bummer. There goes allll my playlists.
Playlists aren't illegal, what are the odds of a possibility for extraction ?
Well considering that they've handed over the servers and data to the plaintiffs... you probably shouldn't hold your breath
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#52There's a large number of artists who's CDs I've bought because I was able to listen to their entire album on Grooveshark. Artists who's radio songs didn't come close to demonstrating their true skills. Of course, I've also passed on CDs because I was able to find out an artist only has 1 or 2 songs worth listening to. This is seriously going to hinder my discovering of new music. I didn't even know they were in court but I knew it couldn't last.
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#53Wow, 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...
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#54Uau that was a big surprise! I have been using this service for such a long time. Now, what would be the best alternatives available ?
Perhaps any of the alternatives they listed on their site?
They're only available in the US/Canada and sometimes Europe, so maybe the request is for global alternatives.
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#55I'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?
I switched from Grooveshark VIP to Spotify Premium years ago, however I came back every once in a while to listen to remixes that were not available elsewhere from time to time.
I'm sad that there's not even access to the playlists anymore.
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#56Well, I'm sorta sad and pissed. I was in their original $30/year plan and I got charged like 1 month ago... No refund? :(
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#57Reposting a reply by Jackson800 to a comment below: If you act quick, you can access some of your playlist data by logging in here: http://groovebackup.com/
WONDERFUL
It didn't have all of my playlists, but I was able to at least recover a small portion of my songs. Some is better than none...
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#58Wow, 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!
Never heard of Sturgill Simpson. While reading your comment I copied the name and habitually went to paste it into Grooveshark :(
edit: I haven't gotten excited about any guitar based music in a long time, least of all country, this band is great!
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#59Eh, 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,…
Which service did you move to?
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#60I'm actually surprised it lasted so long. The business model was wrong from the beginning. The thing is that in the early months/years, nothing was working as well as Grooveshark. If the website made the big record make so move, all the Grooveshark team's work was not in vein.
Just a heads up, its vain, not vein. =))
Vein would be for blood in that case ;)
Thanks