The service will live on as a “read-only time capsule”.

Music discovery service This Is My Jam is closing after four years, because the web is now too closed off to allow it function properly.

In a post on Tumblr, two of the founders of the service have cited the move from web streaming to apps, changing web API technology and stricter copyright for embedded audio as their decision, all of which has made running the service progressively more difficult.

“As these platforms matured and consolidated, streams moved from the web into apps, and more sophisticated licensing and geographic controls meant “sorry, this cannot be played here” messages became the norm rather than the exception,” said the developers. “Online music habits change quickly, and our specific approach doesn’t suit today’s users very well.”

Changes to services like YouTube, SoundCloud, Twitter and Facebook has meant the two remaining developers have spent all their time “updating years-old code libraries and hacking around deprecations just to keep the lights on.”

The pair also highlighted the difficulty in shifting the service to mobile, writing: “Unfortunately, rules around mobile streaming are very different from web streaming, prohibitively so. We spent our initial funding on the web version of Jam, and felt doing mobile properly would require a total product reboot, something we weren’t in a position to do at the time.”

Although users will no longer be able to upload new jams from September, the service will live on as a “read-only time capsule”, allowing users to browse an archive and listen to everyone’s jams as Spotify playlist.