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I’m not happy Grooveshark

I listen music very often during my day, while I’m in front of my mac I usually have some music as background.

I usually use two sites to listen fresh music, ‘Stereomood‘ and ‘The Hype Machine‘, recently I added to the list ‘Grooveshark‘.

After a single day of test I decided to become a Grooveshark VIP user, the difference between ‘regular user’ and ‘VIP user’ is the ability to access to extra features. The feature I’m interested in was ‘Grooveshark mobile’, the ability to listen Grooveshark music from your mobile (Blackberry in my case).

The day before yesterday I decided to download Grooveshark for Blackberry and I began to listen songs from my BB, very nice! It was late so I just tried one song and it worked as normal, really great! I was happy.

Yesterday I honestly don’t know what happened, for the all day I wasn’t able to do anything with Grooveshark, website was quite down (sometimes it loaded, sometimes it did not, but I wasn’t able to listen a single song in the whole day), the situation from my BB was not much different.

Today I re-tried from my mobile (I decided to be a VIP user just for that), but it’s impossible to listen anything.

I searched for ‘Ligabue’ (an italian singer), it found some songs, I selected one of these to “play now”, the player loaded as normal and then the song title changed to another italian singer! It does not make ANY sense!

Anyway, every song you select to play you will get just one message .. it’s not possible to play this song .. so why have I installed this app?!?

When I came back home (under wifi coverage) it loaded everything I want and it played songs .. but if I’m at home I can listen Grooveshark from my mac, why should I listen it from my mobile?

Just to be clear, I can see youtube video from my blackberry (out of wifi coverage), so there is no problem with network ..

I think that Grooveshark mobile is really unusable (it does not play songs). Interface is horrible, but this would not be a big issue if it works .. but it does not!

Become a VIP user costs very few bucks, but this is not a good excuse for this!

I thought “maybe the app is under development”, so it’s right to share problems with developers in order to fix them. To do it there is a “send bug” in the app, I clicked on it (I thought to describe the problem) but I just get a message “the bug was sent” .. what?!? Which bug if I didn’t tell you what’s the problem?!? Another time something that does not make sense to me ..

Anyway I suggest you to try Grooveshark on your computer, it works pretty well (today), but don’t loose time to try Grooveshark for Blackberry, it’s useless! I’m curious to know some feedback from others platform (Android, Nokia and Palm), maybe it’s just the blackberry client to be so bad.

One Comment


  1. audacity dowNload
    Dec 24, 2010

    thanks

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