Following either a hacker attack or some sort of misstep with its servers Wednesday, the free and simple mixtape sharing tool Muxtape suddenly adopted a one-track mind. Every song on the service was replaced by "Good Disease" by Aim with (Steven Jones), a Sade-like chill-out track.
Update (2:36 p.m. EST): It's still not clear what caused Muxtape to go down in the first place. But, due to a coding error, approximately 85 percent of the muxtapes created in the past three weeks will be lost as a result of the "Good Disease" takeover.
Muxtape creator Justin Oulette told Wired.com that a little coding typo heswore he fixed three weeks ago led to the lack of a full backup. Allmuxtapes created more than three weeks ago will be intact andshould be online later Thursday, he said. However, due to what Oulette calls "a perfect storm" in which both backup systems "failed in a particular way that screwed the other out of being useful," only about 15 percent of the mixes created during the past three weeks will be resurrected. It's a tough break, but hey, this could have been a lot worse. Besides, mixes are so easy to make on the site that it should make up for lost ground relatively quickly.
Oulette initially announced that he was pulling the site down until he could figure out what happened. At this point, it's unclear whether his site was hacked, or whether some sort of database accident caused "Good Disease" to overwrite every song.
The whole Muxtape song database was successfully backed upthree weeks ago. According to Oulette's most recentpost on the topic, only songs uploaded in the past three weeks withcustom titles would encounter issues as a result of "Good Disease":
However, due to the typo he mentions, Muxtape users may have to re-create their latest mixes.
If you're curious, here's the 2002 release thattemporarily took over Muxtape, from a defunct label called Grand Central Records:
this audio or video is no longer available"Good Disease" - (Ft Stephen Jones) - Aim
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