This Company was Groovy | Nostalgia Nerd
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@Nostalgianerd
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
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@froggylegspeople
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
Oh well, GrooveShark was the best.
@easyplayer7453
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
I really liked LastFM and GrooveShark
@ericcmi
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
I didn't think Napster ever used the bit torrent protocol. It was all direct connect
@baseletraoficial
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
Grooveshark was the best and the customer service was unparalleled
@unexcompartment2570
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
Moments like these remind me of my age. I used grooveshark from about a year of its conception to when it shut down. Good times man
@daniel-ruben
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
I still have mini-discs full of 80s 12" extended remixes which I downloaded from Napster. Some of my most nostalgic possesions…
@zekibebe3138
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
I use to use grooveshark in middle school probably from 2012 to 2015, the firewall wouldn't block it so I was able to listen to so my favorite songs during class. At some point I switched to spotify. but found out that spotify for some reason couldn't be accessed at school. still used Grooveshark until I realized they shutdown and I had to find another way to get my music.
spotify allowed me to listen to the songs I had on file but also discover of new genres I wouldn't have thought to I'd love…. Still think about Grooveshark though- I use to listen to so many anime songs and house music that shaped my childhood. but still much more happy with spotify, been using it since 2014. sad to hear that was the fate of Grooveshark :^(( it had a lot of potential!
@JerzyLasica
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
Typical sad story. Originals rarely succed. It's the copycats that win. Proof there is no god.
@DarKNess1111x
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
Grooveshark was and always will be the G.O.A.T! They hosted legendary b-sides that have ceased to exist since its demise đ they were also pioneers of music streaming, offering functionality and ease of use that remain unrivaled. I was subscribed to them since '09 until their shutdown. It's a tragedy, but one they invited upon themselves which ushered in the beginning of the end of the internet's golden era . . . If anyone can find "Skeleton Man's Bone Crushing Depression (If I get well)" by Evangelicals, share it, I beg of you. I haven't heard it and have been searching for it for nearly a decade to no avail. I can hardly remember how it goes anymore, but I long to be graced by its somber serenade once again.
@atwoodsmariano
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
This took me back to high school when I would listen to music on grooveshark on my schoolâs library computer – good memories
@Yousef-mohamad92
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
i miss grooveshark so much it was so user friendly and well designed
@xhozt
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
Nope.. Grooveshark was meh. And not first . Rhapsody is older better and still around as Napster .
@_The_Jim
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
its really shows how many different ways to grab music there was back in the early 2000s, I used loads of them, but dont remember grooveshark AT ALL.
These tech company deep dives are really fascinating to me though, even when there isn't a tangible physical product like a games console to show the viewer.
@tommizell
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
I lived in Gainesville at the time, and regularly would have coffee with the Grooveshark devs at Maude's cafe.
Everyone in town used it – still wish I had all the playlists we shared.
@yourcoolunclemarisa
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
I miss Grooveshark so much.
@reiddragon
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
oh God, the Harlem Shake outro really makes me feel ancient
@AB-ll8so
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
and this guy want you to send your dna to someone đ and some people are actually doing so…
@VeshSneaks
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
I used to adore Grooveshark. I loved being able to upload my own stuff, because I used to listen to a lot of J-Pop and game soundtracks. I ended up going to Google Play Music, because of that exact reason. Unfortunately YouTube Musicâs library management is trash, so I use Apple Music instead.
@johnknight9150
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
It's hilarious all the trendy people who complain about Metallica and Napster (people who were too young to even use Napster, or possibly not even born yet), completely unaware that we all just moved to something else like Limewire or Kazaa a month later!
@jayman94fly
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
Okay bro that sponsor transition was on point.
@wafrof
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
To this day Grooveshark is the best music service that ever existed. I remember signing up for their premium service for $3/month in the early days and using it up until the very day it went offline. It blows my mind how Spotify/Youtube Music still pale in comparison to what a couple college kids put together 15 years ago.
@tsht
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
I still miss Grooveshark. Spotify was a huge regression in interface and in choice of musics. Still nowadays I can't find everything I seek on online streaming services (except maybe Youtube, so I use tidal and my own music on a plex server…). Moreover, you had rather nerdy radios while you could chat like a musical twitch, you could upload your own music and share it… It was like some social network of music, I was sharing music and talked about music. So for me I'm still looking forward for a service which would propose nowadays what Grooveshark proposed. Grooveshark story really is a depressing one, including this death…
@SaraSpruce
March 12, 2026 at 4:26 am
Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Seeing the logo brought so much nostalgia. Grooveshark was my go-to music streaming service in high school until Spotify came along.
It's also crazy to think it's almost 14 years since I started using Spotify. I signed up as soon as they opened up registrations in the UK in February 2010. Finland where I live was still invitation-only at that point, so I signed up through some sketchy VPN.
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