Here's one with music from Britney Spears and Weezer. Here, for instance, is a mix that features jazz heavyweights like Miles Davis and John Coltrane. And while founder David Porter, a veteran of online radio service Live365, hasn't made a single deal with a music label, it's all totally legal. 8tracks lets you listen to digital mix tapes that you or anyone else has made, filled with any music you can think of, as long as someone has loaded it into the system. Cons: Maybe you'll get sued.īut our favorite new service has taken a smart middle ground. Pros: You get to give the people what they want. Just launch, build buzz and hope for the best. Don't bother cutting deals with anyone.Cons: Those deals incinerate cash, and once you've signed them you'll have a crippled service that won't appease carpers. Create a legal service by raising money and then lining up deals with the big music labels and publishers.Hopefully these issues will be fixed in future versions of the app.
8TRACKS SOMETHING FROM LISTEN LATER HOW ANDROID
You can set up Last.fm scrobbling on the 8tracks website, but it’s surprising that the app doesn’t scrobble songs based on whether you have the Last.fm app installed on your Android device (most music apps on Android do this by default). There is also no automatic scrobbling to Last.fm of songs that are played. These are probably legal limits which 8tracks can’t circumvent (similar to Pandora), but it’s not very clear to the user until they try to skip through songs.Īnother big drawback about the 8tracks app is that mixtapes cannot be created directly from the app. There is also a limit of skipping only three songs per hour regardless of how many mixtapes you play. You only have the option of skipping forward through a mixtape, so you can’t replay songs or move backwards to listen to other songs. The 8tracks app’s main feature is listening to other DJ’s mixtapes however, most mixtapes cut off abruptly after 30-60 seconds of no activity, forcing you to navigate back to the home screen of the app in order to resume playing (and even then, it skips to the next song in the mixtape). You also don’t have the option of changing the app’s home screen for the app to a different tab it seems odd to have a Home tab that’s not the actual home screen for the app. If you create your 8tracks account via the app, you have no way of editing your profile unless you visit the 8tracks website. I found that navigating between the app’s tabs took at least 5-10 seconds on a strong 4G connection (I’m using the Samsung Galaxy S II). The lack of settings for the 8tracks app is the first of many drawbacks. Just press the Take me to the music button and you’ll go directly to the app’s home screen. However, you don’t have to be an 8tracks DJ to enjoy the application. Pressing the green Sign up button allows you to register for an 8tracks account and logs you into using the app. Current 8tracks users (8tracks calls their users DJs) can enter their username or email along with their password, or you can log in using your Facebook account. On first run, the user is greeted with a standard login screen.
8TRACKS SOMETHING FROM LISTEN LATER HOW FREE
Recently, 8tracks released a free Android app for people to listen to mixtapes on the go. Users can create their own mixtapes using songs they upload or songs publicly available on SoundCloud, and then share those with the 8tracks community or with their friends. Unfortunately, cassettes have fallen out of popularity, but the concept of compiling your own mixtape is a truly modern creation that exists regardless of the medium.Ĩtracks is an Internet radio site which puts an interesting spin on this concept. The best mixtapes had a consistent theme, cool artwork, and no radio advertisements or awkward pauses between songs. When I was a teenager, I made mixtapes on cassettes using songs from the radio all the time.
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