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Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

#71

Post by TheLoneWolfling »

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?

If you don't have an external backup, don't complain about losing data.

Services like Grooveshark are no exception.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

#74

Post by bmat »

As a native of Gainesville, FL (where Grooveshark is based), this is really sad news. Certainly they made mistakes, but what few see is how much they contributed to the tech community here. Their CTO has personally mentored many companies in the area, and they have a presence at pretty much every tech-related event. I can't think of any other company within a 100-mile radius that can fill that role now that they're gone. Hopefully they'll spin off some new businesses in the area. Otherwise this will be a huge blow to Gainesville's already struggling tech and startup communities.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

#75

Post by ekianjo »

fnordfnordfnord wrote: post #68
ekianjo wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you have a loaded gun down your throat...

A Hobson's choice is still a choice isn't it? Says so in the name anyway.

Sure, it's still a choice, but it's a situation where you don't have the upper hand and you are bound to lose no matter what you do.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

#76

Post by FooNull »

TheLoneWolfling wrote: post #71
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?

If you don't have an external backup, don't complain about losing data. Services like Grooveshark are no exception.

Yes. Obviously. I should have been downloading the tracks I was listening too and wring my own scripts to parse and save my playlist data with the full expectation that the service I had been paying for would be terminated without warning...

Guess I'll know for next time.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

#77

Post by DaemonHN »

seanieb wrote: post #66
ladybro wrote: post #46

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/

That failed for most of my playlists and favorites. However, it's also possible to get some playlists from your browsers local cache: https://www.dropbox.com/s/h9ubz6l2uedt6mc/Screenshot%202015-...

Thank you, that worked great as it had majority of my library saved in JSON format.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

#78

Post by zzalpha »

bmat wrote: post #74

As a native of Gainesville, FL (where Grooveshark is based), this is really sad news. Certainly they made mistakes, but what few see is how much they contributed to the tech community here. Their CTO has personally mentored many companies in the area, and they have a presence at pretty much every tech-related event. I can't think of any other company within a 100-mile radius that can fill that role now that they're g…

Well, the flipside is, let's face it, their business was pretty darn shady... not much a role model for other up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

I absolutely grant you their technology was pretty cool, and the community features they built are still unreplicated anywhere.

But I'd rather laud businesses who manage to combine cool technology with an ethical, sustainable business model.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

#79

Post by WettowelReactor »

ignoramous wrote: post #65

This makes me immensely sad as a long time user of Grooveshark. 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,…

>> Doesn't it make sense to open source code when you know the product is dying?

That can depend on how much of the code base is their own. If they integrated any licensed components then they may not have the resources necessary to clean it up for release.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

#80

Post by physcab »

Grooveshark, I want you to know I loved you. As a user. As an ex-employee. You taught me so much. I remember my task as an intern was to turn Autoplay into something more beyond office employees voting on their favorite genres of music. I remember my first attempt at an algorithm, everyone got Coldplay as their recommended artist. I remember when we discovered Hadoop for the first time and our analysis on TBs of data took minutes instead of weeks. I remember when Ed accidentally dropped the Artist table on master, then quickly stopped the replication process before all hell broke loose. I remember when Nate made it so every image on any website I visited on my laptop showed sexually explicit material when investors came for a visit. I remember when Skyler met his (now) wife. I remember learning about advertising and meeting Less Than Jake. I remember learning not to run a Group By on mysql when it had 8 billion rows in the middle of the day during peak use. I remember going without a salary for 6 months because we had no money. And yet we persevered. You guys and girls gave me excellent real world experience at a time when I shouldn't have been trusted with a computer. Thank you for all the good times and the great culture you instilled. Hope the Atlantic gives everyone free tallboys tonight.
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