Grooveshark, a free music streaming service for web and mobile (if you’re willing to pay up), has updated their Android app to now include the My Music section. Previously, there was only a shortcut to access tunes that you’ve marked as favourites, but My Music also encompasses songs you’ve given positive feedback to as well. This version also fixed a smattering of bugs with Facebook sharing, smiley/frowny music ratings, and syncing issues with radio mode. The UI has also been tidied up a bit, too.
Grooveshark has been pulled from iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry app stores because the music service depends on people uploading music to their servers, which has got music publishers angry with Grooveshark and any cell phone manufacturer that supports them. Of course, the beauty of Android is that you can load up apps from outside the official Market. The nice thing about Grooveshark is that you can pull up songs on-demand, and if you’re only using the web player, it’s completely free and ad-supported. It’s a sociable service too, that plug into Last.fm (though not on mobile yet), lets you connect with friends, see what they’re playing, and share tracks to Facebook. The mobile app has offline caching for those times you’re outside of coverage for streaming, or if you’re not quite sure what to listen to, you can enable Radio mode to let Grooveshark pick stuff out based on your tastes.
Head over to m.grooveshark.com on your Android browser to download the latest app.
[via Grooveshark]