Grooveshark Helps You Consume Tons of New Music without Searching For It

Today Grooveshark, an innovative music discovery and monetization platform, is unveiling its new Autoplay feature today that will make music consumption even easier than it was before with this excellent service. With Gorrveshark even if you don’t have a huge library of tracks, you will soon build one - and it will contain only the music that you actually like without making you search for such music.

For those of you who missed our initial (very enthusiastic) review of Grooveshark back in March, this music service is a new way to discover, share, and monetize music in one place. In the model introduced by Grooveshark everyone gets paid via the P2P payments system at place: musicians and record labels, users who own the playlists that generate sales and, finally, Grooveshark itself.

The new Autoplay is a feature that allows you to build an entire music library based on only one song that you like. This feature is intended to keep you entertained constantly, even if your own playlist is empty or lacks things you would like to listen right now. Or maybe you just feel that you keep listen to all the same songs constantly and want to get something fresh for a change. If you enable Autoplay, Grooveshark will send new music to your player constantly based on the music you are already known to like (that very one song you can start with). You can also help Grooveshark’s recommendation engine by voting on the songs that you like - votes can be both positive (it will show the engine that it should feed you more like this) and negative (so that you could show the service that this particular recommendation is terrible). Another advantage is that you can actually save the playlist generated using this recommendation engine to play back later on Grooveshark.

This feature will definitely help Grooveshark users discover tons of new music similar to what they already like. What’s more, musicians will benefit from this model as well because users will be more likely to discover their songs and hopefully buy something if they like it - and that will bring money to the pockets of those unsigned artists that use the service already even if they may be total strangers to the music industry and general public.

The only thing that I can view as a disadvantage to Grooveshark is that you will hardly ever bump into music that does not fit your typical music tastes but that you could suddenly like anyway.

Grooveshark Lite music player is now available with Autoplay for everyone to enjoy and I’d definitely recommend everyone to join me in the crazy music consumption that Grooveshark makes possible.