Grooveshark

Checking your Grooveshark balance is as easy as clicking on the “My Account” button located next to the top right search bar.

From your account page, you can check your balance, view transactions, enter a giftcard code and add money to your Grooveshark account using a credit card or Paypal.

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When someone downloads a song, Grooveshark shares a portion of the cost of the song with the user who uploaded the song. But because multiple users may have the same song, Grooveshark uses an algorithm to determine who should receive the compensation.

The Grooveshark algorithm is set up to reward active users for sharing their music by compensating them with credit to purchase songs. Those user which actively contribute to the system will be rewarded more often than those who do not.

Community contributions include the following:

-Making friends
-Tagging songs
-Rating songs
-Commenting
-Building playlists
-Purchasing songs
-Growing your music library

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