Groove+Shark

= Grooveshark = toc Grooveshark is a music search, recommendation, and streaming service. It offers users a unique ability to search for music to stream, and then save these search results to streamable playlists. It also offers a recommendation service based on music that users select as having liked. Users of Grooveshark can search the site database for songs of any genre. The search engine returns a list of songs that are streamable from the list. Songs found on Grooveshark can instantly be added to the users file or playlists, can be marked as favorite, can be shared or bought for download. Users can also take advantage of Grooveshark radio. This streaming function chooses songs similar to those in the users play lists. These songs can easily be added to the user's playlist directly.

Grooveshark boasts some 15 million songs, 30 Million active users and 13 Million registered users. These users average some 1.2 billion streams per month. The founder and CEO of the company is music enthusiast Sam Tarantino. The company is based in Gainesville, Fl. Grooveshark is one of many new web based music services. See @Pandora for another example.

How is Grooveshark possible?
In a letter to the music industry, Grooveshark 's Sr. VP of External Affairs wrote: > "..there is a distinction between legal and licensed. Laws come from Congress. Licenses come from businesses. Grooveshark is completely legal because we comply with the laws passed by Congress, but we are not licensed by every label (yet). We are a technology company, and we operate within the boundaries of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA). Some would have you believe that those of us who use the DMCA to innovate are inherently infringers and that claiming Safe Harbor under the DMCA is as good as admitting guilt. Not so." —Paul Geller

How does Grooveshark work?
Users should:
 * Create an account
 * Make folders to hold individual play lists
 * Explore Grooveshark's available content by searching for music
 * Begin building play lists and storing them in individual folder

**References**
Escape Media Group. (2011). Grooveshark - About. Retrieved November 14, 2011, from Grooveshark: @http://www.grooveshark.com/about