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Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by nwienert »

eLobato wrote: post #5
bdz wrote: post #2

How the hell is Grooveshark still alive? Essentially it's a streaming frontend for illegaly uploaded music.

You could argue the same about Youtube, in some sense. They do pay royalties to some artists, and at least for a while a lot of upcoming artists were advertising their new albums there. I discovered a bunch of great groups through that. Unrelated with revenue, but I liked how some artists (Avicii comes to mind) ask you what do you think about X song when you play it in Grooveshark, that's some valuable direct feedbac…

You just supported his point. The best feature of Grooveshark is that it has a big library... because it's acquired illegally. I just listened to Drake's entire album thats coming out next week. Sweet, but totally illegal.

Rdio has a better interface, Spotify better social/apps, Pandora better radio. Grooveshark will die because it's only option is to eventually go legal, and then it loses it's only advantage.

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by fastest963 »

code_duck wrote: post #13

I would use this all the time but there's one problem: the song doesn't advance to the next one on my iphone unless Safari is open. So, my phone has to be on with the screen on or the music ends when a song ends. (Grooveshark has had this player for a while... I haven't tried it in iOS 7).

We're currently working on a solution for this. The problem is that Safari stops running javascript and allowing us to stream audio after the phone has been off for some time.

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by fastest963 »

Mozai wrote: post #24

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

Looks like its trying to run the site in strict JS mode. Do you have any extensions that might be forcing this?

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by fastest963 »

um304 wrote: post #18

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.

That's unfortunte that you've ran into bugs. Make sure to contact support@grooveshark.com whenever you encounter something weird and they'll make sure to report it and compensate you ;)

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by vially »

fastest963 wrote: post #46
vially wrote: post #21

Where is the volume button?

I think the intention is that you change the volume on your phone.

Yes. I was suspecting this but since this works pretty well on the desktop as well (I actually prefer it over the normal interface) I think a volume button might be useful.

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by Miyamoto »

ashray wrote: post #10

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…

YouTube is still the king of Internet music. I can find full length new releases of relatively unknown music on YouTube that I can't find anywhere else. The downsides of YouTube are quality control, and that as a playlist application it kind of sucks (compared to GrooveShark).

Re: Lightweight HTML5 Grooveshark Player

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Post by thirdsun »

neya wrote: post #6
bdz wrote: post #2

How the hell is Grooveshark still alive? Essentially it's a streaming frontend for illegaly uploaded music.

>Essentially it's a streaming frontend for illegaly uploaded music. And I think it's only a good thing. 'Legal/Illegal' are just man-made barriers to access the spirit of freedom to rejoice/discover various cultures/tradition/communities. I understand that there is a possible monetary loss involved as a side-effect, but I don't think it's much serious as the various Copyright organisations project it to us[1]. If tha…

What do you do for a living? Whatever it is, in the spirit of freedom I hereby demand that you offer your services for free.

Doesn't sound like a good idea, does it?

Music, just like any other service, art or physical product, requires time and effort - it has value and is not a commodity. If you don't value it enough to justify spending more than the price tag of a spotify subscription (which doesn't help any artist anyway), then don't - it's fine - but don't expect artists to work for free.

That said, Grooveshark is a mor ethan shady business and should have been closed a long time ago in my opinion.

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