I’ve been using Grooveshark for about two months now and am in love with the service. I still like to have local copies of my music, but you can actually treat Grooveshark like an online jukebox with full control over all the music in your playlist — none of this “play a song like this one, but not actually this one” silliness that I’ve encountered with Pandora and Last.fm. Don’t get me wrong — music recommendation services are a great idea, and the VIP version of Grooveshark does offer something similar to those other two services — but there are times when I just want to hear one specific song, and Grooveshark lets me just type the name of a song or artist and then play whatever I want to. Full songs, no previews, and links to Amazon or iTunes if I want to buy a local copy.
The iPhone version of the service was released for free on Cydia yesterday, although it’s only available for paid VIP subscribers ($3/month). The app can stream music over most any connection, although it obviously sounds best over 3G or wi-fi. Songs start to play within two seconds of being selected, and they almost never stutter. If you know you’ll be heading into an area of spotty coverage you can also choose to cache songs for offline play so you can take Grooveshark into the deepest, darkest, signal-less hole and can still enjoy whatever you took the time to cache.
[thanks to Person of People]
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