2012-09-01, 02:53
I just wanted to relay this to everyone having the same problems I am - hopefully this will get resolved sooner or later:
Hello,
I was recently setting up my Home Theater PC and installed XBMC as the media library. I was excited to see an XBMC add-on for Grooveshark. The add-on worked great (intermittently) but after a few minutes nothing would play from Grooveshark. I went to the site from my PC browser to test if my connection was the problem, and suddenly no songs will play - and it skips through my playlist giving the message "It looks like there may be an issue with the song you selected. We'll move to the next song."
This happens on every song on the site. I can still search, etc. but can no longer play any songs (the URL when copied and pasted reads grooveshark.com/notFound). After some research I read about IPs being banned for 3rd party downloading. I hope that does not apply to the XBMC plugin, as it only streams, and does not attempt to download. Let me know if there is anything I can do to remedy this issue.
-Chris
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Hey Chris,
Thank you for taking the time to contact us. Using the XBMC app will not work properly with Grooveshark. It is currently considered a third party app in violation of our Terms of Service due to tapping into our API without access. We actually tried reaching out to the developer multiple times because we liked the app and he was using an expired API key. He never responded, though. Unfortunately, since he is using an expired API key, there is not a whole lot we can do about this if he does not respond to our emails. I went ahead and unblocked your IP but please know if you continue to use XBMC for Grooveshark your IP will continued to get blocked. Please let me know if you have questions or concerns. I would like to help.
Best,
Grooveshark - Community Developer
Hello,
I was recently setting up my Home Theater PC and installed XBMC as the media library. I was excited to see an XBMC add-on for Grooveshark. The add-on worked great (intermittently) but after a few minutes nothing would play from Grooveshark. I went to the site from my PC browser to test if my connection was the problem, and suddenly no songs will play - and it skips through my playlist giving the message "It looks like there may be an issue with the song you selected. We'll move to the next song."
This happens on every song on the site. I can still search, etc. but can no longer play any songs (the URL when copied and pasted reads grooveshark.com/notFound). After some research I read about IPs being banned for 3rd party downloading. I hope that does not apply to the XBMC plugin, as it only streams, and does not attempt to download. Let me know if there is anything I can do to remedy this issue.
-Chris
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Hey Chris,
Thank you for taking the time to contact us. Using the XBMC app will not work properly with Grooveshark. It is currently considered a third party app in violation of our Terms of Service due to tapping into our API without access. We actually tried reaching out to the developer multiple times because we liked the app and he was using an expired API key. He never responded, though. Unfortunately, since he is using an expired API key, there is not a whole lot we can do about this if he does not respond to our emails. I went ahead and unblocked your IP but please know if you continue to use XBMC for Grooveshark your IP will continued to get blocked. Please let me know if you have questions or concerns. I would like to help.
Best,
Grooveshark - Community Developer