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James Hartig replied on November 20, 2009 16:05 to the question "Is there a way to quickly find the bitrate of a song?" in Grooveshark:

There is not. There might be an API method to determine for each song, but I doubt it. If I were you, I would just upload all your songs and Grooveshark will determine and play the highest quality song, or at least it will try.

A comment on the question "Can I upload songs from grooveshark onto my mp3 player?" in Grooveshark:

I wouldn't post something like this on a Grooveshark-moderated site... You are very likely to get shut down. No matter how tricky you can make your program. – James Hartig, on November 17, 2009 01:09

James Hartig replied on November 11, 2009 20:11 to the question "Some more Asian/Anime Music?" in Grooveshark:

I don't know what you want me to say. As I always do, uploading is a personal risk and its up to you to determine if its worth it. I cannot say whether Asian or anime music is checked less or not, I don't see that it would be checked any more though.

Sorry.

James Hartig replied on November 11, 2009 18:47 to the idea "Remove duplicate artists/songs, add artist biography." in Grooveshark:

duplicates have been massively improved in Grooveshark 2.0 but as a standpoint from them, they cannot search through the millions of songs and manually take out all the duplicates. Also, programatically there is really only ID3 tag comparison to try to detect a duplicate.

They are working on better methods, from what I hear.

As far as a biography, I remember discussing this with them a long time ago, where the artist can create a bio, I don't know if its coming or if it is already in the works.

James Hartig replied on November 11, 2009 18:44 to the idea "Sharing Grooveshark" in Grooveshark:

Good idea! I'll suggest it.

James Hartig replied on November 11, 2009 18:43 to the question "Some more Asian/Anime Music?" in Grooveshark:

You can upload whatever Anime and Asian music you want.

James Hartig replied on November 11, 2009 18:42 to the idea "Fixing Tags / Duplicates" in Grooveshark:

I think they are working on such a feature

James Hartig replied on November 09, 2009 19:25 to the problem "Tool tips shown on next and previous buttons when using media player in random mode display wrong song name" in Grooveshark:

Ah! That is a problem, I will forward it to someone and let you know when it gets fixed.

James Hartig replied on November 09, 2009 18:43 to the problem "Tool tips shown on next and previous buttons when using media player in random mode display wrong song name" in Grooveshark:

This is not a bug its a feature to show what is going to play next and what will play if you hit back.

Are you saying it doesn't show what song actually plays next?

James Hartig replied on November 08, 2009 22:18 to the question "Can we rename downloaded songs without artist/album names?" in Grooveshark:

You cannot rename songs yet, they are working on possibly introducing that feature, but it obviously could be used incorrectly very easily.

James Hartig replied on November 08, 2009 22:17 to the question "Why can't I drag and drop my playlists into my built in MediaSmart player in my HP laptop?" in Grooveshark:

No it is not possible. Grooveshark playlists are currently only contained on Grooveshark itself.

A comment on the question "On the legality - and the removal - of uploaded songs" in Grooveshark:

basically no. just because they have a license doesnt mean its already uploaded and idk where you can find a list, sorry. ill let you know if i find something

also, you cannot remove songs you already uploaded and you wont get sued – James Hartig, on November 08, 2009 16:45

James Hartig replied on November 07, 2009 23:35 to the question "On the legality - and the removal - of uploaded songs" in Grooveshark:

Assuming Grooveshark has the licence for the songs, you should be able to. Should Grooveshark not have the licences, then your account will be fine, just upload privileges will be removed if the DMCA finds the songs.

Pretty much, its up to you, whether you want to risk losing your upload privileges or not.

James Hartig replied on November 05, 2009 02:45 to the idea "Queue songs from song page" in Grooveshark:

I don't know if this is what you mean:
http://screencast.com/t/wjOkasD2yVNb

A comment on the question "Grooveshark API" in Grooveshark:

"Unfortunately at this time I'm not granting new access to the API. It's still in development, and work on it has been halted while we work on some other things." Please wait a little bit. – James Hartig, on November 05, 2009 02:39

James Hartig replied on November 03, 2009 20:42 to the question "Grooveshark doesn't load correctly :(" in Grooveshark:

The same exact thing happens in the playstation browser...

James Hartig replied on November 03, 2009 13:53 to the question "Grooveshark on Playstation 3 is now broken :(" in Grooveshark:

Here are some accumulated specs:
http://www.design215.com/read.php?tit...

Here is a screenshot:
I can confirm that login button, create account button and Go Mobile! do not work.

James Hartig replied on November 02, 2009 21:56 to the question "Sometimes it's there; sometimes it's not." in Grooveshark:

I don't know the first question, but search is kinda wacky sometimes.

As far as the second question, that bar is there is there is "unverified content" which only occurs sometime and it usually means a low quality duplicate of something already listed.

James Hartig replied on November 01, 2009 15:08 to the question "Finding the Similar tracks feature" in Grooveshark:

Add some songs to the queue and then click "Radio". Enjoy :)

James Hartig replied on October 30, 2009 17:46 to the question "Downloading other's songs." in Grooveshark:

Grooveshark no longer allows you to download songs. They haven't for a least a year now. Sorry.