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When Pacemaker.net launched a year and a half ago, it was a community where Pacemaker device users could share their mixes. Since then, it has grown into what’s looking more and more like an embryo to a sort of YouTube for music mixes. A place where users listen to or upload, store and share mixes – or use as a platform when embedding mixes on their blogs, MySpace or Facebook pages.
Most of our users today don’t have a Pacemaker. A lot of them use the Pacemaker editor, but more and more are just dj:s or music lovers who want to share their mixes with others and choose to do so on Pacemaker.net because of the functionality the site and the player offers.
This led to a realisation: We were growing out of our costume. So, a couple of months ago, we started building a new website. The guidelines were simple:

Simply, we wanted a site that’s all about mixing music.
To make that point, we’re calling the new site Let’s mix. It will go live in a month or so. Let’s mix contains all the music, data and functionality that’s currently on Pacemaker, but in a more user friendly environment. And our free mix software, the Editor, is there in an updated version too. See below for early screen shots and comments from our developers.
First, the Let's mix front page. Alfred, our able art director, says: "With Let’s mix, we have tried to build more of an application than a site. On your left in the screenshot below, you will find a bar with quick links to your library of mixes. At the bottom you’ll always have access to the mix player that seamlessly continues to play while you surf around, finding new music."
"Throughout, Let's mix is designed around the two primary scenarios of finding and sharing music. Find music and Share music have their own start pages, accessible via the top menu, and their own tools, which you access through different toolboxes. They also have different colour representations, cyan and magenta respectively. Then there's my favourite colour, green. Green represents your Home page, which we'll come to next."

Above is a screenshot of the Home section of Let's mix. Håkan, formidable front end developer and project manager, comments: "On your home page – or dashboard as we call it here in the Let’s mix office – you can add and remove toolboxes to make it suit your needs and preferences. Want to make it the ultimate listening interface? No problem. Keep track of your stats and mixes? Piece of cake. Also, lots of more tools are in the making and will be added over time."

Håkan has this to say about the Find music page: "With the new player you can either have it playing in the footer while surfing Let's mix or, if you want to leave, detach it to a standalone player window. We have also added a play queue function where you can add all the mixes you want to listen to in a continuous flow."

Alfred on the Share music page, pictured in the screenshot above: "A dedicated share module allows for easy sharing to the most common social networks and e-mail. For mix makers and promoters we have built some statistics boxes which let you follow the performance of your mixes. This is an area where you can expect a lot to happen in the coming months as we release new modules and tools."