It has been minutes and I've already found several new songs I absolutely adore.<p>For me, this is groundbreaking. It's like last.fm done right. I feel the same elation as when I first used Napster.
<a href="http://www.spotify.com/en/" rel="nofollow">http://www.spotify.com/en/</a><p>Since using that, iTunes: "Last opened: Thursday, 26 February 2009 11:27"<p>It just feels like I'm browsing for music on iTunes, and listening to the previews....except the previews are the full songs! It rocks! :)
Very nice site, thanks.<p>In case anyone from Grooveshark is reading this, here are two minor UI suggestions:<p>- It's rather easy to miss the volume control since it's so far removed from the other play controls. Perhaps it would be an idea to move it over there.<p>- A button to queue up all the songs in a search result. If it exists already I'm not seeing it.
Wow, so no one knows about <a href="http://deezer.com" rel="nofollow">http://deezer.com</a> ? It's been around for years. It's lack of popularity probably stems from the fact that it's French, same as <a href="http://jamendo.com" rel="nofollow">http://jamendo.com</a> (Creative Commons music)
I like the design and ease of use and it is definitely a site I would use.<p>The only problem for me, and the thing that it lacks that YouTube doesn't, is music that isn't mainstream and hasn't been released by a label. Songs that make it on mixtapes and other singles that artists use to promote themselves and their future albums don't seem to be available from the searches that I've run. But they are available on YouTube.
EMG ( <a href="http://escapemg.com/" rel="nofollow">http://escapemg.com/</a> , makers of grooveshark) has other nice services like <a href="http://tinysong.com/" rel="nofollow">http://tinysong.com/</a>
This is, by far, the best music site I've been to.
Mostly because of the perfect UI, autoplay and no DRM.
deezer.com, musicme.com pale in comparison
No flaw detected so far, have you found any ?
I'm really impressed by this site. Huge selection of music and a very friendly UI. I like how when you add a song for immediate playback, it prepends it to your queue instead of overwriting your queue.<p>Facebook Connect / OpenID would be nice. Also, when I signed up with a taken username it gave me an "unexpected error" message, a bit sloppy.
<a href="http://www.playlist.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.playlist.com/</a> which was announced on HN a while back provides this service too. It's worked quite well for me so far and their UI has drastically improved since it launched.
Neat site. I got it to work in IE6 but like an earlier poster think that the volume control should be in a more logical/visible place.<p>Some of the metadata appears to be messed up, as well. I clicked on what I thought was a Lemonheads album and got Presidents of the United States of America covering "Video Killed The Radio Star" instead.<p>And the billion-dollar question: How can this possibly be a sustainable business model? Ads for Verizon surely won't cover the development, licensing, and operating expenses for this site, will it?
I just wonder, what on this site is done in flash that couldn't be done with plain AJAX/Html, appart from the obvious streaming part ?<p>Just wondering, they may have some reasons
I actually prefer using <a href="http://www.hypem.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.hypem.com</a><p>Been using that site for months, all the other ones (even grooveshark) lack certain alternative songs which you can find on hypem.<p>The list with popular songs on hypem is also better, but that might just be my personal taste.
I like.<p>Surprised to find some nice international selections on there; usually have a hard time locating some non-Western music so it's refreshing to find some good World genres out there especially in such high quality and with such a nice, clean interface.<p>(Y)
Wow, this is amazing stuff. On par with Spotify in ease of use.<p>After a while it gets a bit too "flashy" though.<p>Would like to see some social/discussion functionalities.