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Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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post #54

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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.

I'm in Europe, and I can't access Pandora. It says it's only available in US/Canada, doesn't mention any other locations.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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post #175

I knew. I KNEW I should have backed up my music library. I once played a bit with their Javascript front-end and figured out how I could do it, but never got around to. I also planned on asking them to send me a copy -- I'm a paying customer, it seemed reasonable. A copy of the song list of course, not the songs themselves. Now I only have what is cached locally on my phone. I've disabled WiFi and mobile data and ope…

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Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

#273
post #175

I knew. I KNEW I should have backed up my music library. I once played a bit with their Javascript front-end and figured out how I could do it, but never got around to. I also planned on asking them to send me a copy -- I'm a paying customer, it seemed reasonable. A copy of the song list of course, not the songs themselves. Now I only have what is cached locally on my phone. I've disabled WiFi and mobile data and ope…

How did you decrypt offlined files?

I have a bunch of songs trapped in the official app on an android device. I would love to know how to convert the .dat files into .mp3s or similar. please share

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

#274
post #205

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You can probably recover your playlist. (Instructions for Chrome) On the computer you used grooveshark on: visit the website, open developer tools, open "resources tab", click on local storage->grooveshark.com. Now find the key called 'libraryXXXXXX' where the X's are numbers. Right-click it, "edit value" and copy/paste that data here: https://json-csv.com . Source of instructions: http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comme…

I just made an account on this site so I could tell you this, but you just saved the last four years of my music collection. I can't tell you how incredibly thankful I am right now.

I just made an account also only to tell yuo that I am incredibly grateful for your help, my music is really important to me and you just saved my several-year collection. THANK YOU!!!

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

#275
post #175

I knew. I KNEW I should have backed up my music library. I once played a bit with their Javascript front-end and figured out how I could do it, but never got around to. I also planned on asking them to send me a copy -- I'm a paying customer, it seemed reasonable. A copy of the song list of course, not the songs themselves. Now I only have what is cached locally on my phone. I've disabled WiFi and mobile data and ope…

How did you decrypt offlined files? I have a bunch of songs trapped in the official app on an android device. I would love to know how to convert the .dat files into .mp3s or similar. please share

I haven't found a way yet, cracking the encryption is taking longer than I expected. I spent about a day on it now and it could take another few days, but I probably have the decryption key at home. I'll be home next Friday, so that would be the earliest time I could get to them (if I still have it).

Send me your email address at temp84293@lucb1e.com if you want to be updated when I found it. Or if you find anything, let me know too! :)

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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It doens't sound like a letter the CEO would write -- it appears to be mostly reflective of the opinion/perspective of those that won the lawsuit and took over the site.

Yes, I'd agree especially considering that it's an image not text.

What is the difference, if you don't mind me asking? How does the use of an image instead of text make it seem like it's not actually from Grooveshark?

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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post #227
post #81

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First Groovy gets its development funding pulled and hosting infrastructure shut down, now 3 months later Grooveshark does the same. It's not a good year for anything named Groov * in the startup space!

I don't think Grooveshark counts as a startup.

Nor does the Groovy Language, but they both started up about 10 yrs ago -- perhaps it took a decade for the Groov* startup curse to manifest!

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

#279
post #223

To recover my collections and playlists i used: webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PutYourUrlHere&strip=1 1. Seach your profile (or your profile's collection, playlist etc.) with Google. 2. Don't click search results, just copy the URL of your profile 3. Replace the text "PutYourUrlHere" with the URL you copied. It is important to include "&strip=1" at the end because it opens you the text version of the p…

Could you try it again and see if that still works? I couldn't get it (or any of the other methods) to work. Did they maybe update the robots.txt so google can't cache it anymore?

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

#280
post #181

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> There's nothing, absolutely nothing No, there is something. You could use the blockchain as a decentralized torrent tracker.

Why on earth does that need canonical ordering.

It's not about the canonical ordering. It's about storing the pointers to files in a way that cannot be taken down by authorities. The playlists themselves could be stored anywhere, including but not necessarily in the blockchain.
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