Grooveshark Shuts Down • Hacker News Board

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by bane » Fri, May 01, 2015, 1:06 AM UTC

FooNull wrote: post #13

I'm sooooo glad I was paying a yearly fee for a VIP membership... and now I can't even get a copy of my playlists. All of those obscure songs I fell in love with are gone. I wonder if the information they turned over included my credit card billing data... Is it time to build a personal, private, self-hosted, open-source grooveshark clone?

Not really open source, but plex works pretty well for hosting and making your private collection accessible. Works awesome with chromescasts as well.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by jrowley » Fri, May 01, 2015, 1:06 AM UTC

clinth wrote: post #16

Why embed the message in an image, instead of text?

If you don't know CSS and already laid off the person who does, then it's a good way to center text.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by krylon » Fri, May 01, 2015, 1:07 AM UTC

Grooveshark's radio was awesome. I cannot count how many artists I have discovered that way.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by FooNull » Fri, May 01, 2015, 1:07 AM UTC

dublinben wrote: post #23

FooNull wrote: post #13

I'm sooooo glad I was paying a yearly fee for a VIP membership... and now I can't even get a copy of my playlists. All of those obscure songs I fell in love with are gone. I wonder if the information they turned over included my credit card billing data... Is it time to build a personal, private, self-hosted, open-source grooveshark clone?

You can already run your own streaming service with Subsonic today. What are you waiting for?

http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp ?

This seems like an interesting project. I've never heard about it before, though I do wish it was an open-source one...

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by zzalpha » Fri, May 01, 2015, 1:07 AM UTC

Eh, after a couple years with a paid GS subscription I switched to a higher quality paid service a while ago. Grooveshark's brutally bad album support, combined with the penchant for content just vanishing from my playlists, rendered the service nearly useless to me in the long run.

AFAICT, it's most unique feature was community radios... a feature I'd love to see replicated elsewhere but is, as for as I know anyway, still unduplicated.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by eugeneross » Fri, May 01, 2015, 1:08 AM UTC

clinth wrote: post #16

Why embed the message in an image, instead of text?

All this time that's what I've been thinking too.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by eugeneross » Fri, May 01, 2015, 1:08 AM UTC

jrowley wrote: post #32

clinth wrote: post #16

Why embed the message in an image, instead of text?

If you don't know CSS and already laid off the person who does, then it's a good way to center text.

+1

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by FooNull » Fri, May 01, 2015, 1:09 AM UTC

krylon wrote: post #33

Grooveshark's radio was awesome. I cannot count how many artists I have discovered that way.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. The majority of my favorite playlists were filled with music I had slowly curated by favoriting songs I heard while listening to the radio stations. Even if I can still listen to my own music via youtube/vlc, the grooveshark ecosystem was a gem, and now it is gone

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by hoodoof » Fri, May 01, 2015, 1:10 AM UTC

>>As part of the settlement agreement with the major record companies, we have agreed to cease operations immediately, wipe clean all of the record companies’ copyrighted works and hand over ownership of this website, our mobile apps and intellectual property, including our patents and copyrights.

Wow - a company comprehensively crushed and defeated.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by jackson800 » Fri, May 01, 2015, 1:11 AM UTC

KamiCrit wrote: post #3

Wow, was listening to some Sturgill Simpson, went out and came back to a "server is having issues" page. Refreshed it later and this happens!

If you act quick, you can access some of your playlist data by logging in here:

http://groovebackup.com/

I couldn't get everything back, but could get a few of my playlists at least...