8Tracks

8tracks was a San Francisco-based internet radio and social music-streaming service that let people create and share handcrafted playlists ("mixes") of at least eight tracks, discover mixes by mood, activity, genre, and tag, and play them back through the web, iOS, and Android apps. Founded in 2008, it grew to more than eight million monthly listeners by 2014 before declining. 8tracks published a public REST API (v2/v3) that exposed mix discovery, playback token sessions, track skip/report events, and user likes/favorites, but stopped issuing new API keys in February 2015. The company ceased operations on December 31, 2019, briefly relaunched under BackBeat Inc. in April 2020, and the service has been inactive since. This profile documents the historical API surface and web properties.

8Tracks publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Music, Streaming, Radio, and Playlists.

8Tracks’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, engineering blog, authentication, and 7 more developer resources.

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17.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 14/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
1 APIs
CompanyMusicStreamingRadioPlaylistsAudioMediaEntertainment

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 17.7/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 14/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

8tracks API v3

Historical public REST API for the 8tracks internet-radio platform. Exposes mix discovery and search, per-session play tokens, playback control (play/next/skip/report), similar-...

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

8Tracks Authentication

3 schemes

SECURITY

8Tracks Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown
WellKnown

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages
Packages

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Deprecation
Deprecation

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: 8tracks
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/8tracks.png
name: 8Tracks
description: 8tracks was a San Francisco-based internet radio and social music-streaming service that let people create and
  share handcrafted playlists ("mixes") of at least eight tracks, discover mixes by mood, activity, genre, and tag, and play
  them back through the web, iOS, and Android apps. Founded in 2008, it grew to more than eight million monthly listeners
  by 2014 before declining. 8tracks published a public REST API (v2/v3) that exposed mix discovery, playback token sessions,
  track skip/report events, and user likes/favorites, but stopped issuing new API keys in February 2015. The company ceased
  operations on December 31, 2019, briefly relaunched under BackBeat Inc. in April 2020, and the service has been inactive
  since. This profile documents the historical API surface and web properties.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/8tracks/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: a16z-portfolio
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: inactive
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
tags:
- Company
- Music
- Streaming
- Radio
- Playlists
- Audio
- Media
- Entertainment
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://8tracks.com/developers
- type: Documentation
  url: https://8tracks.com/developers/includes
- type: APIReference
  url: https://8tracks.com/developers/api_v3
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.8tracks.com
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/8tracks-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/8tracks-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/8tracks-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/8tracks-lifecycle.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/8tracks-packages.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/8tracks-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/8tracks-well-known.yml
apis:
- name: 8tracks API v3
  description: Historical public REST API for the 8tracks internet-radio platform. Exposes mix discovery and search, per-session
    play tokens, playback control (play/next/skip/report), similar-mix recommendation, and authenticated user actions (likes,
    track favorites). Responses are available in JSON, XML, and JSONP. New API keys have not been issued since February 2015
    and the service is inactive.
  humanURL: https://8tracks.com/developers/api_v3
  baseURL: https://8tracks.com/
  tags:
  - Music
  - Streaming
  - Playlists
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://8tracks.com/developers/api_v3
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://8tracks.com/developers/includes
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/8tracks-authentication.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence