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RIP Grooveshark.com (1 Viewer)

But they had to have known they were streaming pirated music. That wasn't a mistake, it was on purpose.

 
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i had multiple playlists of some really cool #### on that set aside. I'd use it on trips through my droid and bluetooth to my car stereo, or listen in my office at work. I liked that it had a LOT of obscure stuff on it, with some searching you could find most anything. I also liked that you might find multiple versions of a song, and you could find the one that had the best sound quality and put that in your queue. Oh well.

if you click the link i posted its about the most defeated sounding apology ever issued by corporation. The text wasn't cut/paste-able or else I would have posted it.

 
Found this out today as well. Grooveshark was my go-to streaming site: totally free W/O having to give your email addy, or any other personal info, full songs, make your own playlists. I'm not aware of another service that offers that combo....

 
audiophile said:
Found this out today as well. Grooveshark was my go-to streaming site: totally free W/O having to give your email addy, or any other personal info, full songs, make your own playlists. I'm not aware of another service that offers that combo....
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Maybe because it's illegal?

 
It was illegal because groovshark didnt pay for it, not because people used it. You couldn't download songs like Napster, it was like pandora but you could choose all your songs and save your own playlists

 
tommyboy said:
i had multiple playlists of some really cool #### on that set aside. I'd use it on trips through my droid and bluetooth to my car stereo, or listen in my office at work. I liked that it had a LOT of obscure stuff on it, with some searching you could find most anything. I also liked that you might find multiple versions of a song, and you could find the one that had the best sound quality and put that in your queue. Oh well.

if you click the link i posted its about the most defeated sounding apology ever issued by corporation. The text wasn't cut/paste-able or else I would have posted it.
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I'm guessing that "we're sorry that we are terrible people, check out these other reasonably priced options" statement probably saved them a few bucks in the settlement

 
Super bummed to learn this today...have been using it for years and had a pretty extensive set of songs and playlists set up. Not a week goes by I didn't listen to it for a few hours at work. Who's moving to what? I tried Spotify for a couple of weeks but it was the most annoying and intrusive app I'd ever installed.

 
jason12vb said:
Super bummed to learn this today...have been using it for years and had a pretty extensive set of songs and playlists set up. Not a week goes by I didn't listen to it for a few hours at work. Who's moving to what? I tried Spotify for a couple of weeks but it was the most annoying and intrusive app I'd ever installed.
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there's not much like it for free. I have sirius XM so I just use that now for background music in my office. no more custom playlists thgouh.

 
jason12vb said:
Super bummed to learn this today...have been using it for years and had a pretty extensive set of songs and playlists set up. Not a week goes by I didn't listen to it for a few hours at work. Who's moving to what? I tried Spotify for a couple of weeks but it was the most annoying and intrusive app I'd ever installed.
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Why? The ads? How else do you expect them to properly pay the artists for their music that you're consuming. You can pay $9/mo and avoid the ads while still properly compensating the musicians for their art.

 
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jason12vb said:
Super bummed to learn this today...have been using it for years and had a pretty extensive set of songs and playlists set up. Not a week goes by I didn't listen to it for a few hours at work. Who's moving to what? I tried Spotify for a couple of weeks but it was the most annoying and intrusive app I'd ever installed.
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Why? The ads? How else do you expect them to properly pay the artists for their music that you're consuming. You can pay $9/mo and avoid the ads while still properly compensating the musicians for their art.
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Ads do not bother me...I understand they need to make money to keep the service alive.

This was probably 24-30 month ago so things could very well have changed and I'm not going to have specifics, but with the desktop client I was constantly getting alerts and pop-ups that I couldn't rid myself of....and not just inside the app, when it wasn't running. Literally every time I used my laptop something related to Spotify required interaction. Both my wife and I felt like it was ridiculously non-intuitive interface and while we're not teenagers anymore, we're not exactly out of the loop either. (She was then 27 and pretty tech savy, I was then 34 and am an IT professional). We both didn't appreciate how often it posted crap to Facebook either and were annoyed by the amount of Facebook garbage we were inundated with...but I don't use FB anymore, so that piece I don't care about.

All these qualms could have been rectified by spending some time in the app and getting used to it...but as someone who already spends 10-12 hours a day at work on a computer the last thing I want to do is go home and muddle my way through a non-intuitive interface.

 
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