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Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by fletchowns »

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?

Subsonic + iSub is absolutely wonderful, been a huge fan of that combo for years.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by __david__ »

FooNull wrote: post #34
dublinben wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Subsonic is GPL.

I've been running it for a few years now. I especially like using it with iSub on iOS, though that isn't under active development anymore (it's GPL now, too).

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by ladybro »

adamwong246 wrote: post #8
whichfawkes wrote: post #2

Does anyone have a good sense for how hard it would be to operate a service like this in a vaguely legal way? I understand that Grooveshark's own employees were instructed to download music and upload it to Grooveshark. If this had not been the case, or if they could not prove that this was the case, would their service be technically legal (safe harbor laws,etc)?

You'd have thought they'ed be smarter than that. They go to all this trouble to get around the DMCA and then they get busted because they told the employees to upload music, from work computers no less.

IIRC, this was in the very beginning of the company, the first year or so.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by ams6110 »

Syrup-tan wrote: post #12

The site is just an image with small text, so I've transcribed it here; --- Dear music fans, Today we are shutting down Grooveshark. We started out nearly ten years ago with the goal of helping fans share and discover music. But despite the best of intentions, we made very serious mistakes. We failed to secure licenses from rights holders for the vast amount of music on the service. That was wrong. We apologize. With…

Should have been personally signed by the CEO, not "your friends at..."

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by kozed »

adamwong246 wrote: post #6

bummer. There goes allll my playlists.

I've always noticed random songs disappearing from my collection but procrastinated doing anything about it. I wrote a script two weeks ago to download my entire collection to avoid potentially losing some really great songs. Talk about good timing. I always knew grooveshark would be temporary and possibly unreliable but I did not expect an unannounced closure with no ability to extract our collection metadata.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by williamcotton »

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!

That's a really quick shutdown... there should have been some fair warning.

BTW, Sturgill Simpson was the best find I've had for new music in a long, long time. You gotta see him live if you get a chance. Little Joe, his guitarist, somehow keeps getting better and better!

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by mikewhy »

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 connect an existing iTunes library to Plex and stream it anywhere.

You can also have Plex organize your music, but I've only ever used the iTunes part

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