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This is how you stick your middle finger right in the face of the major labels... and Apple. Grooveshark is now launching an HTML5-based iOS app, which runs on devices like the iPhone and iPad but doesn't require approval from Apple, labels, or anyone else. Last year, Apple refused to approve the Grooveshark app, reportedly because of heavy pressure from lead litigant Universal Music Group.
The solution? A brower-based workaround. So, instead of going through the App Store, the HTML5-based app is available straight from the iPhone Safari browser. It hasn't officially been released yet, though early early-adopters can try it out at html5.grooveshark.com#soopersecretbeta.
Also check out: "EMI Sues Grooveshark. EMI Licenses Grooveshark. EMI Sues Grooveshark..."
Actually, this is part of a broader effort to circumvent not only Apple, but unfriendly gatekeepers like Google as well. Google is also blocking Grooveshark access through the Android Market, a less damaging move considering that Android is an open mobile platform. But, still a problem, which explains the workaround. This was just posted on the Grooveshark blog.
But... how is this app, anyway? The answer is, not that great. At least when compared to fully-developed apps like Spotify, which have the luxury of using the full iOS feature set. Spotify's app allows playlist access and creation, cacheing, graceful cover art and more, stuff that Grooveshark has been forced to do without.
@MasterMarsh Friday, January 13, 2012
Grooveshark jumps the bird...
@jfedor Friday, January 13, 2012
Umm. Wow.
HansH Friday, January 13, 2012
Paul The link is incorrect.
The app is not that great but it is free and has no limits for hours or plays and has no adds ;)
Grooveshark.. fishy
paul Friday, January 13, 2012
That was one ugly mislink. Try it now. /paul
HansH Friday, January 13, 2012
Ok but you can delete the #soopersecretbeta part in the link.
Spoken X Digital Media Group Friday, January 13, 2012
I hope they don't forget the invisible fine print and slip the wrong X inside Apple's IOS. Grooveshark may not need any licenses but Apple certainly does; they already F'd-up (9) track life years ago. . . ' Hey , buddy , you ain't got your license yet? ". . .--get one from Grooveshark via HFA. . .
effin Friday, January 13, 2012
good thing copyright law can apply to the operators of infringing companies as well, so when grooveshark the company is destroyed, the financial lives of the creators can go with it.
these people are criminals, they should and will lose every cent multiples over for the money stolen from artists and labels. they are monetizing on the backs of unpaid content creators, not simply downloading for personal use. the courts will see this, and the malice behind it, as even the dumb listening public is starting to catch on.
effin Friday, January 13, 2012
of course, this is only an opinion based on the articles on this site. if they're doing the right thing then that should be noted too.
Taylor D Saturday, January 14, 2012
What is that "right thing" they are doing, that you are so anxious to celebrate?
the usual liers Saturday, January 14, 2012
Stealing the artists is not an opinion. It's a mafia business.
brooklyn habitat Saturday, January 14, 2012
You weren't lying. This "app" is not that great.
@miketdavies Sunday, January 15, 2012
HTML5 is the future my friends. Come on in, the water is fine. Take any road that gets you there!
Death by a thousand cuts... Sunday, January 15, 2012
...and now the resignations have begun. in earnest, too. the top dogs are trying to keep it hush-hush. from department heads to attorneys to CFOs (from NY to FL to CO) -- they're all getting scared that they'll somehow be indicted with the rest of them. so they're leaving en masse. some employees think the company will be lucky to make it another 6 months.
PartlyCloudy Sunday, January 15, 2012
Who's leaving?
Deadshark Monday, January 16, 2012
Word on the street is that the entire accounts team has already walked (not like they were ever busy reporting and paying for content anyway)
X-Grooveshark Monday, January 16, 2012
Why would we stay, just to pay the price for the choices of others?
Jcaspita201 Tuesday, January 17, 2012
"Sina Simantob the Chaiman brings down Grooveshark"
Mass Mutiny............................................
Groveshark is over
Karen Louis Monday, February 13, 2012
I just came across your blog. I didn't knew this before that HTML5-based iOS app is being launched by Grooveshark. It is really nice to know this. Thanks for sharing this blog.
Karen Louis Wednesday, February 29, 2012
I came to know know this blog from my friends. I didn't knew this that you are such type of blogs. It is really very nice to know this that HTML5-based iOS application is being launched.
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