We know we’ve had trouble this week, and for that we’re really sorry! Between not loading, giving stream errors, and unexpected downtime we really feel like jerks.
But fret not—we are working very, very hard to make the problems go away. Just a few moments ago, we realized Pickles the Panda was throwing a dance party in our server room, which caused most of the issues so far!
More updates soon, and in the meantime, let’s blame Pickles!
Two unrelated thing! Awesome guy Mikkin is wondering if anyone has any great playlists of Bollywood music. Can anyone help him out? Post one! Make one!
Also, Lachlan made a nifty little Grooveshark cursor that makes the cursor on your computer, well, Grooveshark-ified! Neat!
Last week we started a promo to give away tickets to Moogfest, and we didn’t want this week to go unnoticed. We teamed up with the alt bros over at FYF Fest to give away two sets of two tickets for this Saturday, September 4th! We aren’t rich enough to pay for airfare unfortunately, so be sure to live within travelable distance of L.A. — and post a drawing of a (Groove)shark in the comments to enter!
More info: http://www.fyffest.com/
So, this guy Blaise. I work with him. He is super-passionate about promoting musicians, helping people get heard, and making banana bread. But mostly promoting musicians! Which is why he made a cool way to get free promotion for your music on Grooveshark. This will show you how!
In case you’re ever wondering if Grooveshark is down (both Preview for VIPs, and Listen), check out Grooveshark Status! Nifty.
Last week I randomly discovered a new Tumblr that only posts new, awesome playlists from Grooveshark! Grooveshark Playlists posts all kinds of different genre, mood, and even festival lineup playlists everyday and is definitely worth checking out and following.
The coolest part is that it is you-friendly, so anyone can go and submit a playlist to be posted to the entire community! AWESOME.
Go visit! Go submit! They’re even on Facebook and Twitter so you can get frequent new tunes in your feeds!
Considering some new, temporary stuff for the store: what do you think? Earrings made out of recycled vinyl!
The ninjas over at Hype Machine have some, and we thought they were pretty nifty.
New Hot Chip theme just went live! Here’s what’s sweet: even if you don’t know anything about DJing, you can “remix” the song via MXP4 - check it out.
Thoughts on the theme?
More artist themes for awesome bands. Yes. (Shout-out to @Workerman for designing it!)
Today we were flattered to learn of Grooveshark’s inclusion in TIME Magazine’s 50 Best Websites of 2010! Complete with a panda reference in our description, we were honestly thrilled and proud—as we always are—that we can be useful to music fans all over the world.
They even tweeted at us!
Not to beat a dead shark, but we are very flattered—and will use the excitement to keep making Grooveshark better.
We just released a new Grooveshark extension, thanks to Groove-minnow James Hartig. Right now, if you already have Grooveshark open and then someone shares a song with you, it will open up another tab of Grooveshark, load the site, then start playing the tune. This makes it so that the song will open up in the instance of Grooveshark you already have running.
Here’s how it works:
Make it so song links sent to you will always open in your browser—in one single tab. Already have Grooveshark open? Click a song link, and it’ll pull up the tune in the tab which is already running the site. If you’re a VIP, you can also specify whether you prefer Preview, or regular ol’ Grooveshark.
VIPs also have the option to make song links open Grooveshark Desktop. Whenever someone shares a Grooveshark song link with you through email, IM, Twitter or anywhere else, it’ll open up the song right in Grooveshark Desktop—rather than opening a new tab in your browser. Note: make sure you have GSHelper installed and running.
Try it out!
Safari (direct download link)
