Song sharing service This Is My Jam shuts down the ‘right’ way

When internet services shut down, that’s usually all she wrote. You have a few weeks to grab your data, and then all those memories are lost forever. Well, that’s not going to happen with song sharing service This Is My Jam. While the service “in its current form” is unfortunately riding into the sunset this September, it’s bending over backwards to keep as many things running as possible. You won’t get to post, but you will have access to just about everything else — everyone’s shares will still be available (including through Spotify playlists), and developers can still tinker with a lot of TIMJ’s code. As the founders put it, this is more about putting the product into a “time capsule” than turning the lights off.

So why is it shutting down? The creators are candid there, too. Simply put, internet music is no longer as accommodating to TIMJ as it was back when the service launched in 2011. Streaming is gradually moving from the web toward apps, and the combination of service changes with tougher copyright protections has made it difficult to keep song links working. TIMJ could theoretically do its own mobile app, but that would require a “total product reboot” and evidence that it might succeed. We’d add that the service just isn’t as vital as it used to be. When numerous music providers make it almost trivial to share what you’re listening to on social networks (Spotify treats sharing as a tentpole feature), there might not be much point to adding an in-between service, however helpful it might be.

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