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What's your shirt size? We'll send you a t-shirt (or a few!) if you're willing to try our service. And actually, I'll extend this offer to any HN reader/user.

by physcab 17y ago

What's your shirt size? We'll send you a t-shirt (or a few!) if you're willing to try our service. And actually, I'll extend this offer to any HN reader/user. Chris from Grooveshark.

steveplace 17y ago
dibs. I'm a large. Huge fan of your service, great way to get a hold of obscure music fast. Haven't built out my playlists yet though Finally tracked down a song I've been looking for since I stopped using my old creative zen player: http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Sasha_s_Voyage_Of_Ima/1597983 http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Sasha_s_Voyage_Of_Ima/1...
- physcab 17y ago
  We do have quite a bit of obscure music. For sharing songs, you might want to check out our URL shortener, TinySong.com (we have other sharing features on the songs themselves in the Info pane). You can also utilize our API if you'd like to do cool stuff with our library.
ericwaller 17y ago
Hey Chris, I'm a huge fan of Grooveshark, and it's cool to see you guys on HN. I do have one suggestion for you though: autoplay is a great feature, but it took me a long time to realize the button was even there. If there's a way to make it more prominent I think that would help.
- physcab 17y ago
  Hey, we're all huge fans of HN. Great community. Thanks for your suggestion about Autoplay. This will be fixed in our upcoming product launch. If you want a sneak peak, check out preview.grooveshark.com.
joshhart 17y ago
Grooveshark's awesome! Hopefully I can come visit you guys the next time I'm back in Gainesville.
- physcab 17y ago
  Thanks! Visit anytime. We're right next to the Hippodrome on the 2nd floor above Dragonfly. If you walk out on the ledge until you hear Skyler pounding on his 1980's style IBM keyboard, you've found Grooveshark.
pwmanagerdied 17y ago
Checked it out after reading this post, and I'm damn impressed. It seems to have everything I can think of, and the quality's sweet. One question, though: I'm located in Canadian, and lots of streaming services including Pandora and others I was interested in using either didn't offer service outside of the states or stopped offering it once they hit a certain size. Is that going to be the case with your service as well? If not, I'm probably hooked. Thanks. PS: If you'd be willing to toss a shirt up north of the border, I'm a medium.
- physcab 17y ago
  We fully intend on offering a worldwide service. There are many factors involved of course with providing that type of coverage (some technical, some legal). But know that we are keeping our international users in mind as we negotiate contracts and develop our products. I'll be happy to toss up a shirt up North (my e-mail is in my profile). We get them made by American Apparel and they are quite comfy. I've been wearing mine all week and I think my co-workers are starting to demand a change.
cmars232 17y ago
Grooveshark looks nice! Pandora's been recycling the same songs too much for my tastes lately, and I'm getting bored with it. I also wish I could easily access the "station logs" later. I like the fair use policy on the copyrights page a lot. Are you really going to be able to let users drive to the exact song they want to hear, even after critical mass builds up? Seems too good to be true. I always assumed that was how Pandora managed to keep the heat off (by not letting users pick the exact song when they want to hear it).
- physcab 17y ago
  Thanks! Our new version is even nicer :) You can go to preview.grooveshark.com to check it out. To answer your question, yes, we will always have a search-and-discover interface because that is where our real value comes from. As far as critical mass is concerned, we are doubling about every 2-3 months with absolutely no marketing or PR (which is why you don't hear about us on TechCrunch very often). We've got a lot of work ahead of us in terms of scaling to meet demand, but so far we're handling it well.
GavinB 17y ago
I signed up for Grooveshark a while back, but I've really been trying it today and I'm loving it. Bonus points for having a song that my $15/mo subscription service doesn't!
- physcab 17y ago
  Awesome! Thats the plan. E-mail me if you'd like a shirt. :)

by physcab 17y ago

What's your shirt size? We'll send you a t-shirt (or a few!) if you're willing to try our service. And actually, I'll extend this offer to any HN reader/user. Chris from Grooveshark.

steveplace 17y ago

dibs. I'm a large. Huge fan of your service, great way to get a hold of obscure music fast. Haven't built out my playlists yet though Finally tracked down a song I've been looking for since I stopped using my old creative zen player: http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Sasha_s_Voyage_Of_Ima/1597983 http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Sasha_s_Voyage_Of_Ima/1...

physcab 17y ago
We do have quite a bit of obscure music. For sharing songs, you might want to check out our URL shortener, TinySong.com (we have other sharing features on the songs themselves in the Info pane). You can also utilize our API if you'd like to do cool stuff with our library.

ericwaller 17y ago

Hey Chris, I'm a huge fan of Grooveshark, and it's cool to see you guys on HN. I do have one suggestion for you though: autoplay is a great feature, but it took me a long time to realize the button was even there. If there's a way to make it more prominent I think that would help.

physcab 17y ago
Hey, we're all huge fans of HN. Great community. Thanks for your suggestion about Autoplay. This will be fixed in our upcoming product launch. If you want a sneak peak, check out preview.grooveshark.com.

joshhart 17y ago

Grooveshark's awesome! Hopefully I can come visit you guys the next time I'm back in Gainesville.

physcab 17y ago
Thanks! Visit anytime. We're right next to the Hippodrome on the 2nd floor above Dragonfly. If you walk out on the ledge until you hear Skyler pounding on his 1980's style IBM keyboard, you've found Grooveshark.

pwmanagerdied 17y ago

Checked it out after reading this post, and I'm damn impressed. It seems to have everything I can think of, and the quality's sweet. One question, though: I'm located in Canadian, and lots of streaming services including Pandora and others I was interested in using either didn't offer service outside of the states or stopped offering it once they hit a certain size. Is that going to be the case with your service as well? If not, I'm probably hooked. Thanks. PS: If you'd be willing to toss a shirt up north of the border, I'm a medium.

physcab 17y ago
We fully intend on offering a worldwide service. There are many factors involved of course with providing that type of coverage (some technical, some legal). But know that we are keeping our international users in mind as we negotiate contracts and develop our products. I'll be happy to toss up a shirt up North (my e-mail is in my profile). We get them made by American Apparel and they are quite comfy. I've been wearing mine all week and I think my co-workers are starting to demand a change.

cmars232 17y ago

Grooveshark looks nice! Pandora's been recycling the same songs too much for my tastes lately, and I'm getting bored with it. I also wish I could easily access the "station logs" later. I like the fair use policy on the copyrights page a lot. Are you really going to be able to let users drive to the exact song they want to hear, even after critical mass builds up? Seems too good to be true. I always assumed that was how Pandora managed to keep the heat off (by not letting users pick the exact song when they want to hear it).

physcab 17y ago
Thanks! Our new version is even nicer :) You can go to preview.grooveshark.com to check it out. To answer your question, yes, we will always have a search-and-discover interface because that is where our real value comes from. As far as critical mass is concerned, we are doubling about every 2-3 months with absolutely no marketing or PR (which is why you don't hear about us on TechCrunch very often). We've got a lot of work ahead of us in terms of scaling to meet demand, but so far we're handling it well.

GavinB 17y ago

I signed up for Grooveshark a while back, but I've really been trying it today and I'm loving it. Bonus points for having a song that my $15/mo subscription service doesn't!

physcab 17y ago
Awesome! Thats the plan. E-mail me if you'd like a shirt. :)