Whoops, I failed to communicate. Take 2: It’s a mobile world and this might help us.

As you suggest, we’ve all had to find other solutions, and of course we shouldn’t invest precious dev cycles replacing desktop tools. I was merely suggesting existing functionality could be leveraged to enhance an activity many of us participate in, maybe even make it easier for new blood:

* A huge up-front cost of remixing is the time it takes to review and choose source.

* While auditioning samples to remix, it’s handy to save favorites to a scratch list.

* Every sample displayed on ccM already has an “Add to Playlist” function.

* If a playlist could be made private, it would be a very useful tool for this.

* You could easily to do the first listening pass on the bus with a smartphone or wherever.

=> Since they’re public, though, playlists are not suitable. Nor are recommends.

I use VLC, multiple tabs, bookmarks, you name it all the time. But I spend about half of a Secret Mixter period reviewing and sifting source, and this would make that easier and faster. My ccM screentime averages an hour or two per month, so it’s precious.

I did try this in the pre-Beta days and it worked a treat on my mobile but I found it all too easy to track activity. I had to obfuscate playlist names and then delete them and it wasn’t worth the hassle.

The current Beta view is another matter, and another set of feature requests. It makes playlist content so difficult to find that it’s probably no longer a serious exposure. I no longer use playlists on the site anyway, which may be why my attitudes are a little dated.

Take it or leave it, just a suggestion.