To everything there is a season – Why we're shutting down
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To everything there is a season – Why we're shutting down
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#2Sorry to hear 8tracks is shutting down, it was a cool app to hear new music back during their peak.
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#3> for regulatory reasons, credit cards could not be used to invest; and while SeedInvest, the platform we used to execute the round, was able to accept debit cards initially, our debit card processor decided, several weeks in, that it no longer wished to support crowdfunding initiatives.
Cautionary tale for equity-based crowdfunding. I'd love to read about some success stories.
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#4> in early 2016, we were required to cut off streaming to listeners outside the US and Canada
I didn't fully understand who it was that required 8tracks to stop streaming abroad, but I wholeheartedly hate them so much. It was my preferred music service, I loved discovering all sorts of playlists and new music, while I've always disliked the Spotify client.
To see it dissappear, probably due to greed from royalty owners somewhere, was a loss. Now it's all just random Youtube mixes, but it is not the same.
I also used some other site that tuned music according to a chosen "mood"... but cannot recall the name right now. Stereomood, maybe?
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#5“the company and its streaming service will wind down with the end of the decade, on December 31st, 2019”
Years started being numbered at 1 so the decade ends on December 31 2020.
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#6> in early 2016, we were required to cut off streaming to listeners outside the US and Canada I didn't fully understand who it was that required 8tracks to stop streaming abroad, but I wholeheartedly hate them so much. It was my preferred music service, I loved discovering all sorts of playlists and new music, while I've always disliked the Spotify client. To see it dissappear, probably due to greed from royalty owne…
A tragedy, these laws were created to promote art and nowadays are exclusively used to hide and destroy it.
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#7“the company and its streaming service will wind down with the end of the decade, on December 31st, 2019” Years started being numbered at 1 so the decade ends on December 31 2020.
Well that's a technicality. There's no reason to base practical realities of Jan 1 2020 being the start of the "2020s" with the fact that Year 0 was missing.
I recall a CNN article recently about this: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/21/us/when-does-the-decade-end-b...
> Those technicalities, however, don't change the fact that as a society, we seem to have collectively determined that decades begin in years ending in zero and end on years ending in nine.
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#8For someone that never used it, what was the appeal of this service? I took a look at the site and didn't really get it.
What does this have over Spotify?
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#9“the company and its streaming service will wind down with the end of the decade, on December 31st, 2019” Years started being numbered at 1 so the decade ends on December 31 2020.
That argument was lost 20 years ago next week I'm afraid
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#10“the company and its streaming service will wind down with the end of the decade, on December 31st, 2019” Years started being numbered at 1 so the decade ends on December 31 2020.
It's worth noting that ISO 8601:2004 actually defines 1BC as Year 0 – mostly to keep the leap years algorithm correct for negative years.
With a zero-based numbering system it makes sense to consider the decade to be ending in 3 days.