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Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by jschulenklopper »

BoppreH wrote: post #138

I discovered it a few minutes ago because I had just purchased a Premium Spotify license and opened Grooveshark to export my collections. All my favorite songs, albums and bands were listed there, and only there. I used Grooveshark for a few years, and enjoyed it. Thank you for that. But also fuck you. Throwing away data like that is unforgivable for a service. Imagine Facebook disappearing with your list of friends,…

> Throwing away data like that is unforgivable for a service.

Did you consider that immediate deletion of the data might have been part of the settlement agreement, and that there was (for Grooveshark or their owners) therefor not much of a choice to do otherwise?

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by BoppreH »

jschulenklopper wrote: post #141
BoppreH wrote: post #138

I discovered it a few minutes ago because I had just purchased a Premium Spotify license and opened Grooveshark to export my collections. All my favorite songs, albums and bands were listed there, and only there. I used Grooveshark for a few years, and enjoyed it. Thank you for that. But also fuck you. Throwing away data like that is unforgivable for a service. Imagine Facebook disappearing with your list of friends,…

> Throwing away data like that is unforgivable for a service. Did you consider that immediate deletion of the data might have been part of the settlement agreement, and that there was (for Grooveshark or their owners) therefor not much of a choice to do otherwise?

I fail to see how my list of song titles infringes copyright and requires immediate deletion.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by look_lookatme »

Tunecrew wrote: post #97

As someone who works full time in the music business, I shed no tears for Grooveshark. The only thing I don't like about this situation is that there appears to be no settlement for the thousands (tens, hundreds?) of indie artists, labels, writers and publishers whose music was on the site. 10% revenue loss for an indie label or publisher has a far greater impact on their viability than 10% loss to .

Oh don't worry, your masters at the labels and publishers got all their assets. Sorry you won't see a dime from them, either.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by andrewjkerr »

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…

I completely agree with you. Hopefully something will come to fill the space that Grooveshark left, but Grooveshark did a lot for the tech community there. GroovesharkU, presentations, events, etc. They'll definitely be missed.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by mynameishere »

When BMI and ASCAP can shut down a coffee house "open mic" night in 24 hours it's absolutely astonishing that grooveshark lasted as long as it did.

But what's the harm? Just torrent the music you want, or if your daddy's rich, buy it for 99 cents or whatever.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by beagle3 »

BoppreH wrote: post #138

I discovered it a few minutes ago because I had just purchased a Premium Spotify license and opened Grooveshark to export my collections. All my favorite songs, albums and bands were listed there, and only there. I used Grooveshark for a few years, and enjoyed it. Thank you for that. But also fuck you. Throwing away data like that is unforgivable for a service. Imagine Facebook disappearing with your list of friends,…

> Imagine Facebook disappearing with your list of friends, or Google Docs with your documents.

Yes, I imagine it on a daily basis. That's how the cloud works. It's happened before, and it will happen again. Any cloud based data is bound to disappear at any second because of a hack (ask Matt Hunan), because of a court order you are not aware of, because of an in-court-or-out-of-court settlement you are not part of and not aware of. Lots of reasons. That's why I don't actually trust the cloud as anything but backup.

Furthermore, anything not backed up offline (even if there's an online backup) is also in danger from malicious actors.

The only person to blame for not keeping a backup (of just the song titles, no less) is yourself. Use expletives if it makes you feel better, though, by all means.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by SuperPaintMan »

I've been a GS user since almost the beginning, back when there was a little java tool for uploading your music collection. GS gave me a way to access my library for free and in a consistent manner over the past decade. I waited for days as my library of 10000+ tracks (90% indie/alt + underground artists) uploaded to their servers.

GS was way ahead of the curve when it came to delivering music easily and widely. The HTML5 interface worked simly everywhere. Using a IE on a 360? 1st gen iPhone? Potato? Search as song, press play, enjoy.

GS filled a niche that Spotify cannot ever fill. Because GS was built upon the libraries of its users, all the little mp3s that had been hoarded, recorded, never officially released, fan remixes and safegaurded had been uploaded with the mainstream content. It was built on what users kept because they knew it could not be replaced. The special, the underground.

So long GS. "Hack the Gibson, hack the Gibson, I'm seedin' BitTorrents like a digital pimp, son."

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