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Tafdolphin wrote:

degoose wrote:

Tafdolphin wrote:I take it everyone's moving over to Grooveshark now then?

http://grooveshark.com/

never heard of it before but im giving it a go

update: it's really really good , thanks Taf

It's great: no audio ads (or any interruptions to your music at all in fact), it's all done in-browser, there's at least as much music as Spotify...about the only disadvantage I can see is that you need to jailbreak to get the iPhone app (which I'm not fussed about).

Why anyone would pay for Spotify Unlimited over this I have no idea.

Think you answered your own question, fella.

Grooveshark is in a legal grey area though, unlike Spotify. Plus the sound quality ranges from good to abysmal, because it's all user uploads.

Ginga wrote:

Tafdolphin wrote:

degoose wrote:

Tafdolphin wrote:I take it everyone's moving over to Grooveshark now then?

http://grooveshark.com/

never heard of it before but im giving it a go

update: it's really really good , thanks Taf

It's great: no audio ads (or any interruptions to your music at all in fact), it's all done in-browser, there's at least as much music as Spotify...about the only disadvantage I can see is that you need to jailbreak to get the iPhone app (which I'm not fussed about).

Why anyone would pay for Spotify Unlimited over this I have no idea.

Think you answered your own question, fella.

Spotify Unlimited (£5 p/month) does not give you access to your songs on mobile devices. That's Spotify Premium (£10 p/month).

Suck it.

Do you have to stream the music on Grooveshark?

pyxl-8 wrote:Do you have to stream the music on Grooveshark?

As far as I know yes. But isn't that the same as Spotify?

Spotify lets you have 3,333 songs downloaded at any one time for offline play.

Considering I use it for my car radio, that's the biggest selling point in the whole service.

pyxl-8 wrote:Spotify lets you have 3,333 songs downloaded at any one time for offline play.

Considering I use it for my car radio, that's the biggest selling point in the whole service.

Again, that's Spotify Premium. Grooveshark is a perfect free alternative to the paid-for ad free Spotify Unlimited but doesn't have the features of Premium, at least not for free.

I was trying to decipher what the premium Grooveshark services actually were, but I honestly can't from their website.

If it's user uploaded tracks, though, it's already failed for me. strawberry float, I might as well just torrent some MP3s.

Grooveshark seems like an alright alternative to the free Spotify, but it's a bit of a headache trying to simply search for an album and play it. The tracks all seemed to be jumbled up and shared among other albums.

I also tried searching an artist in playlists, to find a playlist that contains that artist along with similar artists (thus discovering new music) but everytime I searched it would just return hundreds of playlists that feature nothing but that artist's entire discography. If they fix the first issue of not listing albums properly then people wouldn't have to make those sort of playlists.

Tafdolphin wrote:

Ginga wrote:

Tafdolphin wrote:

degoose wrote:

Tafdolphin wrote:I take it everyone's moving over to Grooveshark now then?

http://grooveshark.com/

never heard of it before but im giving it a go

update: it's really really good , thanks Taf

It's great: no audio ads (or any interruptions to your music at all in fact), it's all done in-browser, there's at least as much music as Spotify...about the only disadvantage I can see is that you need to jailbreak to get the iPhone app (which I'm not fussed about).

Why anyone would pay for Spotify Unlimited over this I have no idea.

Think you answered your own question, fella.

Spotify Unlimited (£5 p/month) does not give you access to your songs on mobile devices. That's Spotify Premium (£10 p/month).

Suck it.

Ahh, okay! I haven't really kept a tab on the different plans, so didn't quite notice. I've just been paying a tenner a month from about day one and it works perfectly for me.

satriales wrote:Grooveshark seems like an alright alternative to the free Spotify, but it's a bit of a headache trying to simply search for an album and play it. The tracks all seemed to be jumbled up and shared among other albums.

I also tried searching an artist in playlists, to find a playlist that contains that artist along with similar artists (thus discovering new music) but everytime I searched it would just return hundreds of playlists that feature nothing but that artist's entire discography. If they fix the first issue of not listing albums properly then people wouldn't have to make those sort of playlists.

I've been using it for the last few hours and it's a bit of a clusterfuck. It's not that intuitive - the number of times I've added multiple songs to a playlist because I was trying to get them to play was a bit annoying. It can't help that it's browser based but it's clunkier than Spotify.

Hopefully they'll adapt it and streamline the service in the future.

We7 is pretty OK, I've been using that.

Thanks for the Grooveshark recommendation. It's got everything that was on my old playlists, except for one track, which I'll have to find elsewhere.

strawberry float off Spotify, you diseased has-been.

The company is extending many of its premium services, including an iPhone and iPod app, to non-paying members.

Ginga wrote:

The company is extending many of its premium services, including an iPhone and iPod app, to non-paying members.

Interesting

But worthless if you can't play them offline.

Mafro wrote:

Ginga wrote:

The company is extending many of its premium services, including an iPhone and iPod app, to non-paying members.

Interesting

But worthless if you can't play them offline.

Is that a Premium feature? Because you can do it.

I think so. Where did you hear that info?

It's on BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13273135

Just downloaded the iPhone app. If you don't have a premium account then you can only use your own music with offline playlists, which pretty much defeats the whole purpose of the thing for me. Shite.

I've been paying £10 a month for spotify for the last 6 months and it's by far the best and most worth it app I have on my iPhone.

rinks wrote:Thanks for the Grooveshark recommendation. It's got everything that was on my old playlists, except for one track, which I'll have to find elsewhere.

strawberry float off Spotify, you diseased has-been.

Indeed. What they are yet to realise is that there are always free alternatives when they see the dollar signs. Cheers for the recommendation Taf.

Plus they have Metallica and AC/DC. Win.