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Grooveshark is amazing. They have the best library out there hands down. Yes, they got it through piracy yadda yadda but they have more music than any of the le

by ashray 13y ago

Grooveshark is amazing. They have the best library out there hands down. Yes, they got it through piracy yadda yadda but they have more music than any of the legit services out there (I pay $9.99 for rdio per month..). The thing is that I can find label music on Grooveshark (iTunes top 500 sort of stuff) but I can also easily find the most obscure stuff you can think of. So fan remixes, and regional music (Indian music, Pakistani music, Lebanese music, etc. etc.). The other services out there have a LONG way to go to make that happen.

rcfox 13y ago
Grooveshark has great breadth, but lacks in depth. There are lots of types of music, but I find that they rarely have the specific artists that I'm looking for. (I mainly listen to power metal.) Also, there are a lot of tracks that finish prematurely, are just static, or simply don't play. I've tried flagging them as broken, but Grooveshark keeps adding them to my playlists. There are also tons of tagging issues (ie: there's one album under "Battle Beast" and another under "BATTLE BEAST" for the same band), making it difficult to find things sometimes. I agree, Grooveshark is the best one out there, but it's far from perfect.
- dsirijus 13y ago
  I had loads of fun sharing mistagged songs on Facebook, fishing for those "less in the known". My favorite mistag is "Freebird" by "Led Zeppelin". Also, I'm of firm belief no one ever fixes that, as I've reported loads. And that's ok with me. :)
- makomk 13y ago
  I'm curious which artists those are - Grooveshark seems to be fairly good compared to competing services in my experience.
Miyamoto 13y ago
YouTube is still the king of Internet music. I can find full length new releases of relatively unknown music on YouTube that I can't find anywhere else. The downsides of YouTube are quality control, and that as a playlist application it kind of sucks (compared to GrooveShark).
oinksoft 13y ago
I love Grooveshark but disagree that it's any good for finding obscure music. For instance, Rare Essence is the most popular Go Go (a DC genre) band of all time excluding Chuck Brown and his band (the Soul Searchers), Brown having created Go Go. If you aren't from DC then this probably sounds like nonsense, but you really can't underestimate how big these bands are in the city, along with Junkyard Band, Backyard Band, and the Northeast Groovers. For Chuck Brown, I see 21 songs. I have double albums of his with more songs than that. For Rare Essence, there are 17 songs, including a couple duplicates and a misattribution ("One Leg Up" is by Pure Elegance). BYB has 11 songs, NEG has 6, Junkyard has only one (!). These are very prolific bands that have produced tons of records sold in the DC area. The thing is, nobody ever really "pirated" Go Go music, that is, put it on the internet. Just lots of bootleg cassettes and CDs. I find Grooveshark to be limited to fairly mainstream and popular music, the kind that at one time or another could be found in record stores across the US/Europe or at least over a very large region within those places.
false 13y ago
I'm the developer of the project and I just hijacked the top comment! :) It's been a 2 years long ride. I used Backbone and Zepto on front end, jake for building and managing assets. App uses the same PHP backend as a desktop site. Ask me anything!

by ashray 13y ago

rcfox 13y ago

Grooveshark has great breadth, but lacks in depth. There are lots of types of music, but I find that they rarely have the specific artists that I'm looking for. (I mainly listen to power metal.) Also, there are a lot of tracks that finish prematurely, are just static, or simply don't play. I've tried flagging them as broken, but Grooveshark keeps adding them to my playlists. There are also tons of tagging issues (ie: there's one album under "Battle Beast" and another under "BATTLE BEAST" for the same band), making it difficult to find things sometimes. I agree, Grooveshark is the best one out there, but it's far from perfect.

dsirijus 13y ago
I had loads of fun sharing mistagged songs on Facebook, fishing for those "less in the known". My favorite mistag is "Freebird" by "Led Zeppelin". Also, I'm of firm belief no one ever fixes that, as I've reported loads. And that's ok with me. :)
makomk 13y ago
I'm curious which artists those are - Grooveshark seems to be fairly good compared to competing services in my experience.

Miyamoto 13y ago

YouTube is still the king of Internet music. I can find full length new releases of relatively unknown music on YouTube that I can't find anywhere else. The downsides of YouTube are quality control, and that as a playlist application it kind of sucks (compared to GrooveShark).

oinksoft 13y ago

I love Grooveshark but disagree that it's any good for finding obscure music. For instance, Rare Essence is the most popular Go Go (a DC genre) band of all time excluding Chuck Brown and his band (the Soul Searchers), Brown having created Go Go. If you aren't from DC then this probably sounds like nonsense, but you really can't underestimate how big these bands are in the city, along with Junkyard Band, Backyard Band, and the Northeast Groovers. For Chuck Brown, I see 21 songs. I have double albums of his with more songs than that. For Rare Essence, there are 17 songs, including a couple duplicates and a misattribution ("One Leg Up" is by Pure Elegance). BYB has 11 songs, NEG has 6, Junkyard has only one (!). These are very prolific bands that have produced tons of records sold in the DC area. The thing is, nobody ever really "pirated" Go Go music, that is, put it on the internet. Just lots of bootleg cassettes and CDs. I find Grooveshark to be limited to fairly mainstream and popular music, the kind that at one time or another could be found in record stores across the US/Europe or at least over a very large region within those places.

false 13y ago

I'm the developer of the project and I just hijacked the top comment! :) It's been a 2 years long ride. I used Backbone and Zepto on front end, jake for building and managing assets. App uses the same PHP backend as a desktop site. Ask me anything!