Grooveshark, I think I love you
Thrax
🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
The never-ending supply of sites claiming to offer free, quality, streaming music has left us with a string of corpses. Sites like Muxtape were killed by recording studios and Pandora (praise be) appears to be on its last legs. It seems that between the rising costs of streaming and licensing behavior that can best be described as erratic, my favorite repositories are fixing to shove off or have a... Continue reading
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Love me some grooveshark though. I run sharkbyte on my Mac every once in awhile, so I can access that library of music from anywhere. It's brilliant to be able to import video at work and listen to my library of music from home. It's the only thing that's replaced Pandora frequently for me at work.
The music you find on Grooveshark actually relies on the uploads of users through sharkbyte and other methods. Every song you stream is the possession of a user out there somewhere. This generates a unique mix of regular, rare, live, and bootleg tracks. If you can't find it on Grooveshark, you probably can't find it on the internet.
I've recently been getting into indie, experimental and advant garde genres. A few of my friends keep telling me to 'check out so-and-so band', and Grooveshark is the sole way I've been able to do this and aquire a new taste in music.
I mean, where else can I go on the internet and listen to a playlist that has the Swedish Melodic death metal goodness of Opeth and then immediately move onto the wailing dissonance of Spencer Krug with Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, and/or Frog Eyes?
The internet has single handedly opened a massive new breadth of musical taste to me, and bands are profiting as a result. That's a beautiful thing.
So when I listen to a song it is actually streamed from someone else's computer?
Is creating an account give you more options flexability?
The client sounds nice, I'll look into it.
Good find.
cheers
No.:)
I'm not entirely sure of where the stream source comes from. I know that I don't keep sharkbyte running 24/7 on my mac (I'm one of those system resource perfectionists, it's why I stopped using Raptr) but I can still access my music even when sharkbyte/my Macbook are both shut down.
Perhaps it's all pointer based? Redirecting to other machines as necessary... or perhaps they're creating a MASSIVE database of music.
I'm sure it's simple, I just haven't looked into the how.
As for an account, I recommend it. You can favorite songs you find, and they've got a very nice recommendation engine (not unlike Pandora) that'll save your tastes. It feels like a much more robust Pandora to me.
Mention Grooveshark in Campfire one morning and suddenly there's an article about it. I think I learned about it from Lynx, too. Don't forget to Sharkbyte if you're going to use it consistently. Sharing is caring!
How in the world did it show up on my New Posts list?
Argh.
Pages can't just magically appear on new posts and hot threads without user intervention.
I am t3h sux.