Grooveshark has become a very popular service for music enthusiasts, as it offers the means to access and play millions of music songs right from the Grooveshark website without registration. Just visit the homepage, enter a song name or artist into the search form and select songs that you’d like to play. It does not get much easier than that.
Grooveshark accounts are available that offer advanced features including favorites and custom playlists. Still, the most important features are available without registration. On top of the ability to play single songs or playlists, there is also the option to tune into a radio station on Grooveshark.
A Grooveshark login is again not required for that functionality.
SciLor’s grooveshark.com Downloader is a free party program that acts as a Grooveshark music downloader. The program is dead simple to use, and requires no account or any other registration.
Here is how the downloader works. Enter a band name, artist, song or album into the search form on top and click on the search button. A maximum of 200 songs will be retrieved from Grooveshark. All results are listed in the format artist – song name, and have checkboxes for selection. Songs can be selected in the listing and added to the download list.
A click on Download there downloads the songs to the local computer system. The speed of the download depends on the user’s Internet connection, and the Grooveshark server. It took a few seconds to download most songs from Grooveshark.
The Grooveshark downloader offers another option besides searching for songs. A click on popular songs displays 500 popular songs from Grooveshark.
The download directory for the music and the song naming pattern can be changed in the downloader’s options.
The biggest strenght of the Grooveshark music downloader is its simplicity. Downloading music from Grooveshark cannot get much easier than that. SciLor’s grooveshark.com Downloader is available for download at the developer’s website. The portable program is compatible with most 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the Windows operating system. It was tested on a 64-bit Windows 7 Professional system. (via Webtrickz)
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Hoi Martin, Nice find this is a nice player. When i look for artist like Agnes Obel, Aloe Blacc, Annuals, etc the database is not stumped by main request
What’s the bitrate?
Test downloads show a bitrate of 192, not sure if that’s standard though.
Looks like it’s been blocked now.
[10/11/2010 12:45:35 AM] Start downloading Owl City – Fireflies – Ocean Eyes
[10/11/2010 12:45:35 AM] Error: System.Net.WebException – The remote server returned an error: (417) Expectation Failed. – “C:UsersWillDesktopOwl City – Fireflies.mp3″ deleted!
Will, it is still working for me. Try another download or two and see (I suggest you test something popular and go from there).
doesn’t this violates the terms of the site? my guess is that software like this is what will make grooveshark -a great service BTW- go nuts and require registration or end up fully premium…
I guess it does, but then again, if you only use the software you have never agreed to the terms, did you? Not sure how the law sees that though.
You are right about “how the law sees that?” The idea is that by “using” the site you are agreeing to the terms of use, or so I read somewhere- you know, the small print. Anyway, agreed or not, my real concern is that a great service like Grooveshark ends up with a business model that locks up some of the great features already available because of some people wanting to fill up their ipods with music. I guess that, when the time comes when wi-fi is everywhere, the real value of SaaS as this will show through.