Grooveshark

In the last few years I've been pretty lazy about getting new music. I basically listened to the radio, but as many know, that just gets all too repetitive.

Many use live streaming music websites like Pandora or Last.fm, but recently I was introduced to Grooveshark and it really is the best thing out there in terms of how I like listen to music...DIRECTLY finding songs. Unlike Pandora and last.fm where finding a song usually direct you to songs like it, but not the one you actually look for. Grooveshark lets you find the songs you're actually searching for and easily build playlists. It's like having an huge iTunes music library but stored online!

As far as limitation goes, I haven't found any. There's no limit of song skipping like Pandora has. The only bad thing I've noticed is their "autoplay" feature needs improvement. Autoplay is their music discovery feature which tries to find songs similar to the ones in your playlist and adds them to your listening queue. Grooveshark also lets you make widgets for your playlists which i embedded along side this blog.

Unfortunately, being an iPhone user, a Grooveshark app isn't available unlike Pandora and last.fm. Techcrunch said it may not pass the app store review process. I can definitely see a conflict of interest. If a Grooveshark app was approved, it'd probably hurt iTunes music store sales. But if you want to know what the iPhone app looks like here are some screenshots.