About
8tracks is handcrafted internet radio. It offers a simple way for people to share and discover music through an online mix, a short playlist containing at least 8 tracks.
Product
On 8tracks, people can do two things: listen to a mix, or create a mix. Listeners can search for a mix by artist or genre, stream it in a legal, radio-style manner, and follow others who make compelling mixes. DJs upload MP3s or AACs to craft a playlist, add context with description and art, and publish their mix on 8tracks.com and a personal webpage.
Vision
8tracks believes handcrafted music programming trumps algorithms. Think radio in the 1970s, mixtapes in the 1980s, and DJ culture of the 1990s through today. DJs share their talent in taste making, providing exposure for artists. Listeners get a unique blend of word-of-mouth sharing and radio programming — long the trusted means for music discovery — on a global scale.
Team
8tracks was founded in 2006 by David Porter and launched on 8/8/08 by a small team working nights and weekends in New York, California, and France.
Press
TIME names 8tracks the best website of 2011
When it comes to finding new music, 8tracks has long been one of the cooler methods
8tracks has slowly and steadily emerged as the industry's reigning Internet mixtape startup
8tracks takes a fun approach to creating custom mixes with the idea being that user-crafted music programming is more entertaining than algorithm-generated lists
Playlists could be free music's killer app
Remember the old mixtape days where you would draw a picture or write a witty note inside? It's gone digital.
8tracks can take the human intelligence that is contained in all of those playlists and do something interesting
— Fred Wilson (A VC)
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