The official 8tracks blog

We’re getting ready to sell 8tracks T-shirts. Does anyone have good/bad experience with a...

Jul 24th

We just fixed the cover upload issues, finally. Everything should work now and even be faster.

Jul 23rd

Yes! “Alternative & punk” is off the first page of our genre list (see prior tweet -...

Jul 22nd

Also: you can now upload from a URL

If you have images you’d like to use for mixart that are *already* on Flickr or similar, now...

Jul 21st

Check out hot new 8tracks profile pages! More info here: http://bit.ly/zWsai

Jul 21st

Hot new profile page

We just launched new profile pages.  Click on your own pic, or that of anyone you follow, to check...

Jul 20th

I’m looking fwd to getting “alternative & punk” as a genre off the first page....

Jul 15th

We apologize. Uploads have been failing since yesterday morning but we just fixed the issue and...

Jul 12th

A couple hours and all mixes should be playing fine, please be patient.

Jul 12th

“A total of 105,000 new full-length albums were released in 2008, a fourfold gain from the...

Jul 9th

The rules

While included in our Terms of Service and communicated in various applicable areas of the website,...

Jul 8th

Damn, browsing 8tracks using the Next mix button is fun (if I do say so myself).

Jul 8th

Check out our new “next mix” feature — a fresh mix automatically plays when a...

Jul 8th

Next mix

We just pushed what we think is an excellent new feature on 8tracks.  Look to the right of the...

Jul 8th

There’s a few problems on the site (e.g. missing Edit link) after this push. We’re...

Jul 8th

More on rate announcement (TechCrunch): http://bit.ly/CHUI6

Jul 8th

The site will be down for 15 min — beginning in the next ~10 min — while we push a cool...

Jul 8th

Good summary of the new webcasting royalties from Rags (one of our advisors & my former...

Jul 7th

Fantastic news! 8tracks & webcasting as an industry finally have a royalty that will support a...

Jul 7th