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/comments/34goss/meta_groovesha...
Grooveshark Shuts Down
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I definitely think you're in the minority. I don't remember the last time I bought an album or song, but I use streaming music services all the time. Same goes for anyone I know. Admittedly anecdotal but then again so is your assertion.
How do you buy an album or song without it being DRM-chained to a particular service? That's my problem with music. I've settled on Spotify for this reason, but I was extremely disappointed to read that I'm probably not contributing in any meaningful way to the less-than-popular artists I listen to.
I get them all from Amazon music; it's all non-DRMed MP3. Like most online music has been for a while, tbh.
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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.
Honestly, yes. Even if you were paying money for it, Grooveshark was blatantly, flagrantly illegal.
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Use a legit service like spotify and discover new music. I've started listening to dozens of new artists because of it.
It had the exact opposite effect for me. I used Spotify for a couple of years and basically only listened to the same playlists over and over again. Only when they forced people to use Facebook to log in I stopped paying and using their service and suddenly a whole new world oppened for me. I started using SoundCloud, Jammendo and YouTube to find new music from outside of the mainstream and never looked back. This wa…
I listen to BBC Radio 6 for new music (mainly Lauren Laverne) and the blogged 50 radio on Google Play. When I hear something I like I just add it in google Play.
Spotify didn't stop you from finding new music, your own habits/place you were in in life did that. I went through a phase of only listening to all my existing mp3s for a few years, but the last year has been an orgy of new stuff.
I wouldn't attribute it to listening/not listening to a streaming service.
Google Play slightly annoys me at times, the app is pretty horribly designed and slow at times, but spotify was blocked on a network I regularly used and I'm used to its quirks now.
I don't buy music any more. At the moment there's simply no point with a Google Play subscription. The only band I've noticed missing is Placebo's old albums.
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Buy a t-shirt. That's the most direct route to actually help them out with as few middlemen as possible.
Can somebody verify this? I'm one who used Groove Shark to discovered music that I really like and then bought it in an effort to support the musician (thanks big music, you just took away one of your means of extracting money out of me). I would happily wear the t-shirt if I knew that it was in fact the most direct route to actually transfer money to the musician.
I remember that most bands, especially small ones made most of their money off merch. Not sure how it works for larger bands though.
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#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
Buy a t-shirt. That's the most direct route to actually help them out with as few middlemen as possible.
Can somebody verify this? I'm one who used Groove Shark to discovered music that I really like and then bought it in an effort to support the musician (thanks big music, you just took away one of your means of extracting money out of me). I would happily wear the t-shirt if I knew that it was in fact the most direct route to actually transfer money to the musician.
I was a professional musician for 15 years. After having kids, the amount of time that I would've had to spend on the road playing and selling t shirts would've far outweighed the time I would've had to be home raising them, so I started teaching myself development in the tour bus. That was 7 years ago.
My old band is still out there, selling out Red Rocks, and any of their merch that you can buy at the show has the highest margin of anything. This is true for every band from John Mayer to the Avett Brothers to your local Dead cover band.
So help me God, buy a shirt at the show or on their website.
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#268Well, I'm sorta sad and pissed. I was in their original $30/year plan and I got charged like 1 month ago... No refund? :(
If it was on a credit card, you could try contacting the bank for a refund. I don't know exactly the rules/laws about it, but I'd think only getting 1/12th of what you paid for is pretty good cause to get most of it back.
I used a debit card :(. But yeah, even getting half back would've been nice.
This is a good reminder that I should stop using my debit card online, thanks!
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#270super cruddy of them not to send anything out about this going down was using a week or two ago and now all the songs and play lists gone just a let down majorly.