Grooveshark
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| Millions Of Songs. Find yours. | |
| Audio on demand | |
| languages | German , English , Spanish , Chinese , Italian and 28 others |
| operator | Escape Media Group Inc. |
| editorial staff | Sam Tarantino, Josh Greenberg, Andres Barreto |
| Registration | voluntary |
| On-line | 2007 |
| http://listen.grooveshark.com/ | |
Grooveshark was an online community that made it possible for users to search for music using a search engine , listen to it and, if necessary, upload new music. Around 50 to 60 million songs were accessed by more than 400,000 listeners every month. In April 2009, the average number of listeners grew by two to three percent per day. On January 18, 2012, Grooveshark stopped access from Germany; on April 30, 2015, the service was completely stopped after a comparison with the major labels .
Functions
One of the most striking features of Grooveshark was the so-called “ Grooveshark Radio ”. It should find and suggest similar songs based on songs the user has already heard. Furthermore, the suggested titles could be marked with a “happy” or “disappointed” smiley using a simple evaluation scheme. If the user is satisfied with the suggestions, Grooveshark gives them the option of saving the playlist and calling it up later. However, “ Grooveshark Radio ” also offered a static playlist that was played automatically. The songs contained in this playlist belonged to a certain genre that could be freely selected. There were 26 classifications available.
history
Grooveshark was a service of Escape Media Group Inc (EMG) based in Gainesville, Florida . The EMG was founded in March 2006 by three students from the University of Florida . Sam Tarantino, currently CEO of Grooveshark, had the idea of setting up this service, as he walked past a record store and a sign saying "buy / sell / trade CDs" (in German: "buy / sell / exchange CDs") read and wanted to transfer this attitude to digital music.
Grooveshark started with a beta version in early 2007 and was originally a download portal for paid music. The music was sourced from their proprietary P2P networks . Grooveshark offered a unique payment method where the person who uploaded a song shared part of the total cost of the song.
As of December 2007, EMG had 40 employees, most of them students who lived near the University of Florida .
In 2008, EMG discontinued its paid download service and reorganized itself as an online jukebox, similar in functionality to, for example, the Pandora and Last.fm services .
In October 2009, Grooveshark got a new look: The users could now jump back and forth in the songs.
Access to Grooveshark.com from Germany has been blocked since January 18, 2012 because, according to the statement on the Grooveshark.com website in Germany, the operating costs are too high due to GEMA fees.
On April 30, 2015, the service was also discontinued in the other countries after a comparison with the major labels . The Grooveshark.com domain has also been offline since 2017.
On July 19, 2015, a few weeks after Grooveshark.com closed, co-founder Josh Greenberg was found dead in his apartment. The subsequent autopsy could not unequivocally clarify the cause of death. He was 28 years old.
Legal situation
Grooveshark offered the music uploaded by its users as a stream without concluding corresponding license agreements with the authors or rights holders. In 2009, the music group EMI initiated a lawsuit against the company for this reason, but then concluded a license agreement with Grooveshark. According to German copyright law, Grooveshark was in a legal gray area. In addition, Universal Music Group has filed a lawsuit against Grooveshark to obtain a closure.
On January 18, 2012, Grooveshark discontinued its service in Germany with the reference to "disproportionately high operating costs". Visitors to the website were advised to send a polite message to GEMA if they wanted to reduce the operating costs for providers like Grooveshark. There is also a reference to the alternative, German-born music service simfy on the website . Since January 21, 2012, the mobile website can no longer be reached from Germany. There are now several technical solutions to circumvent this lock. In a press release by GEMA, on the other hand, any contact between the collecting society and Grooveshark has been denied to date and the claim that users from Germany were foreclosed for cost reasons are presented as incorrect.
Grooveshark has been offline on grooveshark.com since April 30, 2015. In the weeks and months that followed, several domains attempted to cling to the success of the original grooveshark.com; Several of them only managed to do this for a few weeks because too many functions were missing.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Musicians Find Fans At Grooveshark Artists (English) . Archived from the original on April 18, 2009. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 23, 2009.
- ↑ Grooveshark shuts down, apologizing to labels for lack of music licenses (English) . Retrieved May 2, 2015.
- ↑ Howard Clark Show Notes . Retrieved April 27, 2009.
- ^ Escape Media Group . Archived from the original on April 27, 2009. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 23, 2009.
- ↑ UF Startup Opportunity: Grooveshark . Archived from the original on March 8, 2010. Retrieved April 23, 2009.
- ↑ Grooveshark Brings Legal Music Sharing to Gators and World (PDF; 277 kB) Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 23, 2009.
- ↑ Trade Vibes Grooveshark profiles . Archived from the original on April 12, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 23, 2009.
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- ↑ http://www.gainesville.com/article/LK/20151222/News/604138461/GS/
- ↑ Nils Baer: How legal is the music streaming service 'Grooveshark'? Basic Thinking, October 2, 2010, accessed April 28, 2011 .
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- ↑ Grooveshark ceases operations for Germany. (No longer available online.) October 2, 2010, archived from the original on January 21, 2012 ; Retrieved January 18, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ grooveshark.com. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 29, 2014 ; Retrieved April 8, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Grooveshark Mobile. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 16, 2013 ; Retrieved January 21, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Mozilla Firefox addon for Grooveshark access from Germany. Retrieved December 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Google Chrome Extension for Grooveshark access from Germany. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 3, 2013 ; Retrieved September 24, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ GEMA press release. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 29, 2014 ; Retrieved February 10, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
