GROOVESHARK

So, Grooveshark finally crumbled from legal pressure. I routinely listened to it as I worked, both with my job and whenever I worked on games, and I heard a lot of music I never would have been exposed to, which, regardless of legality, was a good thing. There are other services like this now, so I'll move on, but I'm going to miss it.

Slight silver lining if you used Grooveshark:

http://groovebackup.com

You can export text files of your playlists. It's going to be a pain in the ass to recreate these in Spotify (or whatever you move to), but it's something. I'm not sure if the lists are complete or not; they're kind of jumbled up, so I can't tell at a glance. The songs I spot-checked are all there, though. Also, if it can't retrieve one of your playlists, try again later. The two of my playlists that didn't load last night loaded fine this morning.