free for fans, and it works on absolutely every portable audio player. You don't need to sell your sole to Microsoft just to share good music. -Jason

You know if you like the music sharing, but hate the DRM, there are other solutions. Check out Radio Mixtape. You can create play lists from full length MP3 audio files that artists designate (we even have Sub Pop's promotional catalog, something the Zune claims to come pre-loaded with). Mix tapes can be embedded in MySpace profiles as Flash Widgets, or Blogs as JavaScript widgets. Everything is free and information about downloads and sharing are provided back to the artist directly (and all "buy album" links are in direct control of the artists, some link to Amazon, some to thier own label others even to iTunes). It's free for artists and free for fans, and it works on absolutely every portable audio player. You don't need to sell your sole to Microsoft just to share good music. -Jason

Radio Mixtape uses a Flash 6 applet that pulls down a XML document parses it and displays it information. I'd call that XML support, now if you meant XSLT or XPath support I might agree with you, anyone have experience with that one?
-Jason

At Radio Mixtape (disclaimer, this is one of my sites), we use both technologies. Our site is accessible in most modern browsers (even cell phones) for browsing, downloading, and sharing so a reliance on Ajax and Flash is out of the question. However for building a mixtape (why our site is useful to most of our users) we use a flash applet(is that the right word) to display the selected tracks (it's really cool, the tracks are drawn on a cassette jacket in a handwriting font) by an XML feed. This gives us font embedding, guaranteed placement, total control over the look and feel and even back button support. However when you want to reorder the tracks you selected you are taken to a page that uses a simple drag and drop Javascript library and makes XMLHTTPRequest calles to save the changes in track order every time you drop a song in a new position. For sites like Radio Mixtape is has to be a balance, not everything looks good or works right in JavaScript+CSS+HTML, and Flash can actually be overkill for simple things. -Jason

Radio Mix Tape is a new service that lets people make mix tapes, and swap them. Entirely out of the kind of free tracks that bands put on their website. And its starting to gain support from artists. Big ones too. On yeah and we now have fancy Blog Widgets (checkout this blog here
-Jason
P.S. Yes I own it, I made it, but we have a team working hard on our 1.0 version and I am extremely proud of it.