Grooveshark comes to webOS 48
While there are all sorts of streaming music apps available for the Palm Pre (Pandora and Slacker, to name two), there’s one more service has made its presence known on webOS: Grooveshark. Their app, as demoed above, leverages Grooveshark’s popular and powerful recommendation engine to find other music you might like. Like Pandora you can rate a song up or down (smile or frown, in Grooveshark lingo), but you can also save playlists and songs for later repeat listening and sharing with other users.
What makes Grooveshark truly unique, however, is that users can upload their own content to the service. Like YouTube, you can upload whatever music or other audio you want (from your desktop, of course - that’d be too much for webOS) to Grooveshark. What makes this cool is that you can upload your own music collection to Grooveshark and listen to it from wherever you have an internet connection, be it on a friend’s computer or on your webOS phone using the Grooveshark app. Cool, eh?
Grooveshark is available now, for free, in the App Catalog.
[via: MobileCrunch]
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48 Comments
I LOVE GROOVESHARK!!!! =)
An awesome app! And a native one at that.
Shame about the trial however, which music streaming App do you guys feel is the best? I'm pretty much stumped as there's a good variety available now.
I primarily use pandora, I have slacker also but it has adds. I am a Pandora One subscriber though so that somewhat makes a difference in my preference as I already pay a nominal fee for that. Grooveshark is great too but it's a different entity. It's good for when you want to listen to something specifically. I'll be upgrading both me and the wife to Grooveshark VIP for sure.
Thanks for the tip, i forgot to mention however that i am UK GSM Pre Owner so that somewhat limits my options, given that Pandora and slacker is not available in our region, seems Grooveshark is the way forward.
As someone who feels that all services on the internet should be free (unless they offer a truly rare or unique service) I haven
I like that I can upload my music to the cloud service & free up space on my flashdrive! I'll pay the for $30 for the year subscrpton .
seems like a cool app...might try it out..but im happy with slacker thus far.
There is no cost for this app, but it's not free. It's a trial.
According to reviews in the App Cat, after 50 songs you have to pay $3/month or $30/year.
It's a fair price for the services they offer, but I'm put off by the misrepresentation.
I agree...now a days, to pay for a music service is kinda ridiculous. It is too easy to get music for free and if an song really strikes me as great...I like to buy the album for cheap from amazon. I am the kinda guy that likes to have full albums. But again, it just seems kinda wrong to pay for a music service.
$30 a year for ANY song you want? You don't think that's a better deal? My question is, why do people still buy mp3's? Between Slacker and Grooveshark it seems like mp3's are old technology. They're sooooo 2000. It doesn't even make sense when you can stream all your music and not worry about space on your phone/music player for songs.
i'm not really down to pay for this. i'll just wait for an orb app... hopefully i'm not waiting forever.
Nice, looks like he's running 1.4 - look at the way the menus zoom open instead of slide open when he presses "Options" at 3:23. Also the 'loading' ring is prettier. Fun :)
It currently does that on 1.3.5.
Ahhh so it does. Ignore me :)
so do you only pay if you upload to it or after you listen to 50 songs you have to pay??
Where is this 'recommendation engine' that you speak of?
come on 3 dollars a month to listen to almost any song you want whenever you want. Thats not bad at all. I love that i can listen to shai linne, or lecrae whenever i want. Shoot i work at a school and have cross guard duty and got some trip lee in waiting on students to come and cross. Thats awesome in my book.
Lecrae and Trip Lee are awesome, I have never run into anybody on the internet that listens to them.
I listen to them also. Lecrae, Trip Lee, Shai Linne, Sho Baracka, Ambassador, Teddy P, Dillon Chase, Katalyst, Json and more
Where is this 'recommendation engine' that you speak of?
I really hope we get a Last.fm app sometime soon.
click on the link for the last.fm app you want http://forums.precentral.net/homebrew-apps/229570-lostfm.html
come on 3 dollars a month to listen to almost any song you want whenever you want. Thats not bad at all. I love that i can listen to shai linne, or lecrae whenever i want. Shoot i work at a school and have cross guard duty and got some trip lee in waiting on students to come and cross. Thats awesome in my book.
come on 3 dollars a month to listen to almost any song you want whenever you want. Thats not bad at all. I love that i can listen to shai linne, or lecrae whenever i want. Shoot i work at a school and have cross guard duty and got some trip lee in waiting on students to come and cross. Thats awesome in my book.
You can see this dudes password.
I don't get it. Grooveshark on the web is FREE and ad- supported. You only pay the fee if you want to eliminate the ads. Why isn''t Grooveshark Mobile ad-supported too?
Grooveshark is a lot like Last.fm (http://last.fm) - very similar features. There is currently a beta app for last fm (Lost FM - see forums) and it is FREE. The beta is already good and the full app will be out soon. You can upload your music (in fact many music players like Itunes and Media Monkey etc can automatically keep your music synced to last fm -its called "scrobbling"). You can create play lists, listen to other people's music and playlists etc - all the same features but it is FREE.
