Comments on: Music on WordPress.com, via Grooveshark and Clearspring

By: bigtunelover

bigtunelover — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:38:37 +0000

So with all that, is there a way to then embed a Groovsehark playlist widget in a WordPress.com hosted site? I still have not been able to get it to work.

By: angelbc

angelbc — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:32:35 +0000

It’s working prefectly now. I’ve used it many times in the past and moved my blog’s music from iMeem via VodPod in the sidebar to single songs and playlists in individual posts.

It works like a charm

Regards

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:22:29 +0000

From the start, there has been a problem with this Grooveshark widget. I plan to revisit Grooveshark later this month.

By: Mr. Banerjee

Mr. Banerjee — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:09:33 +0000

Dunno. It’s not showing in my wordpress blog.

By: Lala Playlist Widget « Changing Way

Lala Playlist Widget « Changing Way — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:15:15 +0000

[...] In a couple of separate recent posts about web music services, I noted that I like Lala, and that the Grooveshark widget uses the Clearspring platform to work on the widget-wary [...]

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:42 +0000

Grooveshark is pretty cool, i think one of friends was talking about it the other day.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:53:28 +0000

Jay,
Thanks for your contribution.
Nick Drake fled the widget overnight. Sadly appropriate though that may be, I don’t think it’s anything specific to Nick.
It seems that Grooveshark fails over to some playlist or other if told to fire up an empty widget. That’s smooth, perhaps too smooth: it would help if there was some indication that something was amiss.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:35:52 +0000

Hi Andrew, another Grooveshark dev, hoping to shed some light on the Clearspring question.

The Grooveshark widget doesn’t exactly run on Clearspring, but we do use Clearspring for convenient embedding on sites where it might not otherwise be possible. The methods to their madness are a bit convoluted, I’ll give you that.

Our widget feature is very new, and we ran into a consierable few nasty bugs when we first launched. It looks like you were bitten by one of those bugs; your widget is empty. If you want to, you should be able to go back and edit your widget, and you can re-add that song. You shouldn’t have to change your embed code or add it again, the changes *should* be reflected automatically on your post. If you have more issues with the widget, please feel free to contact us directly, too!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:12:59 +0000

Skyler, thanks for your comment.
When I created a Grooveshark widget and specified this WordPress.com, the post generated included the shortcode clearspring_widget. You can see how I got the impression that clearspring are involved.
You can find out about the clearspring platform at clearspring.com.
The issues arose when I previewed the post in progress. A couple of times, the preview showed a widget other than the one I’d created.

By: Skyler Slade

Skyler Slade — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:00:50 +0000

I’m a developer at Grooveshark. What is the Clearspring platform? The Widget was developed entirely in-house from scratch–no platforms of any sort used. Also, what sort of issues were you having earlier?