{"id":85756,"date":"2020-01-03T18:11:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T12:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techworm.net\/?p=85756"},"modified":"2021-08-21T08:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T02:30:34","slug":"8tracks-music-best-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techworm.net\/2020\/01\/8tracks-music-best-alternatives.html","title":{"rendered":"8tracks shuts music streaming; 8 best alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Music is an integral part of life since the dawn of the modern era and transcends through cultures, borders, and so much more. Some listen to it to lift their mood, while many tunes in for a morning dose of sunshine to begin their day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listening to the curated playlist while going on and about with your work, assignments, homework has been a habit for many of us. While some resort to low-fi hip hop channels on YouTube, some of the others stay hooked to discovery on Spotify and Apple music. <\/span><\/p>\n

Music aficionados often curate playlist on their favorite music streaming website to stream the songs, symphonies they fancy and would tune into them whenever they would feel like. A Lot of these playlists are visible to the publicly available playlist. <\/span><\/p>\n

8tracks was exclusively about this before the mighty Spotify made their mobile listening free in 2013, followed later by YouTube Music, Apple Music, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is 8tracks?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

8tracks was a social-media website for curating, sharing, and streaming music playlist on the platform(Only for US and Canada since 2016) and through third-party music stream sites. <\/span><\/p>\n

Users could create a playlist of their favorite songs based on genre, mood, activity, or artist itself. Other users could play the songs of the playlist and follow them by adding them to the <\/span>collection.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Listeners from the US and Canada could directly stream from the site, 2016 onwards while others could use third-party music streaming sites like Spotify, YouTube for listening to the songs from a playlist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why is 8tracks shutting down?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

To quote the founder, they<\/span> ran out of funds<\/span><\/a> to carry on the operations forward. It started going down-hill just after they rejected Google\u2019s acquisition offer, which the Big G aimed at expanding their social quotient in Google Music. <\/span><\/p>\n

In 2013, Spotify made their mobile access free for all users which started eating 8track\u2019s visitors away, and their investors (Round A) backed out, leaving them high and dry when they needed the financial cushion the most.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Later in 2016, firing off half the staff and collaboration with Soundcloud did help 8tracks stay afloat until the revenues and listeners count kept falling short. It started happening month after month and eventually reaching this point in time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Backup Your Playlist Now – Here is How<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The 8tracks app for Android and iOS has stopped working for users. Apps are not available to be downloaded from the app stores of Apple and Google Play.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

8tracks platform is still live for a brief period to allow its users to create a backup of their favorite playlist. <\/span>Spotify users can directly save the playlist to their library by clicking on the\u00a0<\/span>Save Playlist to Spotify\u00a0<\/span><\/em>button on the playlist page.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can backup your favorite playlists also via the website by heading over to the playlist. Scroll down to the <\/span>notes\u00a0<\/span><\/em>section, click on the button which says\u00a0<\/span>Download Tracklist<\/span><\/em>. It will download the names of the songs in the playlist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Best 8tracks Alternatives<\/strong><\/h2>\n

1. Spotify Playlists<\/span><\/h3>\n

Spotify has become synonymous with music on the Internet. With over 250 million users from 80 plus countries, it has over 3 billion user-curated playlists, containing selected songs from the 50 plus million song collection on the platform.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Also Read- Best Spotify Alternatives<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Users can create, edit, and share playlists with friends on any social media platform by sharing links of the playlist. The playlists can be added to your collection by <\/span>liking<\/span><\/i> the list which will add it to your library<\/span><\/p>\n

What I liked\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n