Popular fanmix and fan soundtrack website 8tracks recently announced that it will be shutting down on December 31, 2019. While the site might be available after this date, there’s no guarantee it will stay up - so if you’re a fanmix or fan soundtrack creator (or have created any type of playlist on 8tracks), now is a very good time to save the data from your playlists or make them available on another site.
What can I do to save my playlists?
If you’ve used 8tracks at any point, the site will be sending you an email with the playlist name, art, description and track list from your playlist(s), to help you recreate it/them on another site. It’s a good idea to make sure that you can still access the email address you used to sign up to 8tracks.
You can also use the Download Tracklist button in the notes of any playlist to copy all of the information from that playlist, and the “Save playlist to Spotify” button on top of the mix art to save a playlist to Spotify. Note that some of the tracks may be unavailable or not matched to Spotify’s catalog, particularly if they are older songs. Please also be aware that if you are saving someone else’s playlist, the playlist will not be attributed to the correct author when saving to Spotify - it will be saved under your name.
Other sites that can be used to create and share playlists of songs include Playmoss (a popular alternative to 8tracks) and YouTube.
Archiving links to fanmixes and fan soundtracks
Another very important thing to do is to use the Wayback Machine to archive the links to your favourite fanmixes and fan soundtracks. This can be done even if you don’t want to or aren’t able to republish the mix on another site. To do this, enter the URL of the mix in the box next to “Browse History” and select the button to see if it’s already archived. If not, you can select “Save this url in the Wayback Machine” to add it to the archive.
Be aware that saving playlists in the Wayback Machine will preserve the creator’s name, the description and the cover art, but not the track list - this can only be saved by downloading the text file.
Link your playlists on Fanlore!
Have you made a fanmix or fan soundtrack that you’re really proud of? Do you want other fans to be able to enjoy the links to your favourite mixes and soundtracks? Please add the links to Fanlore!
You can do this by finding the page for the fandom, ship, character, trope, fic, etc. that you made the mix for and adding it as an example fanwork. Anyone who has an account on Fanlore can edit the wiki - and it’s completely free! Follow this link to sign up to Fanlore, and check out our New Visitor Portal to find out how to get started with editing.
Some examples of Fanlore pages that feature playlists and mixes:
Try not to submit more than 250 at a time. Try not to send too many from at one time. Be patient as it may take up to a day to get a response
The Wayback Machine will give you a report back by email. In that report it will show which URLs failed. You must resubmit them manually.
To check the archive status of a website: Go to http://web.archive.org/ and run the URL through their search box. If you see a ‘calendar’ page - that means the page was submitted to the Wayback Machine. A Blue circle = successful. A Green or any other color may not be successful (click to find out what the WayBack Machine saved).
Playlist
The list of songs is harder to access. Currently you can only download the txt file with the song title/artist names manually, one by one. (There is a Spotify import method as mentioned above)
However, VidderKidder has a script that can download the playlist in this format. https://8tracks.com/mixes/8134992/tracks_for_international.jsonh It may be hard to read, but there are tools we can use later to extract the playlist info. The script can also download comments (again is the same format).
The advantage of VidderKidder’s script is that all fans need to supply is a list of 8Track URLs they want saved - which means we can save more, faster. If you need help saving a lot of playlists, email the list of URLs to [email protected] Please put the word 8Tracks in your subject line.
1.lighthouse – lucy spraggan// 2.mt. washington – local natives// 3.missing you – all time low// 4.something good – alt-j// 5.jenny (dead pixel remix) – studio killers// 6.to all of you – syd matters// 7.best song ever – gabrielle aplin// 8.santa monica dream – angus & julia stone// 9.get lucky – naughty boy (ft. tanika)// 10.obstacles – syd matters
they shoot huckleberries, don’t they? | a female!geralt / female!jaskier mix
[spotify ] - there are additional tracks in the playlist… i just couldn’t be bothered to type them all.
thanks to ao3 i am now criminally obsessed with genderbent witcher fic, but tbf these pieces of music also work for a more canon geralt and jaskier rolling about the countryside.
