Did I say cheap? I meant Free.
Our buddy Chaz over at paidgameplayer.com took time out of his freezing schedule up in Denver to call us and tell us about a great promotion Electronic Gaming Monthly is having.
They’re giving away free 12-month subscriptions to their magazine — that’s it. No strings attached. No credit card needed.
Just follow the link and fill out the name and address fields and you’ll get 12 months of EGM for free.
Here’s the link: Free EGM
In our continuing effort to keep you abreast of all of Grooveshark’s features, we present you with a quick howto on using Grooveshark’s Invite system (or at least show you where it is).
The first step is to ensure you have registered for Grooveshark. It’s free, and if downloading music isn’t your cup of tea, you can still use Grooveshark’s personal radio for full-streaming.
Now that you have your account setup, let’s get going.
On your homepage you’ll see the latest songs from the community on the billboard, the top users, and the top playlists.
AND, if you scroll down to about 3/4 of the page, you’ll see the “INVITATIONS” section on the right hand column.
Currently we don’t have the ability to import your contacts from Gmail, Yahoo, etc. but we figure you don’t want to blast your entire email list anyway.
Grab your friends’ email addresses, and stick them into the invite manager one at a time, be sure to keep the “add this person..” box checked so that your friends will become your ..friends on Grooveshark as well.
Sometimes your friends might not open their emails immediately; I have a number of friends who do this, so make sure to keep bugging them until they finally signup. I’ve found that getting my friends to sign up for Grooveshark is the hard part, but once they’re on the site and start using it, they’re always giving me the “why didn’t you tell me about this sooner, blah, blah.”
Now, I’m not supposed to tell you this, but the Grooveshark algorithm may take into account the amount of friends you have on the system, and the amount of friends you refer to the community in determining how often you receive recompensation ($.25 credits), so it’s in your best interest to get your buds on the site as well.
Remember, to enjoy our free full length streaming and personal radio, you must register or check our InviteShare if you just can’t wait !
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We’ve been introducing a lot of new features lately, and I wanted to take the time to share one of my favorite new features, “share” (pun intended, sorry).
When exploring your personal radio on Grooveshark, you may discover a new artist, and you may want to share that particular artist with a friend, hypothetically speaking that is.
Share is one of the many features available when you “Bite” a song.
Let me explain …
To get started with share, search for the song in question. In my case, I’m looking for ‘Greenskeepers‘.
Go ahead and click the go button.
Next step is to select the song option, since I’m looking for a specific song. Now, there are only 10 results displayed by default, so if can’t find your song in the results below, use the artist tab to search the entire catalog of songs from the artist.
Click “info” to get to the song page, and the share feature. If you just want to listen to the song, you can use the links provided to listen and download.
Now, once we’re on the info page, scroll down to the song library, and click on the shark fin (bite).
Next, navigate over to the share tab.
Select the friends you’d like to share the song with or their email addresses, personalized your message, and SEND !
Now, when you receive any shares (visible in the Grooveshark messaging system), they’ll look something like this:
Note: we make no guarantees that your friends will not send you Hanson songs ad-nauseum.
Need an invite to Grooveshark? Check out InviteShare or register like the rest of us.
Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to Pravda Records!
The organization signed with Grooveshark not too long ago, and we look forward to a strong and long-lasting relationship together. Here’s a little juice about the label to get you caught up to speed.
“Pravda Records was started in 1984 by Kenn Goodman, who wanted to put out a record by his band, The Service. “It seemed that other people thought we were a label, so we became one.” After putting out other records by the Hollowmen, Shy Strangers, Claude Pate, and Green, the label was officially up and running and looking for an office bigger than Kenn’s apartment bedroom. In 1986, the Pravda retail store was opened in Chicago to help fund the label and sell other independent and import music. Other releases such as 13 Nightmares, The Farmers, The Slugs, Susan Volez (of Poi Dog Pondering), The Frantic Flattops, Gringo, Javelin Boot, Rex Daisy, Willie Wisley Trio, Wake Ooloo and the first installment of the K-Tel tribute series were released and some of them actually started selling!
The philosophy of the label has always been to release different styles of music for people with open minds. “All people have voices they prefer, sounds they enjoy, instruments they like, and moods they like to slide into when listening to music,” explains Kenn. “That’s why we have a diverse roster of talented artists, and not one label sound.”
After selling the retail side of the business in 1992, the label became the main focus and today has over 70 releases. Current artist include: Glenn Mercer (ex-Feelies), Andre Williams, The New Duncan Imperials, Cheer-Accident, The Civil Tones, The Goldstars & The Sleepers. We enjoy diverse music here at Pravda, and the common thread present is the quality of the music.â€
Cheers, and welcome to the Grooveshark community!
Just so this is on the top of everyone’s mind.
Just so everyone is aware of this before you happen upon it somewhere else. This line is currently in our EULA that is scaring people.
“7.3 Copyrighted Content. You understand and agree to not share any content which is copyrighted, and not represented by a label on the list of labels that EMG currently has a licensing agreement with. Such a list of labels that currently have a licensing agreement with EMG can be located at www.grooveshark.com/labellist.php.”
We are hard at work restructuring it, and we will be indemnifying users against litigation. As soon as we release the new EULA (which will be soon), we will post the relevant changes here.
First allow me to introduce myself. My name is James Davis, and I am part of the Grooveshark executive team.
Now to your concerns:
Yes, our CEO, Sam Tarantino, did say that Grooveshark will indemnify its users. Obviously this is not what the current EULA says. This is because the current EULA was written in March before we had figured out how to handle the selling of unlicensed tracks on our system. The new EULA addresses the issue of user indemnification. The reason the new EULA isn’t up yet basically comes down to lawyers. More specifically, our lawyers. They’re going through it and making sure all the I’s are dotted and the T’s are crossed. And of course we’re paying them by the hour so they’re taking their sweet time. But don’t worry, we’ve got you guys covered. You will not be held liable.
[Thanks to Wired for their great article!]
As you’ve probably read already, we’re going to be having quite an awesome sale tomorrow. However, we should take the time out of our day to thank TechCrunch for writing about us. It’s great to know that such reputable and famous news sources appreciate what we’re doing. Coverage such as this truly verifies the countless hours we pour into making Grooveshark special, week in and week out. Here’s a snippet of the story:
“Grooveshark is an interesting service that we’ve not covered previously, but has been reviewed by CrunchGear
. Users upload their music to Grooveshark, and any member can listen to those tracks for free. If they want to download a song, they can purchase it DRM free and the user who uploaded the song gets a cut of the sale … All music on Grooveshark will be sold for 29 cents for the 12 hour period, a good offer considering that Groveshark has 3.5 million songs in its catalog.”
Again, thanks for helping us get the word out about our beta release!
| Grooveshark tracks the best users so you know who can be trusted to deliver quality content. |
| In the turbulent, choppy waters where P2P networks and copyright law chomp at each other's fins for dominance, there's at least one beast that thinks it has a solution to keep everybody happy. Its name: Grooveshark. |
| Free streaming. Social networking. Music discovery. Oh, and reimbursement for sharing when somebody buys a song that you've uploaded to the collective. |
| If you're looking for a way to grab music from peer-to-peer networks without that nagging feeling that you're depriving a starving artist of her next meal (or a label exec of that Learjet upgrade), Grooveshark might help. |
| Grooveshark: a new music service that I can see a lot of potential in. |
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