After Last.fm’s purchase by CBS in January, their first initiative was to enable (limited) free-streaming for all users.
Users are given a specified number of free streams as part of the promotion, and after their quota is reached, they are prompted with the option to purchase music from the Amazon mp3 store. How’s the initiative going? Read more
From MyMediaMusings:
Today I had the pleasure of skyping with Ben and Steve, two of the guys behind GrooveShark, a new (still in beta) site that has some interesting ideas about p2p music sharing, sales and discovery.
From StandardsDT:
I’ve been trying out GrooveShark for the past few months. It’s been more of off and on but still enough to get a feel for the service. At first I was skeptical but the service is definitely amazing and it has great potential. The website is easy to navigate and it’s extremely easy to find music, on top of that a great feature they provide is a friends list. I haven’t dove into this too much just yet so I can’t quite comment on what it exactly does. However I’m assuming it allows you see what your friends are listening to and it allows you to listen to their library of music as well.
From b5media:
Even though it seems to be going on for a few months now, I only just heard about this online music service called Grooveshark. It’s a web-based application where people can find and share music online. And, if you create and share music, they offer payments too (priced per download). So, this seems to be one way to make money online through online music sharing.
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From Profy:
Grooveshark is a new monetized music sharing application currently in private beta. Grooveshark has a simple business idea: everyone in music getting paid. Their lofty goal is to change the music industry, and after having used their site for a few days to try it out, I think they might just succeed.
Much of their potential for success replies on their main claim being true: that their service is legal because they can make sure the artists and labels get royalties using a P2P system to play, download and buy music. In their business model, the user whose playlist generates the sale also gets a cut. They outline it as the artist and label getting paid first, then the user, then Grooveshark. Now that’s a music democracy!
From TechnoSpot:
Grooveshark ( Still in beta ) is a new face in Music community but its with a difference. It not like another File Sharing community where users share the music among themselves and can download it. Rather you need to buy it . So how does it make a difference ?
We got 35 invites for this. Just tell us who is your fav artist or fav song in comments and take the invite
Here is deal:
* You share the music
* Somebody wants that music and offers to buy
* Grooveshark sell it but pays the author of the music, YOU and then rest goes to Grooveshark.
This way the DMCA does not get violated , you listen and YOU EARN and share whatever you got. Over all I think its pretty cool. I had been using it from morning and I was able to find songs which I had been looking from a long time and there is no lag when you play it. I was able to listen the songs without any disruptions all the time.
From ReadWriteWeb:
P2P music service Grooveshark is at SXSW Music this week, promoting the upcoming release of an Analytics suite for music artists and labels. The company is also generously offering ReadWriteWeb readers $1000 worth of music vouchers (details below). We reviewed Grooveshark in August last year, when Josh Catone described it as “one part Last.fm, one part Limewire, and one part iTunes store.”
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From VentureBeat:
People have been trying to come up with a legal way to share music since the heydays of Kazaa and Napster. Record labels weren’t ready to relinquish control, though, and arguably, consumers weren’t ready to pay.
Grooveshark, a file sharing community that allows users to freely buy and sell tracks from each other, hopes that the timing is right to win the labels over.
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Have a band, story, or question about Grooveshark? We want to hear it! Send it to:
marketing (at) grooveshark.com
| 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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