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Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by Jhsto »

wslh wrote: post #7

Side 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.

You can do the same with play.spotify.com, but you need premium account instead of API access.

With ID3 tagging it's a great way to keep your offline music organized even with devices which do not have Spotify on them.

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by rglover »

bdz wrote: post #2

How the hell is Grooveshark still alive? Essentially it's a streaming frontend for illegaly uploaded music.

I use Grooveshark daily. Aside from the excellent UI and service (couldn't tell you the last time it was down), the catalog is incredible.

One thing to note, though, is that they do pretty well with takedowns. For example, I attempted to upload a copyrighted song years ago and uploads were disabled on my account. They also work with publishers and artists to ensure fair compensation is made.

I've paid for the Pro account for a few years now and strongly believe they could do better than their competition if they made the service paid-only.

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by code_duck »

I would use this all the time but there's one problem: the song doesn't advance to the next one on my iphone unless Safari is open. So, my phone has to be on with the screen on or the music ends when a song ends. (Grooveshark has had this player for a while... I haven't tried it in iOS 7).

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by dsirijus »

This is live for ages. I think they just started PR around this because it can now not die on iOS 7, running in background.

As a side note, try out Leap Motion playback controls on GS (in Settings > Subscription, wtf), they're super sweet. I just wave my hands around to control music, it's awesome!

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by nnnnni »

dsirijus wrote: post #14

This is live for ages. I think they just started PR around this because it can now not die on iOS 7, running in background. As a side note, try out Leap Motion playback controls on GS (in Settings > Subscription, wtf), they're super sweet. I just wave my hands around to control music, it's awesome!

Yeah, I've been using this for about a year!

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by VMG »

auggierose wrote: post #15

If you access the site from Germany, they tell you that they have shut down in Germany because of too high operating costs.

that statement by itself is a little cryptic - the operating costs are caused by the GEMA agency: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_f%C3%BCr_musikalis...

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by rcfox »

ashray wrote: post #10

Grooveshark 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 mus…

Grooveshark has great breadth, but lacks in depth. There are lots of types of music, but I find that they rarely have the specific artists that I'm looking for. (I mainly listen to power metal.)

Also, there are a lot of tracks that finish prematurely, are just static, or simply don't play. I've tried flagging them as broken, but Grooveshark keeps adding them to my playlists. There are also tons of tagging issues (ie: there's one album under "Battle Beast" and another under "BATTLE BEAST" for the same band), making it difficult to find things sometimes.

I agree, Grooveshark is the best one out there, but it's far from perfect.

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