Losing Your Free Spotify Account? 2 Grooveshark Staffers Make It Easy To Switch
Despite hints yesterday that Spotify may make their free accounts a bit more attractive, some users are looking hard for alternatives. One, for now, is Grooveshark which is still up and running despite being sued by every major label. To make the switch from Spotify easier, two Grooveshark staffers, Julia Anderson and James Hartig, created ToGrooveshark as a side project.
ToGrooveshark converts Spotify playlists to Grooveshark. It takes the URLs from your Spotify songs and matches them up to Grooveshark songs and then creates a playlist on your Grooveshark account.
It has three steps, and allows users to preview songs and find other matches on Grooveshark, if needed. When the playlist is created, a widget allows preview of the final product and gives a link to the finished playlist on Grooveshark.
More here.
Hmmm Tried it with this playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/ratzkx/playlist/1aqKlSwvFDi6ZKm6P1u5EU
250 songs on Spotify 3 on Grooveshark
That’s good and all but is it worth it if Grooveshark is currently being sued by the major record labels?
http://www.pcworld.com/article/247389/groovesharks_legal_woes_mount_as_emi_sues.html
I just ran this myself and it found 210 matches on Grooveshark.
What browser are you using? Can you email me at james.hartig@grooveshark.com?
The major labels are swinging at anything that moves right now~ they are boxed into a corner, they have little fight left in them and certainly no traction. The days of the powerful music corps CONTROL are numbered!
The few major labels still holding on remind me of a cute little animated movie I saw called “A Bugs Life”. In this movie the much larger controlling and powerful grasshoppers (major labels) finally get what they deserve when the tiny ants come to the realization that they outnumber the only few large grasshoppers and finally stand up to them~
Quite interesting similarities between the two~
I for one am not interested in being controlled/limited by the powerful major labels anymore.
And, anyone can file a lawsuit, and the more money they have the faster they do/sue, unwarranted or not~
The impending demise of the major labels may or may not play a role in their suit of Grooveshark. To me, this seems like more of a straight legal issue. Is Grooveshark guilty of copyright infringement, or not?
It seems like Grooveshark is trying to scoop up as much of the streaming market as possible. They probably figure that if they have enough traffic, the majors will have no choice but to deal with them favorably.
My point is, maybe this is a precursor to them becoming ‘legal’?
In my opinion, Grooveshark may have rubbed enough people the wrong way that the labels and publishers would rather bury them than deal with them. I guess it will come down to the legitimacy of the lawsuit. If evidence of extensive infringement actually exists, GS is done for. If not, GS may still have a few moves left. Either way, they’re in a precarious position.