Making mix-CDs with MixPixie – hit or miss?

I think It’s a great idea, I bought a personalised Westlife CD for my daughter before Christmas. She cried with delight when she saw it. Not many presents do that, and for under £15 I thought it was brilliant.. Isn’t music meant to be personal? Ipods are great, but giving an itunes voucher as a present is a terrible cop out, this is fun and will have huge impact on the recipient, genius..

I’m part of the Ipod generation. Although I perhaps wouldn’t want one for myself, I’ve already put in an order for one for Mothers day as I know she’ll love it, especially for her car!

I disagree with the article where it says it’s ‘unbelievably cheesy’. The designs are in majority, really creative and aesthetically pleasing, and it’s up to the user how cheesy they make their messages!

I think this is a great idea – and three cheers for the geniuses who came up with the idea. It allows people to put something of their own creativity back into the stuff that they consume. If I got a nicely made mixed cd on feb 14th, I’d be thrilled.

Just had a look at this website…it’s actually quite cool…I like the design with the tapes on the cover, think my mum’ll like the cupcakes one. Might give it a go, seems quite easy to use.

Well, nothing beats the fact that you can touch and feel a gesture. Of course, this is not about buying just music, but about gifting it to a loved near and dear one. You have the ease of doing it anywhere, whenever you want, and also involves the thought of it, (personlisation,here is more than just a picture here..isn’t it, with music choices, the message) than sending a bunch of roses, and chocolates with a gift card. I’d give this a one up…

Yes, it’s pretty obvious the first few comments are from the company…

mixed thoughts on this, it’s a nice idea but not ground breaking, certrainly not ‘genious’ probably something for the older generation.

It’ll be interesting to see how long the novelty lasts.

I bought my Dad a personalised Westlife Greatest Hits for Christmas and he loved it. I think it’s a fab idea and I’m going to do one for a hen party

Yes, looks like someone’s alerted the MixPixie fan club to this article!

I think it could be a good idea for some people (i.e. people who still use CD players!) but I probably wouldn’t use it.

I’ve been given mix CDs in the past, and one of the things that makes them personal is that someone’s spent time slaving over them, and often drawing/making a personalised cover. Perhaps I’m just an old romantic but I think ticking things off a list on a website (although you’re making your own choices) seems to take away some of the personal aspect.

On top of that, I wouldn’t really know what to do with a CD these days – I only have one computer in the house that actually has a drive which will play CDs, so it’s far more limiting than a Spotify playlist. Not to mention the environmental impact of creating physical objects when the same thing can be done digitally far more efficiently.

Incidentally, mix CDs I’ve received in the past have now been re-created as Spotify playlists – they don’t lose any value by existing there instead of on a physical disk – the songs still have the same impact, and can be played on any device!

It sounds like a nice idea at first, but I probably won’t use it. I do use sites that create personalized greetings cards, but this one is different because they charge for each track. The problem with that is that you (or the recipient) most probably has already bought all the music they like. MixPixie would have been good if you could tick a box that said “I already own this track” so you are not charged for it (except, say, 5p to cover their cost of burning the track on the CD.)

And there’s a couple of other issues. First, music on a real CD is not compressed (and therefore suffers no loss in quality, except for the quantization errors of the 16-bit, 44 kHz sampling). However I suspect that the tracks recorded on the MixPixie CD originate from stored MP3s recorded with a certain amount of lossy compression.

And lastly, these recordable CDs have a shorter lifetime than mass-produced music CDs.

Great idea, shame the song selection is a bit rubbish. Yes, there are about 20 versions of Tina Turners Simply the Best – everything from a dance remix to a sax version. No sign of the original though. So far has been similar to this for every song i’ve searched for… Perhaps I am doing something wrong?