The New Grooveshark • Hacker News Board

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by alainbryden » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 2:58 PM UTC

I'm a frequent user, and I am really liking this design. Change is always a little difficult to get used to, but I'm finding it snappier.

The "Playlists" screen doesn't seem to be working. I tried visiting it and the spinner's been going for a long time. I only have about 20. I also right clicked a song and clicked 'Add to Playlist' > 'New Playlist' and it said it was created, but when I right clicked another song, the new playlist wasn't available in the list of my playlists. I said 'New Playlist' again and typed in the same thing, and it created it again. I clicked the button to view the new playlist and it only had the one song in it, so it must have overwritten what I'd just created. Dragging songs into the playlist is working fine, but I have no idea if it's getting saved, since I can't view the "My Playlists" page, and it's not showing up in the context menu listing my playlists. Anyways, hope this helps you do some debugging in the area.

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by pixie_ » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 4:48 PM UTC

How grooveshark remains in business blows my mind. They must have super lawyers, and super investors to pay them.

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by fireflash38 » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 5:08 PM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #55

alan_cx wrote: post #35

Never used the site before, I gave it a go. What I wanted to find, I could not find. What I did find, the sound quality was, to me, awful. Maybe its just my taste in music and ears, but for me, still a long way to go.

Yes, you need a 90MB FLAC file to hear all those "decibels bro". http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/concluding-the-grea... http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/04/mp3-or-lossless-see-if-...

While yes, that is true, it doesn't necessarily apply to this circumstance. The person you replied to might have played a song by an artist that was an inferior copy uploaded by another user.

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by mrinterweb » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 5:11 PM UTC

The only feature I was looking for was "Now with less legal issues". I have used Grooveshark a lot, but songs would keep disappearing due to DMCA take downs. They have a very innovative HTML5 web app and I love their selection, but there is a little too much legal grey ground for me to invest my long term usage in their service.

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by invisible » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 5:26 PM UTC

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.

We definitely need to get to the pushState change but #! is the way to go for being indexed properly without pushState (via _escaped_fragment_).

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by krsunny » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 5:58 PM UTC

wanderr wrote: post #51

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…

GS dev here, you should be grandfathered at the old price, if that's not the case for you then we goofed! If you contact support@grooveshark.com they should be able to get that corrected for you. :)

Is html5.grooveshark.com going away any time soon? Ive been using that for a while on my phone and it works pretty good.

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by invisible » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 6:01 PM UTC

grosbisou wrote: post #45

I love Grooveshark and this redesign is really nice. It clears out a lot of the menu and features. But the MyMusic page is really messy... I hope it's a bug because it's barely usable ( http://i.imgur.com/TAzxG.jpg )

This looks to be a zoom bug. We're looking into a fix for this!

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by invisible » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 6:02 PM UTC

risratorn wrote: post #23

Too bad they can't get their iOS app through the apple approval process. It would be a serious contender to Spotify.

Give http://html5.grooveshark.com a try (or just http://grooveshark.com on your phone)!

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by invisible » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 6:04 PM UTC

meunier wrote: post #64

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.

This is definitely a missing feature/bug - we'll address it as soon as possible.

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by jasonkester » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 6:47 PM UTC

cowpewter wrote: post #36

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…

If you're currently listening to a song and you hit play on another song, it should queue up the second song to play when the first finishes. When you started playing the first song, also, the queue should have opened up at the bottom to show a list of the songs, and if you wanted to skip to the second song you could either hit the next button or the play button in the second song in the list. http://cl.ly/image/3904…

When you click on a playlist, it seems to drop about 20 songs into that queue, completely filling the bottom of the browser window. So clicking another song gives precisely no feedback.

I imagine it's happily dropping an icon off the screen someplace, but there's no evidence of it. Unless you happen to open the aforementioned "queue" box and see that the number has changed.

Incidentally, I notice that the box at the bottom says "drag music here." On Win7/Chrome, attempting to drag a song usually just selects the entire page. I gave up on trying until coming back here and seeing people talking about that ability. I'd recommend getting an onselectstart handler onto that page.