How long has turntable.fm been around

Details on when this might open to the public are also sparse. Meanwhile, one of the original founding team members Joseph Perla announced in February that he was bringing the service back as Turntable. Perla's version will be mobile-first and appears to involve a subscription payment model.

Perla is also working with Simon Oxley, founding designer of Turntable. While the original version relied on YouTube videos to provide music, Turntable. Clearly, this version needs to work out how to work with the music industry if it's planning to enable that, and in its press release the company wrote that it plans to "develop a breakthrough use case and business model that works for both artists and fans.

A sound business model is vital to ensuring either version of the revived Turntable will stick around. Those who supported will receive various perks like discounted subscriptions at launch, early access, downloadable avatars, special badges and more. It's why music streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, and Tidal make it so easy to create and share playlists. You can put together a mixtape within minutes and share it with your loved ones.

The return of Turntable. It seems the site is working on integration with SoundCloud, which means you can get your music into the ears of people who might not have discovered it otherwise. Finally, Turntable. Equally, Turntable. This isn't another company or team trying to capitalize on the good intentions of the brand name. That gives people hope that this second coming of Turntable.

It's great to see Turntable. The more choice the merrier, since competition inspires innovation. It's been away for a long time and many other websites and apps, like Vertigo and JQBX, have cropped up in the interim. Listening to music with friends is awesome. But what if they live far away? Details of how you do so are over at Turntable. First, lets explain the old Turntable. The concept was simple. Besides what we have explained above, any user can create their own virtual event space, and they are the "DJ", meaning they are in control of the music in that room.

The "audience" in the room were other users, and they could enter any room they wanted to. The site represented each room on screen in a cartoony form, with every single user having their own similarly stylized cartoon avatar. So, the new Turntable. Well, according to The Verge which has seen the site , you still have virtual room creation. You can also select from a few pre-loaded tracks, and there is reportedly some sort of integration with SoundCloud too. This may be how Turntable.

The new Turntable. Yep, in a confusing twist, we also have a Turntable. Not only that, but a former Turntable.