Grooveshark recently started to block German users from accessing the service citing unreasonable costs of operations in the country as the sole reason for the move. German users who try to access the Grooveshark website see an announcement that the service is no longer available to them. There may be other countries or networks where [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Grooveshark’s ride to popularity has abruptly ended, at least in Germany. German users trying to access the website of the popular music streaming service Grooveshark are now greeted with an informational page telling them that the service has ended its operation in the country. According to the information, cost of operation reached a level in [...]

Categories: The Web

Grooveshark is pretty awesome, which can mostly be attributed to the fact that the service can be used without registering an account first. That’s rare on today’s Internet. Grooveshark is a web application that you can use to find and play music. You can use it to discover new music, tune into genre based radio [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

If you are not using one of the desktop applications that can tune into Grooveshark’s vast music database you are stuck with the web interface which can in some situations become quite bothersome. Most users run Grooveshark in a tab in the browser. If they want to stop the music or change the type of [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

GrooveShark and Last.fm are two of the most popular music streaming and information sites on the Internet. The free portable software GrooveWalrus utilizes the vast database of available songs of both services in its own stand-alone music player. The software is available for Windows and Linux currently, a Mac version seem to be on the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I really like Grooveshark mainly because it does not have IP or country restrictions and that the majority of features can be used without an account. That couples with a vast music library make it one of the best music streaming services on the Internet. Better Grooveshark is a userscript that adds several features to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Grooveshark Lite is a online service created by Grooveshark that offers a music search engine with the ability to playback the music found directly in the browser. The interface is based on Flash and provides simultaneous navigation and uninterrupted playback. Users who do not have an account can enter an artist, album or song title [...]

Categories: Cool, Entertainment, Music and Video

Grooveshark is a new social music website that is currently in closed alpha stage. I was able to get an invitation to the system and would like to write about it here at ghacks and also give out some invites to Grooveshark to a handful of lucky readers.

Grooveshark works basically the following way. You start an application on your computer and decide which music folders you want to share with the community. This application has to be running in the background to be able to share and listen to the music on the Grooveshark website.

Categories: Music and Video, Online Services, The Web