Made to make music easy to add to any post, Grooveshark for WordPress takes the trouble out of mixing music with your blog. Just install, then enjoy instant access to literally millions of tunes you can use to make your blog posts even cooler. Create playlists of one song — or hundreds — and add them to any part of your WordPress blog as a Grooveshark Widget. Your readers will love you for it.
Installation
- Download the plugin zip file
- Unzip the plugin file to a directory where you will be able to find it
- Upload the /grooveshark/ folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder
- Activate the plugin from your plugins administration screen
- (Optional) Enter your Grooveshark username and password in the settings page to access your favorite songs and playlists. Your login information will remain secure.
- Add music to your posts. The Add Music box will appear below the post content when you edit your posts.
Requirements
- Standard WordPress requirements for Version 2.6+
- PHP 5
- Curl enabled in PHP
- Javascript enabled in browser
- Flash Version 9.0.0+
FAQ
- What exactly does Grooveshark for WordPress do?
- Thinking of a song? Add it to your blog. Be awesome.
- What's the catch?
- There isn't one! You're only limited by the amount of music you can think of. It's all there, it's all free, and it's all waiting.
- I have a problem. What do I do?
- If something breaks, something sucks, or you have any questions + suggestions + thoughts, definitely send us an email! We'll get back to you ASAP.
Screen Shot
You show me yours, I'll show you mine.
Something's gotta give, and in this case it's us — back. Grooveshark simply wouldn't be possible without open source software and the thousands of cool people who contribute to it.
In that spirit, Grooveshark is thrilled to make Grooveshark for WordPress our first project released fully open source. Because the GPL is awesome — and so are you.
Versions and Changelogs
- 05.26.09 - Version 1.0 released for public use
- 06.11.09 - Version 1.1 minor bug fixes to be made compliant with WordPress 2.8
- 12.09.09 - Version 1.2
- Plugin can add widgets to your Wordpress Sidebar
- Plugin can add music feeds to your Wordpress Sidebar
- Plugin can add widgets to your Wordpress Dashboard
- Caching of playlists added
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Grooveshark tracks the best users so you know who can be trusted to deliver quality content. "
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In the turbulent, choppy waters where P2P networks and copyright law chomp at each other's fins for dominance, there's at least one beast that thinks it has a solution to keep everybody happy. Its name: Grooveshark. "
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Free streaming. Social networking. Music discovery. Oh, and reimbursement for sharing when somebody buys a song that you've uploaded to the collective. "
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If you're looking for a way to grab music from peer-to-peer networks without that nagging feeling that you're depriving a starving artist of her next meal (or a label exec of that Learjet upgrade), Grooveshark might help. "
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Grooveshark: a new music service that I can see a lot of potential in. "
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Finally a way to have access to millions of songs, without feeling guilty. "
