Grooveshark: The Original Spotify | Nostalgia Nerd

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[dxr]

I still miss GrooveShark. It did one thing that I haven't seen any other service match since: they used sonic analysis to queue up songs instead of using metadata. So if you were to start listening to Money For Nothing by the Dire Straits, you would get songs that sounded similar in the same way a (good) radio DJ would queue them up. Spotify and other services, by comparision, will notice that people who usually listen to Dire Straits also listen to, for example, Pink Floyd, and queue songs up that way. This means you can get massive sonic whiplash from song to song.

TBF, even GrooveShark eventually dropped this in favor of metadata by the end of it's lifetime. A real shame if you ask me.

[dadsfads]

During my teens, when I was really getting into music, it was an incredible tool to find out what I like and discover new artists.

I still have a GrooveShark shortcut on my desktop. The logo has become a part of the scenery and I'll never let it go.

[alcidesqueiroz]

I have a crazy story from back in the day with Grooveshark. So, I was all about Grooveshark for years, jamming out to my tunes. Then Spotify came along in Brazil (in 2014), and I switched, as many others did. But one day at work, I had this itch to listen to a specific song I couldn't find on Spotify (probably the Starcraft 1 Terran theme, go figure). So, I revisited Grooveshark after months of silence. Lo and behold, the song was there! Just as I got into it, BOOM, the stream cut off. I mashed that play button, but nada. Refreshed the page, and guess what? "Today we are shutting down Grooveshark." Yup, lucky me, I managed to hit play right when they were pulling the plug! That was after MONTHS of not using it. Still mind-boggled by the sheer absurdity of it all, even 8 years later. 😂

[Cknight]

I think its interesting the founder died a few years before the site got shut down. And the co founder was found dead for inconclusive reasons shortly after the site got shut down as well.

[DrakkarCalethiel]

Grooveshark, a name I haven't heard in many many years!

[RyanMercer]

Did two dna services. Found out my dad wasn't my dad. Buyer beware 😭

[TheBearInTheChair]

It was the only music streaming service that wasn't blocked when I was in my last two years of highschool. Man, good times

[lizardizzle]

A few months ago I was in a grooveshark nostalgia trip and was disappointed to find that no one had talked about grooveshark at all. Glad to see this history!

[JCBeastie]

Grooveshark passed me by, I did use Pandora before they geolocked. To this day no other service has identified my musical taste as accurately. I miss it.

[StevenHunt]

I went to high school with Josh and it still blows my mind to see how big of an impact he had on the Internet and the world for the time he was with us. I remember visiting him and his web design business in 2004, at the time he was running it out an extra room at a chiropractor's office. He graduated and left for UF the year after that and the rest is history.

[Brainles]

Grooveshark was amazing. And i really liked the web interface they transitioned to near the end.

[AlexandruVoda]

Note: Napster, KaZaA and others did NOT use torrents. Torrents were invented later and are not the only way to do P2P.

[Loki-]

I listened to grooveshark around 2009/10 while playing WoW. It was great for PC listening and had so many songs.

[Croz]

I guess part of the issue is when you're dealing with copyrighted work, as a CEO you can't play it fast and loose for long, you need to acquire an expensive legal department which will increasingly tie up more of your time, which if you're a CEO of a sprightly tech startup fresh out of university you are going to find incredibly boring and frustrating to deal with when you could instead be seeing what new feature your dev team has come up with. On the other hand, if you're a more mature CEO with experience in other companies dealing with IP, who has already had to sit through many dry and mind numbing meetings with lawyers, you're probably at least able to recognise that this dull drudge work is essential to your success. That's possibly why Spotify succeeded where Grooveshark failed, they were more willing to get the costly and boring licencing work done up front.

[androxilogin]

I remember the day it shut down. I was pissed off and drunk. Of course there were a few alternative servers trying to pick up where they left off but it didn't last long. Groovedown was great throughout the whole thing.

[faenethlorhalien]

God, the screencap of napster gave me some serious flashbacks to my college days...

[Hydroxytryptophan]

It's weird how many inconclusive deaths are related with big media companies.

This reminded me of the German hacker called Tron, which you should make a episode about.

[solwidotnl]

If I remember correctly, Napster didn't support multi-peer downloading. It also didn't support resuming partial downloads. If your peer was gone, the file remained broken.

[nicktheslayer]

What the hell?

I woke up about three hours before this video was uploaded and my first thought was "what happened to grooveshark? I liked that site. I wonder if anyone else remembers it."

Spooky

[PedroSilvahf]

And i just noticed the shark fin in the logo. By the time it went offline i heard about a lot of people uploading full radio shows, some weekly, some daily, most of them comedy or just a host who was funny. They pulled the plug so fast i believe most of those shows are lost media by now.