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James Hartig replied on December 22, 2009 19:45 to the question "Grooveshark on Playstation 3 is now broken :(" in Grooveshark:

Alright, popular doesn't work. Just displays loading...
However, recent does. Library doesn't load and there is major breaks when clicking items and loading things.

James Hartig replied to "Grooveshark on Playstation 3 is now broken :(", but it was removed. see the change log

James Hartig replied on December 17, 2009 16:13 to the problem "Can't login with the correct Login" in Grooveshark:

Make sure you are logged out of the first PC and clear all your cookies and cache on the second PC and try again. What operating system is it?

A comment on the problem "Songs wont buffer very fast." in Grooveshark:

Ya there might have just been a server issue or network congestion. They are working on improving the experience. – James Hartig, on December 16, 2009 21:55

James Hartig marked one of Valdemar Nyhlén's replies in Grooveshark as useful. Valdemar Nyhlén replied to the problem "Songs wont buffer very fast.".

James Hartig replied on December 16, 2009 21:52 to the problem "Songs wont buffer very fast." in Grooveshark:

Grooveshark is overloaded with traffic and they are working on moving some over to a CDN during peak times. Is it just that song or all songs?

A comment on the question "What's the problem? Can't upload!" in Grooveshark:

I would like you to try one last time. Make a brand new folder, put just the mp3s you want to upload in there (and NOTHING else) and add the folder. If it still doesn't work, email me a zip or the mp3s. Email: fastest963 at gmail.com – James Hartig, on December 14, 2009 20:40

A comment on the question "What's the problem? Can't upload!" in Grooveshark:

I do not know Jay, just it seems that any other non-mp3 songs in the same folder screw it up. – James Hartig, on December 14, 2009 20:39

James Hartig replied on December 14, 2009 02:43 to the problem "Android App Complaint #3: App Not Responding" in Grooveshark:

What phone do you have?

James Hartig replied on December 14, 2009 02:42 to the problem "Android App complaint #1: The play/pause/ff/rw buttons are too small." in Grooveshark:

Please combine into ONE post next time.

James Hartig replied on December 12, 2009 20:40 to the question "What's the problem? Can't upload!" in Grooveshark:

Create a folder inside your desktop and drag the song into there. Open up your desktop then open the folder (inside the grooveshark app) and hit select.

James Hartig replied on December 12, 2009 18:23 to the problem "Key Bank account access locked out on their website because of access from Mint" in Mint.com:

Well I understand that, but at least for the time being I will be able to use Key Bank. (Unless the above reports are false and it doesn't work in both)

James Hartig replied on December 12, 2009 17:00 to the problem "Key Bank account access locked out on their website because of access from Mint" in Mint.com:

This is unacceptable. They said "it requires some further effort on our part", alright well isn't 10 months enough time to put some further effort into the situation? I'm switching to Quicken Online and hope it supports it.

A comment on the idea "Buffering the next song before the previous has ended" in Grooveshark:

The way that grooveshark works is that it assigns a server based on the song you requested (because not all servers have all songs).

If you are going to rewrite the URLs, you get a 400 error from akamai or otherwise from the PHP script that Grooveshark is running because when the stream was activated the akamai server was not specified.

If you could, provide the range of IPs that resolve to Iceland. This would be easy (depending of if they have it implemented) for Grooveshark to redirect your requests. In the meantime, just deal with the lag. Should Grooveshark move all of its songs to akamai, then well, this thread would be pointless ;) – James Hartig, on December 11, 2009 22:03

A comment on the idea "Buffering the next song before the previous has ended" in Grooveshark:

Grooveshark does not operate a server in Iceland. Please see the following image:
http://screencast.com/t/OTA4ZTA1O
They are streaming the songs using a CDN and therefore it seems that akamai (http://www.akamai.com/) has a server in Iceland, but as far as grooveshark operating a server in Iceland is false. I can prove this because (as shown in the picture) all the locations have a CNAME result that points to edgesuite.net, which is owned and operated by Akamai.

I will play around with it and see what is going on with those 40%. – James Hartig, on December 11, 2009 21:52

James Hartig replied on December 11, 2009 18:47 to the problem "Playing Quits at Random Blank (Grey) Page" in Grooveshark:

I have Chromium also, but on Windows, I will test some things out, I assume the same doesn't happen on Youtube or any other sites? What version of Flash do you have?

James Hartig replied on December 11, 2009 18:44 to the idea "Buffering the next song before the previous has ended" in Grooveshark:

Akamai is a CDN for media streaming and for Grooveshark (which I was unaware they streamed music through their CDN) that could get very expensive. I'm unaware of this though.

From experience, different songs are hosted on different servers, so technically if you limited yourself to only akamai, while fast, your song choices would be vastly limited. There are ways to force yourself to only Akamai using DNS hacks, but I would wait until either I or boxmonkey give confirmation that they have all songs uploaded and avaliable on akamai.

James Hartig replied on December 11, 2009 04:59 to the problem "Playing Quits at Random Blank (Grey) Page" in Grooveshark:

You said Chromium browser, so you are using the nightly builds then? Have you installed the latest version of the Chrome beta for linux, just released the other day? When the page turns grey, does it say something like Aww snap, something went wrong" or something indicating that Chromium failed or does the page still function?

James Hartig replied on December 09, 2009 18:41 to the question "Automatically add songs to Grooveshark library from an M3U?" in Grooveshark:

Read my mind! I just suggested this feature and I will keep you posted on the progress.

James Hartig replied on December 08, 2009 04:03 to the question "how to delete more than one song from your playlist" in Grooveshark:

Hold ctrl to select multiple songs. If you want to select all press ctrl+a.
If you want to select a bunch of songs, click the first song you want to delete, then hold shift and select the last song you want to delete.

Play around with those and let me know how it goes.