Most of these sites allow you to listen to music you don’t own for free. Their business plans and profitability margins vary greatly, but the underlying truth is how we engage with music and how streaming is becoming more important than buying records. Apart from being great services, these products shed light on changing paradigms in the music industry. All are free, but not all are available in Canada - nor are they all legal. Together, these five online services attract a cumulative 64 million users to their websites and mobile applications. Want to know more about us? Head here.S ongza, 8tracks, Pandora, GrooveShark and Spotify are companies that encourage listeners to discover music in more relevant, cost-efficient and innovative ways. In no time, our stories got picked up by the likes of Forbes, Foxnews, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, Macrumors, and many others. PiunikaWeb started as purely an investigative tech journalism website with main focus on ‘breaking’ or ‘exclusive’ news.
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If you have any other alternative to suggest, feel free to share your opinion with others in the comments section below. But 80-90% of tracks in a given playlist should match, for most genres.Note that we can’t make any assurance as to how long the website may remain up and running, so please act now if you’d like to migrate your favorite playlists over to Spotify.īefore you begin the search for 8tracks alternatives, some of the service suggestions that have come across are Playmoss, Deezer, Libre.fm, Jamendo, Tidal, and others. This process isn’t perfect, as some tracks aren’t available on Spotify, and others are available but aren’t matched to Spotify’s catalog. In response, they’ll be provided the information about each of their playlists in the form of an email.Īpart from that, users also have an option to export their playlists to Spotify by choosing the option “ Save playlist to Spotify” that can be found on top of the mix art. And the steady decline in our free, ad-supported audience resulted in a smaller base of active listeners that might eventually be converted to 8tracks Plus, our ad-free subscription offering.īefore the closure of operation on December 31, users can save their existing 8tacks playlists, by pushing an email to the support, along with your 8tracks user name. But the reason we fell behind in royalties is because we steadily lost the scale of listenership necessary to sell advertising with a direct sales team at CPMs that would cover compulsory royalty rates with a solid margin. We’re nearly out of cash and can’t afford to pay current and past royalties, which we expected we’d be able to pay off in whole or in part through the ABC process mentioned above. Here’s how they explained their situation: Revealing the reason for closure, Porter shared the company is having a tough time to cover royalty payments due to their declining listenership, which eventually led to a declining free and ad-supported audience. We’re sad to announce, however, that the company and its streaming service will wind down with the end of the decade, on December 31st, 2019. The information was shared by co-founder David Porter, in the form of a blogpost, saying: That’s because, after serving for more than a decade, the Internet radio and playlist website has now declared it will be breathing its last breath this year, on December 31. This new year’s eve may not be welcomed well at least by users/fans of 8tracks.
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