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

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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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.

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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

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thank you for sharing! will dive deep into this tonight

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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.

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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…

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I just remember using some sort of downloader for Grooveshark.

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