Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player
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Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player
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Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player
#2How the hell is Grooveshark still alive? Essentially it's a streaming frontend for illegaly uploaded music.
Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player
#3How the hell is Grooveshark still alive? Essentially it's a streaming frontend for illegaly uploaded music.
Tenacity, that's how: http://mashable.com/2013/04/22/grooveshark-radio/
Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player
#4How the hell is Grooveshark still alive? Essentially it's a streaming frontend for illegaly uploaded music.
Tenacity, that's how: http://mashable.com/2013/04/22/grooveshark-radio/
I love that company. But I just don't see a future where it keeps its doors open. Especially now with Google and Apple joining in.
Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player
#5How the hell is Grooveshark still alive? Essentially it's a streaming frontend for illegaly uploaded music.
You could argue the same about Youtube, in some sense.
They do pay royalties to some artists, and at least for a while a lot of upcoming artists were advertising their new albums there. I discovered a bunch of great groups through that.
Unrelated with revenue, but I liked how some artists (Avicii comes to mind) ask you what do you think about X song when you play it in Grooveshark, that's some valuable direct feedback. The radios are awesome too.
Can't hide the fact I've been using it for years, but I truly think Grooveshark is the best music streaming service by far. Spotify's catalog is nowhere as large, Pandora misses on so many features, Last.fm recommendations are good but what else do they do...
Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player
#6How the hell is Grooveshark still alive? Essentially it's a streaming frontend for illegaly uploaded music.
>Essentially it's a streaming frontend for illegaly uploaded music.
And I think it's only a good thing. 'Legal/Illegal' are just man-made barriers to access the spirit of freedom to rejoice/discover various cultures/tradition/communities.
I understand that there is a possible monetary loss involved as a side-effect, but I don't think it's much serious as the various Copyright organisations project it to us[1]. If that was how it was, the internet would be piracy free, already.
[1] http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-piracy-boosts-music-sales...
Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player
#7Side note: my favorite radio show is uploaded to Grooveshark and the other day I needed to listen it offline, so I just used a proxy (fiddler) and save the stream from the proxy session console. There is an API where you can do the same, I think, because is just one request with the location of the MP3 audio. There are a lot of apps for downloading mp3 from Grooveshark but they usually came with a lot of crapware.
Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player
#8How the hell is Grooveshark still alive? Essentially it's a streaming frontend for illegaly uploaded music.
They've done it tough, but they've signed licensing deals with Sony and EMI in the last 6 weeks.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/28/4668442/grooveshark-settle...
Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player
#9Side note: my favorite radio show is uploaded to Grooveshark and the other day I needed to listen it offline, so I just used a proxy (fiddler) and save the stream from the proxy session console. There is an API where you can do the same, I think, because is just one request with the location of the MP3 audio. There are a lot of apps for downloading mp3 from Grooveshark but they usually came with a lot of crapware.
if do not mind Ruby. I am sure you can use https://github.com/sosedoff/grooveshark and wget.
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#10Grooveshark is amazing. They have the best library out there hands down. Yes, they got it through piracy yadda yadda but they have more music than any of the legit services out there (I pay $9.99 for rdio per month..).
The thing is that I can find label music on Grooveshark (iTunes top 500 sort of stuff) but I can also easily find the most obscure stuff you can think of. So fan remixes, and regional music (Indian music, Pakistani music, Lebanese music, etc. etc.). The other services out there have a LONG way to go to make that happen.