Re:What Killed Turntable.fm?
by rektide on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @07:39PM
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From the article: And that was Turntable’s fatal flaw ... the additional effort involved in using the service.
HAHA. Um, no. I use it while biking, while driving. You can join a channel and leave it at that.
Turntable isn't going anywhere because the social network designed to support it, the DJ's that were supposed to be showing up, injecting new life, have failed to deliver what was needed: interesting music selections that met diverse genre tastes.
Which, from an entirely different much larger societal dimension does fit with nirandfar's synopsis: it wasn't that individual users were overtaxed, it's that the service relies on it's social network to be keeping it fresh, yet the service was unable to promote sufficient diversity and to keep injecting different and better enough tunes to keep people coming back.
I'm largely back to smaller shoutcast stations these days, but I probably do a day and a half a week on average of Turntable.fm listening. The DJ'ing, imo, has gotten fairly routine, tends to hug some staple pop favorites, which can sometimes be mitigated with judicious channel flipping, and some times just feels terminal.
HAHA. Um, no. I use it while biking, while driving. You can join a channel and leave it at that.
Turntable isn't going anywhere because the social network designed to support it, the DJ's that were supposed to be showing up, injecting new life, have failed to deliver what was needed: interesting music selections that met diverse genre tastes.
Which, from an entirely different much larger societal dimension does fit with nirandfar's synopsis: it wasn't that individual users were overtaxed, it's that the service relies on it's social network to be keeping it fresh, yet the service was unable to promote sufficient diversity and to keep injecting different and better enough tunes to keep people coming back.
I'm largely back to smaller shoutcast stations these days, but I probably do a day and a half a week on average of Turntable.fm listening. The DJ'ing, imo, has gotten fairly routine, tends to hug some staple pop favorites, which can sometimes be mitigated with judicious channel flipping, and some times just feels terminal.