Some quick updates on goings-on for the past couple of days:
1) Caching is back up - We’ve reimplemented caching (finally) of your content via Sharkbyte. The benefits: you can travel anywhere and have your songs available for streaming, from any computer; bandwidth from your personal internet connection saved, as we’ll host future downloads for you (and you’ll still get compensated); and eventually moving all of the songs over into Grooveshark Lite and Tinysong, expanding the catalog of songs available by adding your own.
Everything’s looking pretty good so far, but if you see anything funky, be sure to let us know.
2) We got Ddos’ed! - For the past couple of early mornings, Grooveshark has been hit pretty hard by some mysterious zombie traffic. Fortunately, it’s only happening between about 2 AM and 7 AM EST, but between those hours things have been getting seriously slow. So for you nighthawks using Grooveshark while working (or playing) late, this is why–and we’re working on figuring out exactly what/who/why it’s happening.
3) Advertising? - You may have noticed small text ads appearing in the bottom footer of Grooveshark Lite. Don’t worry, we haven’t sold out to the man–we’re only selling small text ads to help support the dream: listening to whatever song you want, when you want.
If you hate it and philosophically resent us, let me know. On the other hand, if you’re interested in advertising on Grooveshark, hit us up! We’re more than happy to see what we can do for you.
That’s it so far this week! I’ll keep you posted on anything else that comes about, but until then, keep listening and keep in touch!
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Ha! awesome, but this time lets hope that caching works!
Will the cached songs be “moved” to lite instantaneously upon upload or is this done manually and not automatically yet?
James Hartig
Hey James!
Too true–I hope it stays relatively stable, too. :)
Long-term we’re hoping for a very brief latency between when songs are cached and when they appear on Grooveshark Lite. Right now, it’s manual (we had to take caching offline to get Grooveshark Lite off the ground to begin with, let alone auto-caching).
You may have already seen it, but our CIO Colin just made a detailed post explaining some of what’s been going on lately. Check it out http://www.grooveshark.com/blog/2008/06/26/groovesharks-growing-pains-love-from-our-cto/ .
Thanks as always!
Ben Westermann-Clark
Ya, I just did now. Glad to hear your getting things working again.
Manual? Any reason/restrictions why it can’t be automatic?
James Hartig