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Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by code_duck »

jasonkester wrote: post #22

I've never used this site before, so I can't comment on how it used to work. This interface is not at all intuitive though. - click a play button on a song - music starts playing - click a different play button - nothing happens - click pause - music stops - click a different play button - nothing happens - click play - first song continues playing Steps to get a second song to actually play after you've got a first…

> The old interface was an empty box saying "what song do you want to hear?" I have no f'ng clue what song I want to hear. I'm on your site so that you can show me some cool new music that I might want to hear.

Then you should listen to some radio site that feeds you music. I enjoy Grooveshark precisely for this reason: I can make a playlist of things I want to listen to, and listen to them.

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by manaskarekar »

dsirijus wrote: post #41

I'm VIP user on GS for 3 years now. The interface was just downhill ever since they've switched from Flash. And not only that, but this thing hogs entire CPU sometimes. Android app is pretty sweet, though it didn't received update in quite a while. Btw, you can be on the edge all the time on http://preview.grooveshark.com Not only that but they've broke the promise that they'll be always free (they're not in a lot of…

> The interface was just downhill ever since they've switched from Flash. And not only that, but this thing hogs entire CPU sometimes.

Absolutely agreed! I sent them feedback about this when that change happened. The first UI was perfect!

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by jashkenas »

cowpewter wrote: post #24
Axsuul wrote: post #13

Took a look at the code. It's built with Backbone.js!

Yup! The previous version used JMVC but it was a poor fit. Backbone does juuuust enough to help you out then gets out of your way. Means you have to write a lot of your own architecture but that's pretty much my favorite thing to do ever (and I hated JMVC) so I gladly did so. The site is way faster now, despite having more stuff going on, just because half the codebase is no longer trying to hack around the parts of…

Hey cowpewter -- I'd love to have you write up your experience for http://backbonejs.org/#examples ... email me a paragraph if you're interested.

Edit: One tip for you as well. I noticed that you're using "#!" in your URL routes. You probably don't want to be doing that these days -- either just plain "#" works, or pushState with hybrid server-side renders if you want to be indexed by search engines.

Re: The New Grooveshark

#64

Post by meunier »

It seems like there's no ordered sorting. I can't say sort my library by track and then by album to you know... play songs in order unless I select a specific album and sort on that. Not especially straightforward.

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by cowpewter »

jashkenas wrote: post #63
cowpewter wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup! The previous version used JMVC but it was a poor fit. Backbone does juuuust enough to help you out then gets out of your way. Means you have to write a lot of your own architecture but that's pretty much my favorite thing to do ever (and I hated JMVC) so I gladly did so. The site is way faster now, despite having more stuff going on, just because half the codebase is no longer trying to hack around the parts of…

Hey cowpewter -- I'd love to have you write up your experience for http://backbonejs.org/#examples ... email me a paragraph if you're interested. Edit : One tip for you as well. I noticed that you're using "#!" in your URL routes. You probably don't want to be doing that these days -- either just plain "#" works, or pushState with hybrid server-side renders if you want to be indexed by search engines.

Sure thing, just got some bugs to squash first. And thanks for making such an awesome lightweight framework.

pushState is somewhere on the backburner...

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by thomaslutz »

thirdsun wrote: post #39
thomaslutz wrote: post #16

And still not available in Germany anymore thanks to GEMA. I use Spotify now.

I think the GEMA should be their smallest problem given the amount of illegal content they keep offering. In my opinion they should have been shut down by now.

Grooveshark or Spotify?

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by SquareWheel »

cowpewter wrote: post #60
SquareWheel wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like it a lot more than the old interface, way more speedy. I have two questions. 1) Does linking to last.fm scrobble your tracks? The description doesn't say. And 2) Can I disable the sidebar when logged in? I just used an adblock filter for now but that's a bit inelegant. Thanks!

Thanks ^^ We're still working on trying to make it even speedier. And yes, if you link your Last.fm account we scrobble your listens. If you're listening to something embarrassing or just letting people use your account to add music at a party or something, you can disable scrobbling for the current session (until you refresh the page) by clicking on the Gear in the top right, choosing Settings, Connect, then clickin…

That's awesome, I'll link last.fm now then.

I do have a suggestion, which may or may not be a terrible idea. If somebody does a perfect search for an artist, why not go directly to that artists page instead of a search page? If I type "Supertramp", I'm probably not looking for a genre or album by that name.

I suppose it could have adverse effects in corner cases (common sounding artist names like "rock" maybe?), but I bet there's a way to determine with pretty good accuracy if they're trying to do a search or go directly to an artist page.

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by cowpewter »

SquareWheel wrote: post #67
cowpewter wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks ^^ We're still working on trying to make it even speedier. And yes, if you link your Last.fm account we scrobble your listens. If you're listening to something embarrassing or just letting people use your account to add music at a party or something, you can disable scrobbling for the current session (until you refresh the page) by clicking on the Gear in the top right, choosing Settings, Connect, then clickin…

That's awesome, I'll link last.fm now then. I do have a suggestion, which may or may not be a terrible idea. If somebody does a perfect search for an artist, why not go directly to that artists page instead of a search page? If I type "Supertramp", I'm probably not looking for a genre or album by that name. I suppose it could have adverse effects in corner cases (common sounding artist names like "rock" maybe?), but…

If we find an exact match, we should feature the artist above the song results. Not exactly going straight to the artist's page, but just one click away.

It does seem to work for me for "Supertramp" http://cl.ly/image/0S253x0J3p2v

I wrote about half that feature and I made extra sure that something like "rock" should highlight the Rock genre and "kid rock" should highlight the artist and "party rock" should highlight the album.

Re: The New Grooveshark

#69

Post by SquareWheel »

cowpewter wrote: post #68
SquareWheel wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's awesome, I'll link last.fm now then. I do have a suggestion, which may or may not be a terrible idea. If somebody does a perfect search for an artist, why not go directly to that artists page instead of a search page? If I type "Supertramp", I'm probably not looking for a genre or album by that name. I suppose it could have adverse effects in corner cases (common sounding artist names like "rock" maybe?), but…

If we find an exact match, we should feature the artist above the song results. Not exactly going straight to the artist's page, but just one click away. It does seem to work for me for "Supertramp" http://cl.ly/image/0S253x0J3p2v I wrote about half that feature and I made extra sure that something like "rock" should highlight the Rock genre and "kid rock" should highlight the artist and "party rock" should highlight…

Oh I see, I figured Artists were just listed above songs. I didn't realize it made guesses about your search. Okay, cool, that's neat. I guess you guys opted to show search results in all cases even if you were pretty sure you knew what the person was looking for - which is fair.

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by ccozan »

thomaslutz wrote: post #16

And still not available in Germany anymore thanks to GEMA. I use Spotify now.

works just fine with proxies ( see xroxy ). Listening right now to it, from the very Germany.

Same with youtube, etc. GEMA cannot enforce this at all, just normal people are collateral victims, as usual.

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