1y ago

Who misses Grooveshark ?

I used to work at Grooveshark back in the day designing and building ads and themes for the site.. Boy, did miss the culture and product and community sometimes

some screenshots from the dev days, my cloud app account seems like most of the files no longer accessible:

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Heard of FunkWhale? The open source, federated audio platform?
https://funkwhale.audio/
I hope that it gets to be as good abd popular as GrooveShark was.
also !funkwhale
- thank you for sharing! will dive deep into this tonight

I was heartbroken when Grooveshark went away. I'd built up so much music and there was a lot of obscure stuff I've never found again.
- agreed - lost a major discovery engine when it shut down

I know it's not exactly the same, but take a look at https://funkwhale.audio/. A bit like grooveshark for the Fediverse. Maybe this could ease the heartbreak a bit?
- https://lemmy.world/u/testman@lemmy.ml also mentioned this and im suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper curious - will def dive deep into this one - thank you thank you thank you for sharing!
  
  Happy to help! Please let us know what you think about it after your deep dive.
  Love to browse pods for obscure (mostly electronic) music and the community is very warm and welcoming in my experience.
  I have yet to finda podcast that captivates me.
  Would love to hear your opinion (and maybe some gems you found) on #Funkwhale !

I just remember using some sort of downloader for Grooveshark.

I was really bummed when I couldn't even log in to copy down what was in my playlists. I have most of those songs in my Spotify now but I know I missed some.

It was a pretty cool music platform. I was sorry to see it go but given the circumstances there wasn't much choice. It's a pity, it could have probably transitioned into a legit music service. The interface was nice and it had some unique features.
From what I remember the thing that sunk it (when it was inevitably sued) was the fact the boss had made all the employees share mp3's to help the platform take off.
- it got sued into oblivion while youtube, who was being sued for the same reason, was bought by google and thus the major labels dropped their lawsuits against them..

Grooveshark was the source of playlists for me, much better than the inferior fratmusic

Site was awesome. you could find music that wasnt available anywhere else at the time. It was almost my only source for online music until it died.
- hell yea - love to read this

I remember one of the first YouTube videos I made was how to download music from grooeshark. Good times (also don't steal 😉)
- wonder if I watched it
  
  May have. It was like 15 years ago or something like that.

Yeah, better than current-day streaming services,I liked the radio feature
- oh hell yea! collaborative playlists was my fave

Haven’t heard of it before, looks cool though!
- it was spotify, before spotify. one of the first HTML5 audio player services with a business model closer to youtube than most other streaming services

It was very nice
- the community was super strong in particular too
  
  Yeah, there was a music channel where I'd hang out all day with people who I never saw again when it abruptly shut down. Sad day.

Loved it! Even remember having a Grooveshark t-shirt at one point. I migrated to Google Music and then eventually Spotify after Google effectively ruined that.
- I miss the original Google music so much 😮‍💨
- hell yea! i still kept all my grooveshark shirts, got like 10-15 still lol. i did similar with an stint of torrenting for years. >< last.fm for tracking

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