Dragontape lets you create and listen to YouTube-based mixtapes

At first, I thought that Dragontape had something to do with dragons, but sadly, it doesn't. It's more along the lines of "drag on tape," which means that you get a long, long timeline (or "tape") and you drag YouTube videos onto it.

The goal is to create a playlist, such as this staff pick playlist featuring street music. A playlist can be up to three hours long, which is a tad extreme if you ask me, but I guess some people could use the room for self-expression.

This write-up cannot possibly do Dragontape justice, because the interface has to be seen. Through the magic of advanced JavaScript, the timeline interface floats over the currently playing video with a low-fi scan line effect, and it looks very slick.

This beautiful presentation made me curious enough to rummage through the sources (mainly because I wanted to see if it was all Flash), and I discovered that they use Yahoo's YUI JavaScript Library. This has to be one of the most creative implementations I've seen yet, and it's well worth checking out if you like music videos (or just music).

After the jump, you can find a short demo video by Dragontape.

Tags: dragontape, mix tape, MixTape, music, video, youtube