Internet radio stations with their own DJs are also competition. The company grew to 600,000 daily users, but it wound up getting sued in April by nine music companies. Project Playlist allowed users to build playlists and embed them on social networking pages.
#Submit your music to 8tracks radio license
Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, you don’t need a direct license from the labels if you are playing music like a radio station, where the listener can’t pick the next song to play. But it isn’t clear whether those are in the clear with the music labels and copyright law. There are other companies, such as Muxtape, that allow users to mix songs. He hired a mix of six developers and has six advisors. Porter started the company in the fall of 2006 and assembled a team by June 2007. The company is also working on an application for the iPhone. And at some point in the future, 8tracks will create widgets so that users can embed their mixes on MySpace pages, blogs or any other site. There will be audio ads and there will be a premium subscription option. It will add links to, which in turn kicks back a portion of the purchase price for any music purchased. The company hopes to make money through ads on the site. Creating lists is a simple matter of dragging “no frills” text from one side of the page to another. You can upload your own MP3 songs to the site’s library or choose songs that are already there. When that person creates a new mix, they share it with you. You can fill out your own profile and choose whom you want to follow. And on the right, you can see thumbnail pictures of all of your friends who share tracks with you. You can see which mixes are available for listening in the center of the page. The site’s user interface looks a little like the iPod’s interface for accessing music. Research suggests that people still discover music either through friends or the random mixes on the radio. “And for every 10 listeners, there is a DJ who creates lists.” “We feel there is integrity in a personal music mix,” Porter said. I can appreciate Porter’s thinking since I felt like a DJ myself in the good old days when I painstakingly recorded music mixes on cassette tapes. It gets back to the notion that the DJ is kind of an artist for putting together lists of songs that belong together. ( Update: Slacker says its genre stations are hand-crafted and song selections on custom stations are “influenced” by top human programmers). He thinks that the algorithmically-generated song lists of competitors (such as Last.fm, Slacker, and Pandora) can’t beat the “hand-crafted” mixes of music aficionados. Porter, who formerly worked as a general manager at live streaming radio company Live365, believes firmly that the personal recommendations of friends are the best way to discover music. They can rate the mixes, attach album artwork to them and learn who has similar tastes. They can also listen to mixes shared by others. Users can share mixes with each other, effectively becoming disc jockeys. The user can pick a minimum of eight songs and 8tracks will play it live, but in a random order. Since the average song is about four minutes, a half-hour mix is about eight tracks.
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