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The New Grooveshark

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Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by pwf »

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 Android app manages to get stuck buffering a song nearly every time I use it, even on a wifi connection. The widget on my homescreen still has a spinning circle instead of a play button even though I killed the app after it got stuck days ago.

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by zoowar »

When I visit the site from firefox I receive an SELinux notice. "SELinux is preventing /usr/lib64/xulrunner-2/plugin-container from name_connect access on the tcp_socket" [for port 81]

Also, my firewall is blocking the app from connecting to 8.20.213.43:843

Re: The New Grooveshark

#83

Post by wanderr »

krsunny wrote: post #76
wanderr wrote: post #51

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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.

No way! We just put a ton of blood, sweat and tears into it, and we're not done. :)

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by blueys54 »

jasonkester wrote: post #80
cowpewter wrote: post #36

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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…

Hey Jason thanks for the feedback!

Queue Feedback: You're right that we need some queue adding feedback and we've been trying to find a way to go about it that won't prove to annoying to the user. Next week you should see a small popup above the queue count every time you add :)

Dragging: We're trying to figure out what page you were trying to drag song from. Many of the pages/grids are draggable but we still have a few places left to implement it.

Was it the Community page by chance? We'll be adding the ability to drag from there, hopefully by the end of the month.

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by wanderr »

fireflash38 wrote: post #73
sergiotapia wrote: post #55

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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.

We restrict uploads to a minimum of 128kbps and prefer 192kbps if it's available. It is of course possible for someone to transcode a 64kbps file up to 128 or 192kbps to make us play something that truly sounds awful, but based on my own personal listening that doesn't seem to be the case often, if ever, in practice.

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by wanderr »

zoowar wrote: post #82

When I visit the site from firefox I receive an SELinux notice. "SELinux is preventing /usr/lib64/xulrunner-2/plugin-container from name_connect access on the tcp_socket" [for port 81] Also, my firewall is blocking the app from connecting to 8.20.213.43:843

Not sure about port 843, but port 81 is for our chat server that allows you to see realtime updates to the sidebar showing what your friends are listening to. We will probably end up moving that over to port 80 so we don't end up triggering blocks like this.

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by wanderr »

johnx123-up wrote: post #6
zobzu wrote: post #3

my fav ui is still html5.grooveshark.com tho

My Android keeps auto stopping after current song... probably, due to screen power saving(?)

Yeah unfortunately this is a browser thing. We are actively searching for hacks/workarounds but haven't found anything yet. In fact it's even worse with the Chrome browser, music stops playing the second you lock the screen. :(

Re: The New Grooveshark

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Post by jasonkester »

blueys54 wrote: post #85
jasonkester wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Hey Jason thanks for the feedback! Queue Feedback: You're right that we need some queue adding feedback and we've been trying to find a way to go about it that won't prove to annoying to the user. Next week you should see a small popup above the queue count every time you add :) Dragging: We're trying to figure out what page you were trying to drag song from. Many of the pages/grids are draggable but we still have a…

I was dragging from the homepage. It seemed to happen more often when I was scrolled down a bit, but overall about half my drag attempts dragged whereas the other half selected.

You can reproduce the select effect by simply missing an icon when you start your drag. Now imagine that happening when you were directly over one.

All the best. As I said before, this is a massive improvement on the original. I'll actually use this site.

Re: The New Grooveshark

#90

Post by tkone »

cowpewter wrote: post #37
Axsuul wrote: post #31

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Did you ever look into using something like LayoutManager or Marionette?

No, after JMVC I just wanted to write it to work the way we wanted it to work without dealing with yet another framework.

+1. I was using marionette, but again, it's buying into an entire system. I ended up writing my own lightweight (15 lines?) version of their region manager and use that now.

(Marionette is a great project though!)

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