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“The party ended, but we all remember whose set it was.”
Turntable.fm was a social music site where users gathered in rooms to collaboratively stream music, with designated DJs picking songs for everyone while the crowd chatted along. Born as a pivot from the failed Stickybits at a small company led by Billy Chasen and Joseph Perla, it opened to the public in May 2011 and had 140,000 active users by late June. People loved it because it turned listening into a shared, live
The site relied on the DMCA for music licensing, which meant only U.S. users could join the party, and the service shut down in December 2013. It left behind the memory of rooms full of strangers arguing over song picks at 2 a.m., and a blueprint for every social listening room that came after.
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