Launched in February 2022, Heardle was one of the most popular daily games to emerge in the wake of the latter-pandemic sensation Wordle. The premise: Players must guess which song they’re hearing as quickly as possible as the game reveals a few seconds of music at a time — so basically Name That Tune in internet form. When Spotify bought Heardle last summer, they announced, “We see Heardle as more than a trivia game: It’s also a tool for musical discovery.” But now, less than a year later, they’re shutting the game down.