Grooveshark

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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Just a quick update:

In an effort to sort out all the madness from earlier today, we’re going to be making some small, helpful changes to some business on the backend tonight. Though caching is temporarily disabled, we do expect that some images within Grooveshark may be displayed improperly between 11 PM and 6 AM (EST) tonight.

Hopefully everything will be back to normal (well, as normal as things get around here) by morning.

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So last week we made some updates to Sharkbyte with the intention of allowing users to cache their songs for constant availability–and it worked! (Mostly.)

Unfortunately, the caching server can only handle so many connections at once, so sometimes it will attempt to pull some songs and realize that the bandwidth just isn’t there. Consequently, you may see a bunch of “Failed” uploads in the Upload tab of Sharkbyte. Here’s what it looks like:

Fear not! It will try again later, and hopefully successfully. The songs will eventually make there way over to Grooveshark Lite for even handier access.

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