Like many of the big websites of the 1990s and early 2000s, Epitonic raised a lot of money and spent it just as quickly. When the dot-com bubble burst found itself in trouble. In 2003 the site was acquired by Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures and ran alongside Palm's other brands including Rykodisc, Manga, "RES", and sputnik7. In 2004 Palm shut the doors on Epitonic.com to focus on other brands. In 2006 Palm partnered with a company called Echospin and attempted to relaunch the site with no success. Another company, Audiotube purchased the rights to Epitonic and also failed to restart the site.