Turntable.fm Hits 140,000 Users in Its First Month
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#2The music industry would be crazy to nix this. Imagine selling special tracks exclusively through turntable.fm, branding rooms for DJs and celebs, etc.
Shazam pushes $100 M. in purchases towards iTunes etc each year. Turntable could blow that away.
But the industry is going to see people uploading DRM free tunes and freak about not getting enough of a cut.
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#3This site is actually pretty cool. 5 different versions of the chicken dance. I appreciate that.
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#4I just tried to request site access ... kudos to these guys ... the request process itself was hilarious! Attention to detail ... that's where it's at.
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#5Turntable.fm is a lot of fun. I've been using it with offsite coworkers to create a sort of shared music space.
Unfortunately, it seems like only a matter of time before it gets shut down by the RIAA or riddled with enough advertising to make it sickening.
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#6The music industry would be crazy to nix this. Imagine selling special tracks exclusively through turntable.fm, branding rooms for DJs and celebs, etc. Shazam pushes $100 M. in purchases towards iTunes etc each year. Turntable could blow that away. But the industry is going to see people uploading DRM free tunes and freak about not getting enough of a cut.
That kind of vision doesn't exist in the music industry. They shut down Muxtape. They'll shut down this.
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#7This site is addictive. Love it.
Re: Turntable.fm Hits 140,000 Users in Its First Month
#8The music industry would be crazy to nix this. Imagine selling special tracks exclusively through turntable.fm, branding rooms for DJs and celebs, etc. Shazam pushes $100 M. in purchases towards iTunes etc each year. Turntable could blow that away. But the industry is going to see people uploading DRM free tunes and freak about not getting enough of a cut.
That kind of vision doesn't exist in the music industry. They shut down Muxtape. They'll shut down this.
And yet they have allowed 8track to exist.
The founders are hoping they can exist under the protections of DMCA streaming radio.
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#9I just tried to request site access ... kudos to these guys ... the request process itself was hilarious! Attention to detail ... that's where it's at.
I have a facebook account, and a friend who was a member, so my process was mostly just annoying. I guess they didn't want to deal too much with tracking referrals on their own end, so relegated the process to Facebook?
Re: Turntable.fm Hits 140,000 Users in Its First Month
#10The music industry would be crazy to nix this. Imagine selling special tracks exclusively through turntable.fm, branding rooms for DJs and celebs, etc. Shazam pushes $100 M. in purchases towards iTunes etc each year. Turntable could blow that away. But the industry is going to see people uploading DRM free tunes and freak about not getting enough of a cut.
That kind of vision doesn't exist in the music industry. They shut down Muxtape. They'll shut down this.
I wonder if anyone is working on an open source implementation that people could run on private servers. If it does get shut down, it would be nice if I could run this just for myself and my friends - really, it would be no different than inviting them to a party and turning on my radio. (Though, honestly, I'd wager someone has been sued for this.)