nanoGroove – Windows Mobile Grooveshark client with Playlist support

January 17, 2010 | By Surur

BestWMApps have reviewed nanoGroove, a Grooveshark client for for Windows Mobile. The application, which costs $5 (free trail available), has a great user interface, as can be seen from the video above. Unfortunately the all important Playlist feature is only available to GrooveShark VIP members, which costs $3 per month or $30 per year.

Read BestWMApps’s full review here and purchase the application at nanoGroove here.

About Surur

Site Admin and Windows Phone enthusiast, he has been using Windows Mobile devices since before they were called PocketPC’s. He is currently sporting a HTC 7 Trophy.

Tagged music, software, streaming audio

http://intensedebate.com/people/peterfares peterfares

I wonder if it is related to groovefish?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=…
The developer made it very quickly but then stalled. Maybe he decided to make it for pay?
Groovefish doesn't work for some people but thankfully works for me.
Its a shame it hasn't changed in months.

Jos Dewey

Hmm, you think so?

Despite being extremely hideous Groovefish worked well, but it suddenly stopped playing anything and just threw up error messages on my old Omnia, so I never bothered trying it on the HD2.

How does this work? Anyone tried it?
Barguast

It's in no way related to Groovefish. For the records, it's still under development (I'm the developer), it's just slow-going at the moment.

joujou

a monthly subscription fee for a playlist feature??? oh, they can go and f*** themselves then. thats the most outrageous thing ive heard in quite a while.
and shame on you for giving that even more publicity.
http://intensedebate.com/people/letsgoflyers81 letsgoflyers81

You don't need a VIP subscription to use the playlist feature, it's free. I have a regular free GrooveShark account and can create playlists on the website and play them back on nanoGroove. BestWMApps realized that statement was a mistake and they've corrected their review.
Rusty

I chipped in as this has a lot of promise. However there's several things I hope are addressed in future updates:

1) It technically supports playlists, but you then have to go through song-by-song and manually load them all into the player. And then you have to switch over the player to play them. A rather clunky process. I'd like to soon/eventually see an 'Add/Play All' option at the top. That would seem relatively straightforward. (and of course have a shuffle option on the playlist itself.)

2) Is it my imagination or is this thing mono? Maybe I'm wrong and the playback in my car on the drive home was just off, but almost every song was distinctly lacking in punch and would be missing whole instrumental sections.

3) I had some issues with the audio no longer working once the device was either locked and the screen shut off or even after I had closed out of the program and then reopened it later. It could have just been a fluke thing in my limited time with the app, but wanted to mention it.

4) The button for the Android-like shade on the player screen is VERY tiny on VGA and above screens.

5) A little pre-caching for the upcoming song once you're nearing the end of a current song for relatively seamless transitions would be nice.

All that being said, I really do love the potential of this app. I kept hoping that somebody like Kinoma would figure out a way to tap into Grooveshark (especially since Grooveshark seems amenable to the idea, they made an official app for Android already.) But if it takes a few enterprising devs to bring it to us in WM land so be it.
groovy

Why doesn't nanogroove use the .com version of the site?? Just knowing they grabbed a .net tells me off the bat that they are not forward thinking strategist. Says a lot about the product too.

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