I've been thinking about the future of the pub, and the way we share music here at the phorum. It's become inactive, obviously, as the site has become less active. I also think much of it may also be redundant with some of the apps and websites many of us here use. So, I'll use this thread to perhaps give the community a much-needed shot in the arm and extend an invitation to follow me on Grooveshark and Spotify (which is where I'm at right now). I'm
iceybloop in both of them, and both of these sites have an advantage in that they are free (or, at least, have a version that is).
Grooveshark is probably the easiest to use of the two since they aren't doing the false scarcity b.s. that Spotify is on about right now, and requires no client to be downloaded since it's web-based.
Spotify is new in the U.S., and it will become more available I'm sure (right now, it's invite-only). If you aren't interested in using facebook (hi Vlad), but you still want to be social on the site (sort of the purpose of this thread), just type in
spotify:user:iceybloop in your regular web browser and select the Spotify client to follow me on that site. I'm not sure how one enables the social aspect for themselves (without just connecting it to fb), but maybe it is enabled just by following people. IDK - educate me.
Of course, there are more sites than just these two, so if anyone has any further suggestions, I'm open to them. I just know that both
MOG and
Rdio aren't free for long.
From there, we can direct people to things in our playlists that may be interesting to them, and even discuss them as a group.
I'm not doing anything with the pub for right now, btw. If you have a local band or something you'd like to share that isn't on these services, feel free to continue uploading there. I just think it may be redundant for much of what we used to do with it.
