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Grooveshark: Grooveshark 2.0 is Here, and it's in Cydia!
For the many of you who’ve been asking about Grooveshark for iPhone, we’ve got news: it’s back in Cydia.
Not only is it back—it’s brand new. Last night we released a spiffy, completely updated version of Grooveshark for iPhone with some of the features folks who have had the app have…
Wow, Grooveshark 2.0 looks great! And it has multi-tasking? Stupid Universal Music Group UK. Why did they have to complain to Apple and get it removed from the App Store?
I just love Grooveshark!
While looking around for a Last.fm alternative ever since it became a paid service (I only found out a month ago), I came across Grooveshark. Grooveshark lets you listen to any song at any time for free. Except for an ad in the right side of the page (and audio ads between songs, that I’ve yet to encounter), the service is completely free and doesn’t require you to listen to some radio “station” to listen to songs. You can either build your own playlist or choose a radio option that will pick songs based on your previous songs. You can also listen to a “tag radio”, a station that plays songs from a specific genre.
You can even upload songs, and not just ones you own the copyright to! Yes, I’m not bluffing! The whole service is based on sharing, and thus every song you listen to on it was uploaded by another individual. Got a song the website doesn’t have? Upload it so other people can enjoy it too. To test this theory, I looked up the soundtrack from Deus Ex: Human Revolution’s E3 trailer and I found it in seconds, even though it was released less than a week ago. I even tried to look up an Israeli song and found it. You can add songs to your library if you make an account, mark songs as favourites, create playlists, and more.
The best part about it? This is available worldwide. No regional restrictions, no licensing crap, nothing. And if you get a VIP subscription for $3 a month or $30 a year, you get mobile streaming, no ads, a desktop app, Last.fm scrobbling, a bigger library (50,000 songs!) and more space for favourites (5,000!), early access to new features, and a bunch of other stuff. If Grooveshark manage to release their iPhone app on the App Store by the time I get my iPhone, I’ll give VIP a shot. The iPhone plan I’m after has 10GB of bandwidth, more than enough for music streaming. If Grooveshark streams songs at a bit-rate of 160kb/s (wild guess), my calculations say 10GB should be enough for nearly 139 hours of streaming, if I do nothing else. To emphasize, if Grooveshark actually streams at 256kb/s, it would still come to 86.5 hours. Plenty of songs.
And being a sucker for detailed web 2.0 design, this service already won me over.