[ shameless self promotion but the fic i’m writing to this mix is here]
bring on the evening hours||a sussex downs playlist
The hours have grown long and the days grow late, and the country calls. The time has come to leave the hectic city behind, to set aside the trappings of two lives well and truly lived to settle into the quiet evenings of forever. And perhaps, for a little while, among the bees and flowers there is some peace to be found at last in these ever-fleeing numbered days.
Hey, it's buttons-for-bambi / hwu-bambi, aka Bambi (can’t remember if I put my nickname or real name sry), and here’s my gift for leah-khaleesi, aka Leah! It’s an MCxCrash fanfic and playlist, boop.
Lil message: Hi Leah! It was really fun being your PB Secret Santa and sending you messages and working on your gift. You seem like such a positive and awesome person, not to mention your great taste in musicals :) I hope you like the fic (kind of a ‘what-if’ if your MC did the stunt during Clash at Sunset rather than Addison) and playlist. Happy Holidays!
The after party for the premiere of Clash at Sunset is full of loud music, loud people, and the loud pounding of Crash’s heart. It fills his ears as he searches the crowd for a particular head of pink hair, chewing his lip in uncharacteristic nervousness. Really, he’s just going to talk to her; why are his legs shaking and his leather jacket suddenly too warm?
He runs a hand through his hair once more, wondering in the back of his mind if he should have brushed it. Looking around now and bumping into so many Hollywood people, Crash is reminded of just how out of place he tends to look at these functions. Not that he’s ever been invited to one (although he has crashed several, literally). It’s never bothered him before, but then he sees the actress he’s looking for and his heart stops because she fits perfectly into the picture.
Katherine laughs at something a director says, and with a drink in hand and the nicest dress that Crash has ever seen, she looks miles above him, like a star come down to grace the worthy of her presence.
He’s not used to seeing her like this; he’s used to his Katherine, chatting and laughing with him, rolling her eyes, and just generally warm and inviting. Now, though, she’s an image of class and sophistication, and he’s feeling underdressed and unprepared.
Just go up to her like you always do, the stuntman thinks to himself, gulping down the last of his nerves from seemingly nowhere as he takes a step forward, usual lopsided and dimpled smile back in place. What’s so different about this time?
But what’s so different is that she’s surrounded by people who look more like the type of people she might want to schmooze, and it’s made clear the second she gets pulled away by another group of actors who want her to come dance with them. I’m a great dancer, no problem, Crash reassures himself, but he can’t bring his feet to move because she’s gone from sight once more, swallowed up by the crowd, the most wanted person tonight.
He frowns, not sure why he’s upset, but there’s no denying the strange feeling bubbling in his chest, so he decides maybe some fresh air will do some good. A path manages to clear up, and he exits the building. The nerves are back and making him jumpy, though, and so he hops onto a ledge jutting out from the building, and his instincts take over as he climbs up to the roof, swinging his leg over and taking a seat, leaning against the brick wall, looking at the empty rooftop.
Why am I so nervous around her? he wonders, switching his gaze to the night sky above him, And why does her being popular bother me?
“Crash?” He looks over to the source of the noise as a door opens, revealing a pink-haired girl looking a little out of breath (the stairs behind her are a reasonable explanation) as she steps out onto the rooftop.
“Katherine?” he chirps, straightening and feeling his heart thudding in his ears once more as he blurts, “What are you doing up here? Shouldn’t you be at the party?”
“I should be asking you the same.” She smirks as she walks towards him, stopping at his side to take off her heels and slide down to join him on the ground, inches away from his side and the warmth that he feels building once more at the sight of her. “After all, you were part of Clash at Sunset, too.” After a pause, she turns to look at the boy, shifting ever closer as she asks with a frown, “Was something wrong?”
