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Let me just say I love your program and use it daily, but... I recently just let the trial period on the mobile version (ios jb) lapse without buying a subscri

Let me just say I love your program and use it daily, but... I recently just let the trial period on the mobile version (ios jb) lapse without buying a subscription. While I love the idea, and I love the app itself, the music quality simply isn't there. Now, I know the bandwidth limitations that come with 3g, and I know the quality is as high as you can get it, but it's just not good enough. Which makes me think that you guys might be peaking too soon. I can't see you making money off free web users with your (thankfully) unobtrusive ads, I don't see any real reason to pay to use the web version, and I don't see mobile infrastructure being fast enough to support you there, where it seems your real prime usage case is. Even if Google and Apple weren't booting you off their platform, how would you survive long enough that you could deliver the same quality music through my phone that I already have on my phone?

invisible 16y ago
There is a setting to choose better quality songs. The default is to prefer lower quality songs. Also, you can offline songs on mobile devices for playing later.
- jamesbritt 16y ago
  Also, you can offline songs on mobile devices for playing later. For some songs. Other song have given me a "not available on mobile" (or something to that effect) message. But those songs are not available at any quality.
britta 16y ago
A different experience - I recently tried out Grooveshark on my jailbroken iPhone, and I liked it. The interface is nice and clever, the music quality was fine (I was listening over WiFi though), the radio-style recommendations were decent. I'm just not a big enough music consumer to sign up for the $9/month service; I'm usually happy with my existing music library and if I want to listen to a couple new things I often just use YouTube on my computer. I'd recommend it to friends who wanted a subscription service though.
- redthrowaway 16y ago
  Thing is, if I have wifi, there's no need for a mobile app. I almost always have my laptop on me, and am more than content to listen with that. Grooveshark mobile makes the promise of any music, anywhere, any time. That's awesome, and is the one thing I could see paying an admittedly steep subscription for. It just didn't deliver well enough for me.

invisible 16y ago

There is a setting to choose better quality songs. The default is to prefer lower quality songs. Also, you can offline songs on mobile devices for playing later.

jamesbritt 16y ago
Also, you can offline songs on mobile devices for playing later. For some songs. Other song have given me a "not available on mobile" (or something to that effect) message. But those songs are not available at any quality.

britta 16y ago

A different experience - I recently tried out Grooveshark on my jailbroken iPhone, and I liked it. The interface is nice and clever, the music quality was fine (I was listening over WiFi though), the radio-style recommendations were decent. I'm just not a big enough music consumer to sign up for the $9/month service; I'm usually happy with my existing music library and if I want to listen to a couple new things I often just use YouTube on my computer. I'd recommend it to friends who wanted a subscription service though.

redthrowaway 16y ago
Thing is, if I have wifi, there's no need for a mobile app. I almost always have my laptop on me, and am more than content to listen with that. Grooveshark mobile makes the promise of any music, anywhere, any time. That's awesome, and is the one thing I could see paying an admittedly steep subscription for. It just didn't deliver well enough for me.