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Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses by badloginagain on Thursday February 11, 2016 @11:42AM (#11081214)
When Grooveshark shut down, I lost some fantastic artists. There was a low-distraction music station for programmers [writhem radio] I would listen to, which was gaining some popularity and would have music guests DJ their new stuff.

When Grooveshark died, that set of original music spun by the DJs was essentially lost- which sucked because that was my go-to for "work music". I've only started to find the tracks again, some on soundcloud, YouTube, etc.

Worst part is, the guys responsible for the music station, which was definitely growing, hasn't done much to start again. It's understandable, when you think of how difficult it is to grow a brand from nothing.

Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses by lucasmullens on Thursday February 11, 2016 @02:40PM (#11082591)
The guy behind Writhem Radio is building his own service: http://wiki.writhem.com/display/radio/WritheM+Radio+Home

He's jumped from platform to platform until he just decided to do it himself.

Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses by rubicon33 on Thursday February 11, 2016 @01:31PM (#11081948)
I had the same experience when Grooveshark shut down. It's weird. I didn't realize just how awesome their service was. On the face of it, the technology wasn't particularly novel.

It was the content that kept me coming back. Mostly the radio shows like WritheM and Electro Chill.

Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses by jordanlev on Thursday February 11, 2016 @03:37PM (#11083024)
This is certainly not a replacement for what you've lost, and I don't know if it's even the kind of music you're referring to... but you might be interested in: http://musicforprogramming.net/
Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses by toomanybeersies on Thursday February 11, 2016 @10:48PM (#11085165)
Writhem is still around. After Grooveshark, they moved to plug.dj, which then got shut down.

Now a couple of them are developing their own solution. I sorta stopped following them after a while, but you've reminded me to check their progress.

Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses by tshannon on Thursday February 11, 2016 @01:20PM (#11081855)
Yeah, I found so much new music from grooveshark broadcasts.
Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses by voltagex_ on Thursday February 11, 2016 @07:17PM (#11084441)
Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses by johnny_and1 on Thursday February 11, 2016 @05:26PM (#11083819)
Search for WritheM on Spotify. I was in the same boat until I got the playlist from their wiki and loaded it into Spotify.
Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses by badloginagain on Thursday February 11, 2016 @06:28PM (#11084159)
I haven't looked recently, but I was only specifically interested in their "BitMix's", where they'd bring in an up and coming artist to mix an hour long set together.