Harold H - Opinions

One of the best features it has is the search...

One of the best features it has is the search bar. Not only do you get to search by relevance, title, album, and popularity, but you also get to enter something else in a secondary search bar. This makes it easier for finding and adding specific songs when, for example, making a playlist of an entire album when it seems that every album you look into doesn't have all the songs. And, the second search bar doesn't load on another page! "The future is full of wondrous commodities of convenience, Billy!"

It doesn't interrupt me with commercials while I'm listening, and I can avoid the ones that load on the page by scrolling to the "popular songs"/"top stations" between the spaces where they appear. Unfortunately, it doesn't have everything, but it has way more than playlist.com does. That website takes user-submitted links that may not work, or may work for a short time. I don't get that here. I won't find out one day that I'm not able to listen to a song because its link(from another website) broke. Sometimes they ask me if I'm still listening, but when you pay money to play songs for your users, why wouldn't you stop the music in the middle of a track? Crossfading and visualisers(video included) are options premium members get to enjoy, but they aren't necessary, and not having them doesn't make or break the experience. Unlike Pandora, which is only good for discovering music you like, I get to search for and choose what I want. Pandora is like some younger sibling grabbing blindly at records out of a box labeled by the genre of any song/album/artist you name; SOMETIMES they get it right. Unlike creating a station on Pandora, I know what qualities I'm searching for. Therefore, I not only get to create playlists made of music I like, but I also get to avoid songs that get played because "you might like it," so Johnny Cash(love his music, don't get me wrong) doesn't weasel his way into every station.

Surveys are helpful, but not if I'm given the percentage I relate with vs the one with the highest number of votes. I.E., thanks for telling me where I stand, but please show me where everyone else is. How many of the other age groups do the rest of the users fall under? That would be more interesting to know. Also, I feel like certain topics are more favored than others. The only questions I've ever gotten are related to clothing, actors, age groups, food, and there was one about home status. Not one question I've been asked in a survey has been related to electronic entertainment. Also, I've been asked repeatedly whether I was male or female. I'd have thought you would have found a way to record that. I know I'm linking to facebook, but it shouldn't be hard. And let's not forget how much memory it uses, which can be detrimental to older computers, but you get what you pay for, and if you're just a regular freeloader, what do you have to lose?

My manager at work showed it to me while he played music on it during one of my shifts, and all in all, it's way better than any other music provider I've tried.

Sun 26 Feb at 12:10 AM on Grooveshark love