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Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Grooveshark is amazing. They have the best library out there hands down. Yes, they got it through piracy yadda yadda but they have more music than any of the legit services out there (I pay $9.99 for rdio per month..). The thing is that I can find label music on Grooveshark (iTunes top 500 sort of stuff) but I can also easily find the most obscure stuff you can think of. So fan remixes, and regional music (Indian mus…

Grooveshark has great breadth, but lacks in depth. There are lots of types of music, but I find that they rarely have the specific artists that I'm looking for. (I mainly listen to power metal.) Also, there are a lot of tracks that finish prematurely, are just static, or simply don't play. I've tried flagging them as broken, but Grooveshark keeps adding them to my playlists. There are also tons of tagging issues (ie:…

I had loads of fun sharing mistagged songs on Facebook, fishing for those "less in the known".

My favorite mistag is "Freebird" by "Led Zeppelin". Also, I'm of firm belief no one ever fixes that, as I've reported loads. And that's ok with me. :)

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Grooveshark has been my favorite online music player for last 3 years, but recently I have observed a lot of bugs on their site, which hinders smoooth experience and forces me to consider alternatives.

Used to love Grooveshark, but the music quality started to get a little too hit-or-miss for me. I find "normal" radio services like TuneIn, Pandora, and now iTunes Radio to be an overall better experience.

I am impressed that Grooveshark is still kicking, though, as I don't hear much about them outside of random articles on HN.

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Odd. In Midori and Chromium, seems to work correctly. In Firefox, it appears crippled and I get 38 errors on the console -- SyntaxError, TypeError, ReferenceError -- including:

[09:42:19.907] SyntaxError: in strict mode code, functions may be declared only at top level or immediately within another function @ http://html5.grooveshark.com/build/app.min.js:1

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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If you access the site from Germany, they tell you that they have shut down in Germany because of too high operating costs.

It's the same from Denmark. I guess most EU countries are cut off from Grooveshark these days.

strangely enough, in hungary GS works fine and spotify doesn't.

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Odd. In Midori and Chromium, seems to work correctly. In Firefox, it appears crippled and I get 38 errors on the console -- SyntaxError, TypeError, ReferenceError -- including: [09:42:19.907] SyntaxError: in strict mode code, functions may be declared only at top level or immediately within another function @ http://html5.grooveshark.com/build/app.min.js:1

Works fine in Firefox 27 for me.

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Odd. In Midori and Chromium, seems to work correctly. In Firefox, it appears crippled and I get 38 errors on the console -- SyntaxError, TypeError, ReferenceError -- including: [09:42:19.907] SyntaxError: in strict mode code, functions may be declared only at top level or immediately within another function @ http://html5.grooveshark.com/build/app.min.js:1

Fine here, on Firefox Mobile 24.

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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If you access the site from Germany, they tell you that they have shut down in Germany because of too high operating costs.

It's the same from Denmark. I guess most EU countries are cut off from Grooveshark these days.

Works fine here in Portugal.
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