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« on: April 08, 2009, 02:15:51 PM »
Maybe I'm the only one who searches YouTube to check out music, but it sucks.

http://listen.grooveshark.com/

I've been checking it out today and it seems to do more or less what I want, plus or minus some difficulty in finding the right version of a song. It hasn't asked me for any money yet. I'll update this thread if it does.
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« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2009, 02:43:15 PM »
interesting. I discovered a bonus track on an album I have sans bonus tracks. I didn't even know about the other edition of the album. so that was annoying. but I was able to listen to the full song on grooveshark, and the quality was better than I had expected. so that made up for the annoyance somewhat. it doesn't have the other bonus track though. so I don't know. laugh
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« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2009, 02:53:41 PM »
I've found it very schizophrenic about what it has and what it doesn't. Sometimes it will have crazy-esoteric stuff, but then I looked for some freaking Led Zeppelin songs and couldn't find them. I guess it's just whatever users decide to upload and share. Still, better than searching youtube.

You can also check out the comment thread on the post where I found this service. They list several other similar services that may suck less, or perhaps at least suck in different and less annoying ways.
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« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2009, 08:44:39 PM »
Ha! Coincidently, I just found that website a couple days ago. One thing I don't like about it, is that it doesn't have recent releases (at least from what I looked at). I guess it takes a while for more recent music/albums to be uploaded to the site. But if the site has the album/music you want to listen to, it's certainly much better than Youtube. But if there's no place else to find a certain song without buying the song or a CD, Youtube is fine with me, even if it does become annoying to use sometimes.
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« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2009, 03:29:38 PM »
So I want to try and see if playlist sharing works without having an account. If you don't have an account, see if you can view and play this playlist:
This afternoon's working music.

If you can, it might be another spiffy way to share music.
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« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2009, 04:27:48 PM »
yep, I can view and play it.
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« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2009, 04:40:58 PM »
Quote from: schilleriana on April 09, 2009, 04:27:48 PM
yep, I can view and play it.
Fancy.

This seems like the sort of thing that would be useful for discussing music, which I admittedly don't do much of on the Phorum.
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