Crash shakes his head, swallowing the realization of how close she is along with the lump in his throat. It’s suddenly not so easy to ignore the nerves shaking his hands, and it’s becoming clearer as to why. But Katherine is so… “Amazing.”
“Hm?” she hums, and he realizes that he’s managed to whisper it out loud as he looks into her eyes.
He whips his head away, feeling wonderful pink warmth spreading across his cheeks; the night air is never going to cool him at this rate. “I was just wondering how you knew where to find me,” he responds a little too quickly, stealing a glance back at her, only to realize she’s smiling and it makes everything a little better.
Katherine winks, leaning back (and now he wishes she was still too close to him) as she explains, “I saw you leave out the front, but I was kind of hoping you didn’t just leave, and this was my best guess.”
He nods, and they sit in silence for a minute, the air heavy with something unfamiliar to Crash. There’s a crackle in the air, as if electricity might spark him at any moment, and he feels a rush travel through him, as though he’s about to do a stunt, when in reality he’s only sitting. But he’s sitting next to Katherine, and she makes all the difference. She looks over at him, concern coating her features but unable to hide the bright twinkle in her eyes that only seems to appear when the stuntman is around.
“Why are you up here, Crash?”
A fidget later and a look into her eyes later and he’s hit with two realizations: he undoubtedly has a crush on the movie star, and he has no idea what to do about it. Give him a fight scene and he can choreograph and rehearse it in minutes; give him a rappel system and the side of the mountain and he’ll be going down in seconds; give him a cute, pink-haired girl sitting close to him alone and all he can do is feel his tongue take up his mouth and his pulse take over his brain.
“I don’t –“ But he cuts himself off, because he doesn’t know where he’s going with any of this, and looking at her only makes him more tongue-tied. He looks back out over the rooftop, keeping his eyes down as he says slowly, “You looked busy. And this isn’t my type of party, usually.”
“That hasn’t stopped you before,” she points out with a smirk, laughing lightly as she remembers, “I mean, we still haven’t figured out how you managed to land a helicopter on the quad for the dinner party.”
“Yeah, that was fun,” he grins, and it only grows when she laughs again. But then he’s back to frowning as he explains, “This time – I don’t know – I feel like I can’t mess things up for you. And you have a lot of important people who want to talk to you.” People who aren’t me.
She catches on to the secret between the lines, eyes lighting up and lips parting as she whispers in near-disbelief, “Crash, are…are you jealous?”
He avoids her eyes, stomach twisting into knots once more. That’s the word for it, then, and he can’t help it; Katherine has a lot of people who want her attention, and he feels like just one of them. He wants to be the first person she spots and the last person she would ever leave, but he can’t say that, not when he feels his mouth go dry.
But he doesn’t need to say a thing as she watches him, before a smile tugs at her lips and she lets her eyes go to the sky and she places a hand over his, reveling in the warmth of his presence. “You really don’t have to be,” she tells him softly, looking over at him and seeing his wide eyes at their intertwined fingers, and she nearly lets out a giggle at his incredulous face. “Not when I like you so much.”
And all he can do is nod and give her a goofy smile and try not to combust as they sit in silence, alone, holding hands. Maybe he can’t work up the nerve to say everything he wants to tonight, but just being here with her is more than he could ever ask for.
Songs I’ve been listening to that remind me of Buck and Eddie from the show 9-1-1. A more upbeat playlist made for driving in your car with the windows down. Enjoy!
ive got one more playlist for @stanuary!! this one falls under past but really i just wanted like 4 hours of stan pines road tunes. we got outlaw country, we got americana and blues, we got dad rock, we got like an hour of jim croce. hope u like it! (shuffle recommended)
oh hi! while we’re all obsessing of Our Flag Means Death I thought I’d share a playlist I just made. Lots of bangers from the show plus some homoerotic shanties for good measure. ciao!
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