Heard of FunkWhale? The open source, federated audio platform?
https://funkwhale.audio/
I hope that it gets to be as good abd popular as GrooveShark was.

also !funkwhale

I was heartbroken when Grooveshark went away. I'd built up so much music and there was a lot of obscure stuff I've never found again.

I know it's not exactly the same, but take a look at https://funkwhale.audio/. A bit like grooveshark for the Fediverse. Maybe this could ease the heartbreak a bit?

I just remember using some sort of downloader for Grooveshark.

Grooveshark was the source of playlists for me, much better than the inferior fratmusic

I was really bummed when I couldn't even log in to copy down what was in my playlists. I have most of those songs in my Spotify now but I know I missed some.

It was a pretty cool music platform. I was sorry to see it go but given the circumstances there wasn't much choice. It's a pity, it could have probably transitioned into a legit music service. The interface was nice and it had some unique features.

From what I remember the thing that sunk it (when it was inevitably sued) was the fact the boss had made all the employees share mp3's to help the platform take off.

Yeah, better than current-day streaming services,I liked the radio feature

Site was awesome. you could find music that wasnt available anywhere else at the time. It was almost my only source for online music until it died.

I used the fuck out of Grooveshark. It was a great platform.

I also used the old version of 8tracks.com when it was awesome, but it died a long time ago and has been replaced with a corpse of its former self

I remember one of the first YouTube videos I made was how to download music from grooeshark. Good times (also don't steal 😉)

Haven’t heard of it before, looks cool though!

It was very nice

Loved it! Even remember having a Grooveshark t-shirt at one point. I migrated to Google Music and then eventually Spotify after Google effectively ruined that.