I was listening to some music, and I had a memory of chilling out to this website back in high school. I haven't been able to figure out what happened, or where it went. Their twitter profile has been inactive since 2015.
Is it gone for good? :(
Posted Jul 1, 2017, 9:50 PM UTC
Yes Stereomood worked quite well, but it has been discontinued.
Maybe you'd like Mentor.FM: since yesterday has a new feature called MentorMood which provides a similar service + personalization. For example https://mentor.fm/mood/Be_Happy plays a "happy" playlist, whose content is also personalized according to your music taste (you login with Facebook and you can add your Deezer and Last.FM profile). Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbMWFdST-8U a presentation video.
Thank you! I'll take a look into this, for sure.
I was one of the first members of the Stereomood team, AMA!
Hey! Are you still in contact with other members of the staff? What was it like watching the popularity rise? What ended up killing it off in the end? It's a real shame the service was discontinued. Helped me through some rough times, as well as with way too much free time. If you ever consider taking on a similar project again, I would probably end up using it. Thank you for making Stereomood a thing back then, though. It's been missed. :)
Yes and no, we ended up fighting a little bit but after all we clarified everything (I actually send an SMS to one of the founder to who I don't speak since then just 3 days ago!). It's pretty tough - or at least you can't take it for granted - when you develop something with your friends and then almost all of a sudden, you are in a company, dealing with shares, money, important decisions, etc...
But the 4 founders where amazing guys, with an incredible love for music (we are all Italian, BTW).
Watching the popularity rise... the 4 founders surely can tell better... from 0 to 1 million users in nothing (also reddit helped a lot), articles from Mashable, Forbes, The Atlantic... it was incredible, it makes us really believe we can make it, that you can make your dream come true...
BUT
We failed...
simply because we raised money but we didn't find a sustainable revenue stream. We ran out of money, easy as that.
I miss stereomood so much! I still have the app installed even if it is dead for years! Years are passing but there is nothing comparable!
There are a couple of playlists on soundcloud still: https://soundcloud.com/stereomood
I think I can speak for all of us, Stereomood will always be on our mind but we are pretty ok to have tried (we really struggled a lot!) and to have failed. I don't think there will be a revamp of the service anytime soon...
But who knows!
Thank you so much for this opportunity to go in the roller coaster.
Wow. Thank you! It's nice being able to finally have some closure. I'm listening to one of those playlists on Soundcloud, and hearing these songs I haven't heard in half a decade is really bringing me back. Nostalgia is a wonderful thing.
I'm glad to hear that you're still in contact with some of the other staff. It's important to never totally lose touch - you guys shared something, and while it may have failed, it did exist for a brief moment in time. And you guys will always have those memories, along with the few who look back and remember the service and smile.
Much like you, nothing has come quite like it since, and I keep the app installed as a memento. If you ever get the chance, please let them know for me that there are still people who remember. Music is timeless!
Just as I finish typing this, this song came on. I think it's pretty appropriate. https://soundcloud.com/matt-costa-music/good-times
Someone else bought the company and obviously hasn't done anything new with it.
Man, I miss that site though, I still listen to songs I found there.
Dang. Yeah, I still have a text file of all the songs I used to listen to. Sadly, I only copied the links, and have no way of finding out what the names were :/