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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?
Popcorn Time [1] meets Spotify?
"That was wrong. We apologize"... After what, 3-4 years of mainly illegal content? Wow :) if only every crime was that easy to deal with. It's very Wall Street of them.
The burden of proof is MUCH higher in criminal proceedings and for that reason we have "innocent until proven guilty" presumption.
Civil matters often come down to who has deeper pockets and more lawyers.
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..."
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,…
Which service did you move to?
Then I decided to give All Access a try and discovered a pretty enormous selection at a decent price (double what I was paying for my GS subscription, but with a properly curated library that doesn't disappear randomly), with full offlining support to my phone.
Overall I've been incredibly happy. I'm sure other services are as good or better but I've not found a reason, yet, to shop around so I figure I'll stick with Play for the foreseeable future.
Such contrast in fortunes when you compare YouTube [0] and Grooveshark. Grooveshark, for most part, was an amazing service. They were at the forefront of UI design, brilliant at surfacing new and related content (music), excellent at quality of service (variable bit-rate buffering).
You would think that with a good exit to a company like Yahoo or Amazon, it could have really been a hit. I could easily imagine Google gobbling them up and merging it with Vevo. It isn't a dramatically different service than YouTube. But it wasn't to be.
Doesn't it make sense to open source code when you know the product is dying?
[0] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/04/23/cheaper-bandwidth-...
Reposting 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/
However, it's also possible to get some playlists from your browsers local cache:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h9ubz6l2uedt6mc/Screenshot%202015-...
"That was wrong. We apologize"... After what, 3-4 years of mainly illegal content? Wow :) if only every crime was that easy to deal with. It's very Wall Street of them.
