![]() ![]() After racing to 360,000 users in its first three months, it vanished almost as quickly as it appeared, in what fans lamented as the end of a whirlwind chapter in online listening and what seemed like a sign that humans ultimately favored real-life social interaction around music to interacting online.Īs quarantine drags on with no clear end-date, the nostalgia for Turntable.fm may hint at what could be a new normal. Turntable was a website that let users hang out and DJ in virtual rooms, chatting as they took turns selecting music and listening to others’ choices. ![]() It seems almost quaint now, but to web-savvy music-lovers and the extremely online, Turntable.fm was the most exciting development of summer 2011 this side of WU LYF. "I am prepared for my virtual ambient dj set." ![]() "We need turntable.fm to return in these trying times," the reissue label Light in the Attic posted. I really wish turntable.fm was still a thing for us to enjoy as a remote workforce," wrote one production designer at Square. "My whole company has started working from home. The people once again wanted Turntable.fm. Scores of people suddenly longed to cram into a room packed with friends and strangers to bob their animated teddy-bear heads together to a cooperative playlist of surprises and favorite tracks-all without leaving their homes. But at the start of this apparent streaming surge earlier this Spring, flickers of a return to the early 2010s appeared-and not just in the return of a global financial crisis. ![]()
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