Grooveshark
Ran across a reference in a google alert to Grooveshark. It’s a portal for assembling playlists of songs and then making a widget on-the-fly to embed on a web page. I’ve used seeqPOD to accomplish the same in the past. I use podBean’s modest free set up to host my record, In Khorasan.
(June 4 – I put the podcast widget below the fold.)
The Grooveshark interface and procedural is much more capable than that of seeqPOD. With this greater complexity comes a bit of dodginess too. The home page is grotesque. Rebuild home page is offered as a toggle.
As for Grooveshark’s contribution to the slow rolling demise of the old line record business? It has its part to play. seeqPOD draws mp3 sources from around the net. I’m not sure, but it seems Grooveshark is storing or caching mp3s on their servers. If so, like Pandora, it’s likely headed for a court test sometime in the future.
The discrete nature of songs and their ubiquity lends itself to this kind of assembly. It would be neat to mash up text sources.
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(June 4 – I put the podcast widget below the fold.)
The Grooveshark interface and procedural is much more capable than that of seeqPOD. With this greater complexity comes a bit of dodginess too. The home page is grotesque. Rebuild home page is offered as a toggle.
As for Grooveshark’s contribution to the slow rolling demise of the old line record business? It has its part to play. seeqPOD draws mp3 sources from around the net. I’m not sure, but it seems Grooveshark is storing or caching mp3s on their servers. If so, like Pandora, it’s likely headed for a court test sometime in the future.
The discrete nature of songs and their ubiquity lends itself to this kind of assembly. It would be neat to mash up text sources.
Read the rest of this entry »
