Always sad to see startups struggle, however turntable.fm seemed like a company that didn't have the best survival chances from the beginning. IMO as a company,

Always sad to see startups struggle, however turntable.fm seemed like a company that didn't have the best survival chances from the beginning. IMO as a company, it offers to little to justify its existence in the highly competitive marketplace that is online music. It's a cool gimmick, or product at best that could potentially be of greater value if it would be 1) part of a larger eco system (spotify, itunes, etc) or 2) as an experimental, self-sustaining through ad revenue, side project perhaps. I also might not be part of the core target audience for turntable.fm but my experience (and the people I know who've used it around me) is that after trying it a couple of times the coolness-factor wears off pretty quickly.