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8tracks Is Shutting Down
- jsnell 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21894150 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21894150
- erickhill 7y agoActually my post was first. The one you link to was an hour after mine, so they were the dupe.
- nixpulvis 7y agoNobody seems to care that they aren't saving the music anymore, and that the songs they cherish today might disappear tomorrow. DRM encrypted music is a great evil, marketed as convenience. > "As technology has advanced, the atomic unit of consumption has shifted, from prepayment for consumption of all the songs in an album (the CD), to prepayment for use of a single song (the download), to pay-as-you-go for an individual song (the stream). With each step, the artist (and anyone who represents that artist, like a label) gets paid less and later; with each step, the listener gains more flexibility in paying for and consuming what they want, when they want it."
- lhoff 7y agoFor me, 8tracks always was a prime example of a great user experience without "AI", "Big Data" or "Algorithms" The user clicked on a few keywords and gets playlists which were tagged with these keywords. Worked better then spotifies automatically created playlists.
- mathattack 7y agoNo mention of the breech. That had to hurt too.