Grooveshark Shuts Down • Hacker News Board

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by feybay » Fri, May 01, 2015, 5:54 AM UTC

FooNull wrote: post #76

TheLoneWolfling wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There were add-ons to seamless download songs as you played them, as we as playlists

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by Dobbs » Fri, May 01, 2015, 5:58 AM UTC

WettowelReactor wrote: post #79

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.

They own zero percent of the codebase. According to the link all IP was turned over to the winners of the court case.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by ljk » Fri, May 01, 2015, 6:00 AM UTC

jrowley wrote: post #32

clinth wrote: post #16

Why embed the message in an image, instead of text?

If you don't know CSS and already laid off the person who does, then it's a good way to center text.

genuine question: do you think all the employees didn't know till today, and is being let go all at the same time?

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by kbradero » Fri, May 01, 2015, 6:01 AM UTC

I used Grooveshark, they had the best service and they company was awesome.

Is a shame the music industry is rotten and went as far as to kill this awesome company. My best wish for the team, you guys are great, dont let this get you down.

And kudos for your all these years!

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by techsupporter » Fri, May 01, 2015, 6:08 AM UTC

BoppreH wrote: post #143

jschulenklopper wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

You might fail to see it but it was seen by the lawyers who demanded or negotiated the settlement from the other side of the table where Grooveshark sat. The users weren't a part of the discussion and the winning side--the music industry--was able to get exactly what it wanted because otherwise they'd bankrupt Grooveshark.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by cheepin » Fri, May 01, 2015, 6:16 AM UTC

mahouse wrote: post #26

A good alternative is to use the web version of Spotify ( https://play.spotify.com/ ) with AdBlock.

Wow! I had no idea that they had a web only client. Thanks. I definitely prefer webapps to desktop installs.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by hobs » Fri, May 01, 2015, 6:23 AM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #61

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?

> Is it time to build a personal, private, self-hosted, open-source grooveshark clone? Popcorn Time [1] meets Spotify? [1] https://popcorntime.io/

Sort of already exists, for usenet at least https://github.com/rembo10/headphones

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by tuxninja » Fri, May 01, 2015, 6:30 AM UTC

man that sucks...I liked Grooveshark.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by tuxninja » Fri, May 01, 2015, 6:31 AM UTC

Man that sucks...I liked Grooveshark !

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by Kiro » Fri, May 01, 2015, 6:38 AM UTC

Kiro wrote: post #125

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 .

You make music because it's fun. If you're doing it for the money you're doing it wrong. If I could make even a single dime on my music it would be a privilege but I'm happy as it is.

Getting downvoted but my opinion stands: being a musician is not a job and you can't expect to get paid for it. It would be like expecting to get paid for playing video games. Making music is a leisure activity and a very rewarding one. Thinking you should make a living on it is just greedy. Get a normal job and create music for its own sake.