Grooveshark's new Javascript/HTML interface

This is an amazing rewrite from the Flash version - well worth the time they put into this one. They have some really dedicated staff members and some great talent on the team.

Apparently the latest version of Opera isn't modern enough. I'm really sick of projects blatantly not supporting Opera. There's nothing wrong with it.<p>Update: Come on there's no reason to downvote this. At least explain why you're downvoting this, for example, Opera killed your puppy.

How come the RIAA is okay with Grooveshark streaming any music at any time? Pandora has many more restrictions in their free version to qualify for "internet radio" licensing rates.

Great work! Linux users now officially love you :-)

This an awesome step for Grooveshark. Now let the greasemonkey or chrome extension customization scripts begin. Would love to see, what users come up with. I already coded new ad remover for my self. Couple ideas I have are as follows,<p>1. Last.fm scrobbler 2. Lyrics plugin (same as winamp has) 3. put 'now playing' list at the right sidebar 3. make 'now playing' list thinner. etc.

I am a big big fan of grooveshark. I work in a user interface team for a large blue chip company. The amount of work, time, dedication, motivation that goes into developing an intuitive user interface is huge. This guys just make it look as if it was a breeze.... If you could do a blog post as you have done on the architecture part, it will be great :).

Question for the developers.<p>How was JVMC? Was it very useful using the MVC format in your JS, did you end up using it mainly for classes or did you do the whole MVC format?<p>Why JMVC over something like Backbone?<p>A write up on this in a blog would be awesome.<p>Was Javascript templating useful? It seems to be me that it would be very slow (though faster than doing async request to servers I suppose).

Fantastic -- I'm a Grooveshark VIP member and have been since shortly after launch. I still think it was one of the best investments I've made in the past couple years -- it's completely changed how I listen to music (especially with the mobile versions).<p>I wish you guys the best of luck and thank you sincerely for continuing to innovate.

One thing I noticed is now the ad blocker (on Chrome) catches the ads and doesn't show them. Since I don't have a VIP account with them and the ads aren't as intrusive as Pandora/Last.fm services, I decided to whitelist listen.grooveshark.com to show ads. It works beautifully though, Flash on Linux was such a pain.

It looks like they're utilizing js templates and localization along with a lot of jQuery and JMVC.

Doesn't work on the Galaxy Tab. Tried Browser, Dolphin, Skyfire &#38; Fennec. Best I get is the spinning pinwheel after I pick a search.

Does anybody know what this is written in/on, specifically? JavaScript/HTML seems a bit vague to me.

I visited Grooveshark just yesterday, and I just thought it was a flash rewrite. I did like the theme a <i>lot</i>, but the only sad part was my playlist was gone &#62;:( (didn't have an account, it was just saved as cookie or whatever)

The Defacer Safari &#38; Chrome extensions (<a href="http://babelstudios.se/defacer/" rel="nofollow">http://babelstudios.se/defacer/</a>, <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ikfbfahhinbemojiloekflkfeeplnibe" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ikfbfahhinbemoji...</a>) seem to break this (just shows up a blank page)... any way to fix this?

Wow they've done an awesome job. Another massive blow for Adobe, losing the battle once again (and I'm a flash developer)

So what is the plan for Grooveshark Desktop?

Never used GrooveShark before but this is pretty cool. Wonder why they don't have playlist ratings though (as far as I can tell)? When I do a search for playlists I'd like to see what other people thought of them before I click through each one.

This is a totally opaque interface that hardly works at all as far as I can see. Completely uninformative, dumb, not functional in any real way. What is going on? Why do all these other think it is great? It is not.

you have just became my favorite website :)

I've spent a couple of minutes searching for 'My Music' and 'Favorites' lists. Just click on your username and they are in menu bar left to the search field. Beside that, great interface and fast loading.

You guys are my number one favorite. I hope you don't get shut down. &#60;3

I love it! I can finally use middle-click to open stuff on another tab.

Is there any way to make a grooveshark desktop version that uses this same html5 interface? I love how the next/prev buttons on my mac work with that interface (using gs desktop helper)

Really weird scrolling on Safari 5.0.3 on snow leopard. The background flickers through the search results. Otherwise really cool.

Apologies for my ignorance, but I've been listening to a couple of songs now, and I can't figure out how to purchase them?

Congrats on the design! Got me going intuitively. And there's even some rare songs up. Nice work!!

How do they hide the source code if it's all Javascript/HTML?

awesome job

I switched back to <a href="http://retro.grooveshark.com" rel="nofollow">http://retro.grooveshark.com</a> It's more refined, runs fine on Windows, and it has more features. The Javascript version is too chunky for my taste. I can't see the song titles, overlays don't work, I'm not getting tips, etc.

Whatever you think of the user interface, please don't use Grooveshark. Their business model is either illegal or immoral. You will get mail from copyright owners telling you cease and desist from accounts that you've closed in the past - Grooveshark will claim that you're sharing the music, and you have legal responsibility, not them. Mails to close accounts go unanswered.<p>And if you work there - shame on you.