web-mastered

I like Grooveshark. (If you don’t know what this is, think of it like Spotify without desktop client.) ((If you don’t know what Spotify is, think of it like the YouTube of audio.))

Spotify is the clear superior service in terms of features and usability, but I find myself using Grooveshark all the time. So how come?

I often want to

listen to music on my (restricted) work PC where I can’t install the Spotify client. Grooveshark is browser-based.
share a specific album or a song I like with my friends. They don’t have an Spotify account and maybe will never get one due to Spotify’s international rollout politics. On Grooveshark everybody can listen everything without limits, even without an account.

I understand that Spotify has to deal with legal issues that others don’t take that seriously. But evidently Grooveshark is online for many years now and seems to stay.

After all, the online music space is far from being settled. An announcement from Apple or Facebook could change the tides, once again.