[aom3]

Grooveshark is becoming a hot new music start-up that competes directly with Spotify.com, it is getting a dedicated following.

What is Grooveshark? As explained by explained by CrunchBase;
Grooveshark is a web-based music application built for anyone on the internet to listen to music on-demand at no charge.

Users have the ability to listen to single songs from the 7-million song catalog, save playlists, and embed both on other websites, blogs, and social media profiles via the Grooveshark Widget.

Grooveshark also allows artists and record labels to promote themselves through the application with both advertisement and paying for listens from Grooveshark users. All data and analytics relating to an artist (or group of artists) are freely available to promoters, such as the number of times their content has been listened to, along with demographic and geographic information about the listeners.

Currently it has three main pull factors for people who don't use Spotify
- Available internationally
- Cheaper than Spotify for premium accounts. ($3/month vs £9.99/month)
- Decent alternative to Spotify

I will post a full review soon, but in the meantime, check it out for yourself at Grooveshark.com.

[tomhr]

Originally Posted by aom3

Grooveshark also allows artists and record labels to promote themselves through the application with both advertisement and paying for listens from Grooveshark users.

Artists paying listeners to hear a song? The RIAA and IFPI will not like that! I suspect that this site will get shut down by court order, or will get armtwisted out of being so user-friendly.

[Martinman]

Originally Posted by aom3

Grooveshark is becoming a hot new music start-up that competes directly with Spotify.com, it is getting a dedicated following.

What is Grooveshark? As explained by explained by CrunchBase;
Grooveshark is a web-based music application built for anyone on the internet to listen to music on-demand at no charge.

Users have the ability to listen to single songs from the 7-million song catalog, save playlists, and embed both on other websites, blogs, and social media profiles via the Grooveshark Widget.

Grooveshark also allows artists and record labels to promote themselves through the application with both advertisement and paying for listens from Grooveshark users. All data and analytics relating to an artist (or group of artists) are freely available to promoters, such as the number of times their content has been listened to, along with demographic and geographic information about the listeners.

Currently it has three main pull factors for people who don't use Spotify
- Available internationally
- Cheaper than Spotify for premium accounts. ($3/month vs £9.99/month)
- Decent alternative to Spotify

I will post a full review soon, but in the meantime, check it out for yourself at Grooveshark.com.

Hi aom3. I'm a bit confused. I went on the site and am currently listening to part of The Who's album Tommy. I couldn't see what a premium account was (I only clicked create an account but didn't follow through).

So if I can listen to it for free, what is the purpose of the $3.00 a month? You can create playlists of your favourite music. Can you elaborate a bit more on this premium account thing?

I'll be interested in your review.

Cheers,
Martinman

[aom3]

Originally Posted by Martinman

Hi aom3. I'm a bit confused. I went on the site and am currently listening to part of The Who's album Tommy. I couldn't see what a premium account was (I only clicked create an account but didn't follow through).

So if I can listen to it for free, what is the purpose of the $3.00 a month? You can create playlists of your favourite music. Can you elaborate a bit more on this premium account thing?

I'll be interested in your review.

Cheers,
Martinman

Seems as if they might have temporarily removed the link to the vip account sign up page. But don't worry I saved it.

https://vip.grooveshark.com/
Advantages of having a vip account is listed in that link as well.

[tchiky]

Hi
Spotify doesn't work in my country - Portugal
But i have found Welcome to tv243.com - Music videos shuffle - Free radio a great alternative for it.
love Music

[Nightfly]

Originally Posted by tchiky

Hi
Spotify doesn't work in my country - Portugal
But i have found Welcome to tv243.com - Music videos shuffle - Free radio a great alternative for it.
love Music

Welcome,

As a newbie please don't post anymore links without PMing me.

Your link is a music site so I will allow it, put it is very close to spamming
and that is against the rules here.You might be a rep for the site...

Anyways, thank you for your cooperation,

Nightfly

[Martinman]

Originally Posted by aom3

Seems as if they might have temporarily removed the link to the vip account sign up page. But don't worry I saved it.

https://vip.grooveshark.com/
Advantages of having a vip account is listed in that link as well.

Thanks for that aom3 and sorry for not picking up on this thread earlier. I don't know how I missed it. Well, knowing me I know how I missed it.

Martinman