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Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by makomk »

rcfox wrote: post #19
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:…

I'm curious which artists those are - Grooveshark seems to be fairly good compared to competing services in my experience.

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by makomk »

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 don't use the HTML5 player much because it doesn't support broadcasts, which are the main feature I rely on, and it seems to be a bit unreliable on Android in general - it's still neat thoug.

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by MartinodF »

kreddor wrote: post #25
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.

It's the same from Denmark. I guess most EU countries are cut off from Grooveshark these days.

Surprisingly, it works fine here in Italy too.

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by wslh »

bliker wrote: post #9
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.

if do not mind Ruby. I am sure you can use https://github.com/sosedoff/grooveshark and wget.

The way I do it is much simple and it's not using the API. Just open the proxy sessions in Fiddler and save the response.

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by imissmyjuno »

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!

they must've optimized it some more since I've last tried. it runs very snappily on the Nexus 4, as fast as a native app for the most part, and that hasn't been the case last time I tried it. well done.

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by dagw »

kreddor wrote: post #25
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.

It's the same from Denmark. I guess most EU countries are cut off from Grooveshark these days.

Works great in Sweden.

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by notregistering »

The HTML5 player has been standard for at least a year now for GS. The two primary reasons I've avoided it are: - Lack of broadcasts. (Presumably available in their native app.) - Lack of wired.com-esque topnav position fixing in Chrome mobile. It's a minor thing, but having the entire page shift down every time you scroll can lead to incorrect menu selections when mindlessly selecting music.
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