Plus every single other music app is FREE. Some charge for premium add on features but all are FREE, including Pandora, Slacker, Radio Time, Accuradio, all the Shoutcasts apps, Suggest-a-Tune.... with every single music app free why would anyone pay for this?
I will use the Pre app for Lost FM and all the other free apps.
Grooveshark you need to use ads and not tax your users. Then I will use you. I hope you do. Its a great app. But until then...
what are you talking about? My password????? Where? and if so please contact em directly, why are you posting that here??????
please respond and clarify. you have me worried, do I need to change my password? Why is it showing?
I think he's talking about the guy in the video.
LOL
LOL..... chill out dude. I am talking about the guy in the video. You can see his password as he is typing it out....
what are you talking about? My password????? Where? and if so please contact em directly, why are you posting that here??????
please respond and clarify. you have me worried, do I need to change my password? Why is it showing?
ravsteve Thanks for the comic relief. Your response was classic. I cried laughing. In your defense, my first reaction was, How the hell can he see his password? Then I realized what had happened and it made me laugh even harder.
I agree with you on Grooveshark, however. They need to find an ad sponsered alternative, otherwise I will stick to Pandora or Accuradio.
I'm glad that we now can choose individual songs with this app. I'm not happy that your not told it's a trial until later.Bad customer support.I'm still waiting for an email back from them about login problems after trying to register.
Just talked to Dieter. Salvag was talking about the video, not my post, just happened to post after me. My apologies to salvag, Dieter and anyone I panicked with my unfounded panic!
Salvag is referring to seeing Derek's password on the video. Ravsteve your passwords are still secure.
I'll stick w/ mobile ampache for listening to my own entire music collection...
did the thing to get the app for a gsm pre by downloading straight from palm servers...and it works :) suprised me a bit that. great app
Haha did anyone notice exactly what his password was? Well played sir.
his password is "iamsexy"
LOL
The Grooveshark website allows you to listen to 'radio' where it automatically pics songs for you based on ones you've already picked. I don't think Grooveshark Mobile has this feature. If this is the case AND it costs you $3 a month, I'll just go back to using Pandora / Slacker. The option to immediately hear any song is nice but not worth the cost, IMHO.
YAMSAs (yet another music streaming app)! I love them all (Pandora, Accuradio, LostFM, Grooveshark, Slacker, Radiotime).
Haha - I just opened all 6 at once. I went over to my buddy with the iPhone and flipped between them using cards and with notifications (Slacker and Grooveshark shamefully don't have notification bar commands, all the others do). I received an SMS, replied while still listening, and went back to flipping through the players with no problem. Take that!
Then he opened his awesome Rhapsody application - the one service I actually have a subscription for - and played whatever he wanted on demand. I only cried a little. This is why I need Flash ASAP!
I have a Rhapsody subscription too. Don't see why Palm wouldn't push for this app on webos?
I have agree with some that paying for another music service seems a little crazy considering there are so many for free, but I have no problem paying a fee if I can upload all my own music and play it on demand. I can justify the fee as a simple storage fee. This will really help me get over the 8GB limit on the Pre. Of course I would rather just have 64GB of storage for all my stuff, but this is a good short term option for music and for back up as well.
YES!!! Ive been waiting for flash so I could use Grooveshark! Love Grooveshark!
Umm... Right now it's a "SNEAK PEAK" for VIPs only... So, for now, non-VIP members are going to have a limit. It's allegedly in beta, so I'm guessing when it becomes the full release, it'll be free without limits on how many songs you can listen to. http://mobile.grooveshark.com/
Spotify would be better than Grooveshark on the Pre.
At least we could listen to songs 'offline'.
Not for EU :(
Way too slow! Very poor music quality. Will be a great service once they fine tune it.
The problem with Grooveshark is from what I can tell it is quasi-legal. They basically play in the same arena that YouTube plays in.
There are certainly legit legal songs on the service. And of course you can upload your own songs you bought for your own needs and listen perfectly legal. In fact a major deal recently made with EMI means that there is a large amount of legal music on there that you can just stream.
BUT there is also a LARGE amount of non-legal music on there. They claim they are legal since they are willing to take down any song that someone finds on there to be illegal. But I think that stance is iffy. Especially considering they are not doing any pro-active filtering themselves like Google is starting to do with YouTube. They are distributing copyrighted music that they have no license to distribute. That means they are breaking the law.
Note that they also try to pull their customers in to this legal nightmare by saying that it is the customers responsibility to not distribute and listen to music that they haven't licensed. Not that their customer can figure out what is licensed and what is not. I don't think putting the blame on their customer will hold up in court any better than it did for Napster but still a shitty thing to try to do to your customer.
Even if they do somehow manage to convince a court they are legal I find their "copy first ask for permission later" stance is just shitty business. It is not a music artist job to police every website out there to make sure their content is not being distributed without their permission. I think the approach companies like Rhapsody take of asking first is just much more respectful of the artists.
The fact that they try to charge a few bucks for their quasi-legal service is even more appalling. They are basically charging you for content they may or may not have even purchased.