Name that fluffertraX at fluffertraX.com by playing the new online porn music trivia game. If you can name the tune in 10 seconds, you can win.
Of course, that's 10 seconds worth of a particular porn film or video soundtrack, where you then have to match it to the film or video title. "Adult film titles provide plenty of entertaining multiple choices for each round," a fluffertraX spokesman said.
"After each round, players receive a brief lesson in porn music and see more details about the score and related movie, such as the movie poster, director, composer, and date,” according to a prepared statement. “And, every game is different thanks to fluffertraX’s dynamic P.O.R.N. music game engine. When you play, the game randomly selects a plethora of titles and soundtracks, generates random rounds from this data, and downloads the music and movie poster files on the fly. This makes each game unique and also makes it very easy to amass a large database of porn soundtrack possibilities."
“I could not have produced this game without the ease and compact portability of using Flash MX,” said fluffertraX's John Dial. “I can’t wait to play it on a cell phone. Plus open-source tools like the ActionScript XPATH project helped me realize the vision of creating a totally fluid game engine based on XML."
The game is part of Dial's ultimate goal of taking porn music mainstream by way Internet radio. “Internet radio should result in a renaissance of broadcasting where niche genres flourish,” he said. “At least that's my pipe dream. I'd like fluffertraX to grow to a point where I could spend more serious time on it, giving me excuses to attend ridiculous events in Las Vegas. For now, I’m just happy to see where this adventure takes me.”
On the other hand, mainstream might yet blush when it figures out what longtime porn mavens might recognize: the root of fluffertraX's name. Dial named the online broadcaster after the inside-the-studios term for those folks with one of the most demanding – and still sometimes obscure – jobs in adult filmmaking: They get the male leads “heated up” for on-camera action in certain critical scenes.
Name That FluffertraX "is just another way for folks to have fun with" the increasingly popular Internet radio show, said Dial, who conceived it while at a college radio station in Austin in the late 1980s. “I program a play list of songs like I would for a normal radio show. It's just a little more automated. I convert the music into an MP3 digital format, then I upload the MP3 files to various servers and broadcast away.”
One reason fluffertraX has avoided controversy so far: a lack of porn images, language, or hardcore sounds. Dial has labored to keep the project as wholly about the music as he can keep it, sometimes calling the site porn karaoke. "[A] couple can turn on the station and make up the script for their own adult film," he said.
fluffertraX is also a legal station. This isn't Napster or Kazaa, Dial said – you can't download the music fluffertraX plays, and Dial follows the Digital Millenium Copyright Act strictly. His station also pays ASCAP musician royalties. He can broadcast only a certain number of songs per CD, he said – but he's not exactly hurting for music with a library of more than 50 adult soundtracks.
The station runs on three streams, with Live365.com hosting both high- and low-bandwidth versions. iMNetworks' SonicBox tuner is used for wireless Internet radio on station R02.
For more information, visit fluffertraX.com.
