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12-07-2011, 21:36
Apparently I live under a rock because I just found out about Grooveshark. How does everyone else like it? I think I might prefer it to Pandora. Not sure yet, still playing with it.
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28-07-2011, 17:54
I've just created an account, Trace.

Like you, this is all news to me. I have quite a few albums on my laptop for investigation at the moment, but Grooveshark looks good for carrying this on.

One thing I don't like is that quite a few of the albums have tracks missing, and it seems more set up for streaming individual tracks. I'm an album kinda guy. I may end up reverting to Spotify, although they're starting to limit the amount you can stream every month. I believe Spotify is heading to the States, so that could be worth investigating ?!

I'll see how it goes when I start to use it more regularly...
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28-07-2011, 18:40
You know I nearly forgot about it. I have to revisit and see if I like it. I notice it doesn't play a lot of mainstream hits. I end up hearing songs from groups I like that I've never heard before. That's kind of nice.
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11-08-2011, 14:52
I've abandoned Grooveshark.

We7 is available in the UK (Peter Gabriel from Genesis is involved, apparently), and this is similar to Spotify without the streaming limit. They seem to have a huge selection of music.

The only minus is that royalties are paid through advertising, so you have to endure adverts periodically.

Might have found my music previewing home...
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11-08-2011, 14:57
So I can't create an account from the U.S. ?
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11-08-2011, 15:08
At the moment it only appears to be The UK & Ireland.

Try Googling WE7 from where you are Tracy...
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11-08-2011, 15:12
I did and it asked for my postal code and then just sort of got stuck. I don't think the website recognizes my postal code!
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11-08-2011, 15:18
You can access these if you use a program like Expat shield ( just google it) if you run this it will give you a UK IP address and then it will fool the program or server into thinking you are from the UK

here is the Expat shield url

http://download.cnet.com/Expat-Shield/30...11377.html
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11-08-2011, 15:18
Thanks, I'll have to try that!
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