Grooveshark
Sign in to saveGrooveshark was a web-based music streaming service owned and operated by Escape Media Group in the United States. Users could upload digital audio files, which could then be streamed and organized in playlists. The Grooveshark website had a search engine, music streaming features, and a music recommendation system.
Key facts
- Website.name
- Grooveshark
- Website.logo
- Grooveshark logo horizontal.svg
- Website.commercial
- Yes (freemium)
- Website.type
- Music
- Website.registration
- Optional
- Website.owner
- Escape Media Group Inc.
- Website.launch_date
- Closed on
- Website.current_status
- Defunct
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Wikidata facts
- Headquarters
- Gainesville
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- Commons category
- Grooveshark
- inception
- 2006-03-30
- Alexa rank
- 3147476
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2015-04-30
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Pre-release (2006–2009)
- Flash web player (2008–2012)
- HTML5 web player (2012–2015)
- Shutdown (2015)
- Features
- Critical reception
- Copyright issues
- Universal Music Group
- Independent labels
- See also
- References
Grooveshark was a web-based music streaming service owned and operated by Escape Media Group in the United States. Users could upload digital audio files, which could then be streamed and organized in playlists. The Grooveshark website had a search engine, music streaming features, and a music recommendation system.
The company won a major lawsuit filed by Universal Music Group concerning use of Universal's pre-1972 recordings. Grooveshark was also sued for copyright violations by EMI Music Publishing, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group. Concerns about copyrights led Apple and Facebook to remove Grooveshark's applications from the iOS App Store and Facebook Platform respectively. However, Grooveshark was available in alternative app stores, such as Cydia, Google Play and BlackBerry World. It was also a default application on Ubuntu Touch.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grooveshark” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.