GrooveDown 0.7.0 Alpha Release
Ahoi o/,
Before writing anything else, here the long awaited and promised download:
Yyep, after a couple of months ( we didnt start right away, reallife problems, family, etc, etc… ), and a delay of 23h after our initial release date, we finally uploaded you GrooveDown 0.7.0
The first thing you will recognize is, that we moved away from uploaded.to You are now downloading the Archive directly from our server. This applies only to the java version though, since the older GrooveDown version will be rolling out anyway.
The second important thing you will have noticed is the appendix ‘ALPHA’. We have been asked whats the deal with it. Well, by Alpha we mean that this is the first snapshot of our new lineup. It contains lots and lots of bugs and is under HEAVY developement. So want you to report any bugs and/or suggestions you have in our new support section: http://groovedown.me/support-forums/ You dont need to register yourself to post, so feel free to leave your feedback.
Speaking of new section: we are also introducing our roadmap http://groovedown.me/roadmap/. While its still empty, we will use it to keep you up to date with features/bugfixes in upcoming release. They will be seperated by urgency for bugs, and priority for features. Top prioritised features are to 100% showing up in the release, while others may or may not be implemented.
The releasecycle is another important thing you may want to hear about. Well, in the past the releasedates where very sporadic. As already anounced, we are going for a monthly release. Of course we cant promise anything ( as for the 0.70 release ), but there shouldnt be more than one or two days delay, if any.
So, what can our released version do today?
Its larger, its resizable. You can search for Songs as well as for Artists, Albums and Playlists. To do so you dont need to enter your searchterm again, but simply navigate over the tables by the buttons. You are able to expand and include Artists, Albums and Playlists. We call these categories ‘container’. You can select single Songs from each container, or add all Songs of it. Adding/Removing songs, expanding/including containers should be selfexplaining, but a demo video will follow in the helpsection.
Something alot of users asked for are parallel downloads. GrooveDown 0.70 provides them, you can download as much songs at the same time as your computer and bandwidth can handle! Just switch to Settings and choose your prefered amount. Your changes are saved by selecting another tab.
What will happen next?
As you will notice, there are still alot of bugs ( well, its an alpha ) and anomalies, we are going to kill. Our goal for the 0.7.1 release next month is to make GrooveDown more stable, and to add as feature the ‘User Section’. As today, you can only search for you playlist by name and hope to find it. In 0.7.1 you will be able to log in to your Grooveshark account, and to browse your library and playlists, and to download from them.For more detailed infos about upcoming releases, check our roadmap.
Of course, we want to thank YOU for your great support and patience. You are our biggest motivation, and we will improve the quality of groovedown to make you as happy as we can.
We also wan to thank GrooveShark, for their great service. Get a grooveshark plus account, and support them even more than you support us.
How is the natve Linux version going? Or will you keep the java version?
Well stick to Java. We’ll just improve it more and more!
Greets
it works great in wine….
not sure if trolling, or just stupid. ^^
Are you mad or just stupid?
Just run
$ java -jar Groovedown.jar
This starts ne cool new Java-Version of GrooveDown natively without wine.
Salut, le design et pas baux du tous !
Pas Baux = not good?
Where is your problem? Make a screenshot please
i CANT USE IT NORTON INSITE FLAGGED IT UNTRUSTWORTHY WS1 and removed it
Dude,
we already replyed to you on Facebook.
Did you had a visit from Captain Capslock and the Shiftcrew or why do you use uppercase-words all the time?
Would be better to tell us which file is flagged exactly: groovedown.jar ? groovedown_start.exe?
As written on Facebook these files are completely clean you are allowed to check it yourself.
Well, the fact you’re using Norton tells me you don’t know much about computers. So Norton (which flagged it probably because it didn’t like the icon colors or some other dumb crap like that) flagged it and you go up in arms because “you paid good money for this software and its the best and knows everything better than any human.” So therefore its a virus? Sound about right?
Just a huge huge thank you guys!!!!!
! Seriously, thank you so much! The new release is just super! 
Big up to you guys!
Working like a charm as for now! Good Job!
What about using Groovedown Alpha in Mac OSX Snow Leopard? Getting msg “This tool requires Java Runtime Environment Version 1.6 or newer to run. Please download and install the JRE and run this setup again.” Is this a problem with Wine? All versions of Java are up to date on my Mac.
Hey what about starting the Jar directly via Commandline?
using: “java -jar groovedown.jar”
Running it this way results in an error. Here’s what I got in my Terminal:
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jdesktop/application/SingleFrameApplication
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jdesktop.application.SingleFrameApplication
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
… 12 more
Is the lib directory in the same directory as the Groovedown.jar? It contains external classes ( like SingleFrameApplication ) which are required by Groovedown.
To handle this case efficiently, id like you to move your questions and bugreports to our forum: http://board.groovedown.me/
look here:
http://board.groovedown.me/showthread.php?tid=6&pid=44#pid44
How long does it take for a change made in Grooveshark to show in Groovedown? ie adding a new playlist…
Thanks.
hmm, kind of…instantly? ^^ once you can find your playlist over the grooveshark interface, you find it via groovedown. So after you created a playlist, you should be able to search for it and to find it. If you cant, doublecheck the playlist name, and search over grooveshark if you are not sure about groovedown.
I do not understand but the programme stops downloading at 25 files. Then it says “queued” and every next file is “waiting”… What is the problem ?
Hi there,
I wanted to try the new alpha, but 7zip and RAR-unpacking-tool both say that the archive is corrupted. Any chance to get this fixed?
Dude,after unpacking it, both files: start.exe and .jar can’t open! The problem’s name: _JVM_LoadSystemLibrary@4, can’t find the point! Whattafreck?
Hi, ich denke mal, das es ein cooles Programm ist, aber irgendwie klappt bei mir nicht, die älteren Versionen wollen nicht starten und der obige link wird von Antivir mit Verweis auf MalWar bzw. Traojaner geblockt (>>> ‘TR/Gendal.KD.385912′)
danke für Hilfe im voraus
Hier ein Statement dazu: http://groovedown.me/when-antivirus-companys-go-crazy/
Wir kümmern uns darum aber Groovedown ist definitiv frei von jeglicher Malware.
Liebe Grüße
GOGOGOGO!!!
I feel so stupid for asking this, but where in the world is the download?
so is et !!
no work
How is it that it worked just fine one day and when I tried it again today it just won’t work…. I’m searching a song or a band but the results never turn up. The little wheel just keeps turning and turning. Am I doing something wrong?
no work!
it doesn’t work. searching infinity loop… what to do?
Use the latest download. Not the old one!
Hi
Thanks for the new version, awesome !
When will you release the MAC version ? (I just got a MBP)
Cheers
Soon Buddy, soon!
I can’t figure out how to search? When i’m searching on the file GrooveDown.jar the wheel is just rolling. Nothing happens? Any idea or tips? Nice graphic interface :O
hi,
the main problem is that we havent figured out why for some people the search does work and for some it does not…
we’ll update you soon
thanks for your patience
LONG LIVE GROOVEDOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE YA ALL!
Hey i love groovedown, but when i try to download this update, it says download does not exist! need help :/
Hi, my groovedown 0.7 isn’t working….when i search a song nothing happen, but it worked time ago.
I’m from Italy.
BTW ty for all the effort and the work you did.
ubuntu users: after you download and exptract linux version, go into folder, right click on groovedown.jap and select “open with openjdk…
very nice, tanks