Grooveshark (Spotify clone)
 

I found this great site called Grooveshark:
http://listen.grooveshark.com

It's a spotify clone that works through your browser, and it has a extensive music database. The load up to the music is not that quick to be honest, but once you find the music you like(you can also make an account to save playlists I think) they'll play perfectly.

So again the browser comes to aid and us cheap people don't have to become premium members to get to use spotify on our devices :)

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this is great find..thanx

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Yeah, this is a very cool site! A native maemo app would be nice... nudge nudge

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I had this app on my winmo phone. Love how you put in an artist or song name and it pulled right up and played it!

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This is one of those things I'd love to have an app for. Usually I love to not have app for stuff if you can use it through browser (gmail for example), but as that site is so heavy having a app to use it would be great.

Though I'm really hoping Nokia would transform it's music store in to something like this. I'd be willing to pay for that like spotify.

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I would very much like a native app for grooveshark since the website is very heavy on flash and cpu.

I know that there is a working plugin for moovida (former elisa) that I have tried on my laptop.

It is somewhat unpolished but it is working. Some functions are not working. But the most important search and play - are there. Since it is a thirdparty plugin I think it would be possible to implement in the n900 to. Either as a standalone app or as a plugin to the mediaplayer.

But I have no coding-skills what-so-everrr... :rolleyes:

The launchpad for the plugin launchpad account.

After swiftly checking the file it seems to mostly be some python files so coders, please check. ASAP :D

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Another sort of spotify clone is http://www.we7.com which is much lighter to load than grooveshark and works perfectly on my n900. Similar to grooveshark, you can create a login to creat playlists etc.

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we7 just doesn't have a big library like grooveshark. Can find lots of Finnish music on grooveshark for example but not on we7. So guess I'll use grooveshark when I happen to listen to finnish music and we7 otherwise :)

cheers

Grooveshark plugin, is it doable?
 

Anybody there? Hate to nag, but has anybody checked the grooveshark plugin I mentioned above?

I myself would find it sickly usefull to be able to search for any song in the mediaplayer - and have it delivered to me, no hassle - no flash. In the summer I have a lot of spare time, but not now. Can some skilled person skim through the code in the link above and tell me if it's doable?

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Would be cool but we have spotify, why do we need this. except its free.

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Well, free, and most important different catalogue. You find music on grooveshark that you don't find on spotify. :cool: And I do think that grooveshark is supported in more countries than spotify.

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Yeah would think something free would be a pretty big incentive?

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those are all nice finds.. I recommend another one that's actually a search engine for music and allows you to download too. Go to: http://musica.ginio.com

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never works on mine... problems logging in and/or synching playlists, basically unusable...

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Hey guys,

I work for Grooveshark so I thought I could jump in and answer some questions and address some misconceptions. :)

First, Grooveshark is hardly a Spotify clone, we've been around longer than they have but unlike them we aren't spending millions of dollars on marketing blitzes, so you may have heard of them earlier. :P

Anyway, probably more interesting to maemo users is the fact that we are building a new client in flash optimized for mobile hardware. The development is moving along quickly because we're able to reuse a lot of the code we wrote for the main site, so I don't expect there to be a really long wait like there is for the Symbian and Winmo clients.

This new client is designed to use as little memory as possible and to fit nicely on smaller screens. We currently have a couple of mobile phones running flash 10.1 that we're testing with. Unfortunately we haven't been able to get our hands on an N900 yet, but we hope to have one soon. If/when we do I'll report here on how it's working out.

Thanks for the interest in Grooveshark. :)

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Good to hear, during this weekend I was actually trying for the 1st time to use the grooveshark main site with the n900.
It does work, but not very user friendly to use in the small screen, and also a bit slow.

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so, im the only one that search something and grooveshark stucks on n900? not a single result!

ill try again damnit

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Be careful there... N900 doesn't (yet) have flash 10 so can you also test with Flash 9 as well please?

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Oy, that stinks. Have they announced an ETA on getting Flash 10 to the N900? I will check to see if we are using any features that would require Flash 10.

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to enter this website we need a plugin ? cause it doesnt load to me
said that i need the latest flash software

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A port exists which has been submitted to Nokia by Adobe. So I would say probably with PR 1.2 when that is releaaed

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Any news about Grooveshark application for our beloved N900

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there is app groove in test/dev repos. It's not fully functional yet, but is usable for playing a few tracks & the interface is finger friendly.IIRC, you can however run grooveshark directly from the web in microB (with tweakflashplayer) - it takes ages to load from the initial screen(>30 sec) but thereafter the interface comes up OK?

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Thanks a lot. I have tried the application form extra-devel.
It doesnt work nicely. However it could be improved and can be a great application.

I will try the tweakflashplayer.

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grooveshark is now using a pure HTML5 interface on their new beta site (preview.grooveshark.com) ... it only accepts Chrome for now tho, but I wonder how well it'll work in microB.

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i just visited grooveshark & got offered the new interface (it told me I appeared to be using an old browser, but it offered me the option to revert to old version or continue with the new interface). good news is that it loads way quicker than old site and works pretty well with microB (screen layout not ideal but certainly usable)

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If it's not too much trouble, do try it out with N800 or N810 as well... it's an old device, but the big screen, wifi and cheap price would make it a great standalone grooveshark client for a stereo system.

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The Grooveshark app worked way much better
Too bad it doesn't work anymore for me :(

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Very interesting. Unfortunately no-one on the N900 seems to have cracked what makes Spotify actually worth paying for (offline sync of high-bitrate files), So I guess something like grooveshark would be better for people who continue to struggle to make the N900 work for media.

Any news of a standalone client (with offline sync?)

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This is the big thing. Offline support is what's worth paying. No adds is a tiny issue on the side. I like grooveshark as it has much better catalogue than spotify but without offline support it's still no go. I travel a lot and paying data roaming costs in order to stream music is bordering on imbecilic.

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Has anyone thought of trying to set up the grooveshark app for webOS using preenv?

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You need the other libraries afaik. I tried to look at it... it's not the same as the ones in the games