Groovedown on Linux
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Thanks to a user called Ratz we are able to provide you a tutorial to make Groovedown run on Linux with the help of Wine.
What you need is Groovedown and of course Wine.
- Download Groovedown from http://groovedown.me/download/ ( the Windows Version.. a Version for Linux only will follow
) - Create a Folder on your system in which you want to save Groovedown. In my case it is “~/Groovedown” , just type „mkdir ~/Groovedown“ into the terminal
- Move the downloaded Archive into the created folder with the “mv” command ( in my case it is „mv Groovedown.rar ~/Groovedown/“ )
- The archive can be opened with some extracting program. On Archlinux i install “Unrar” with the following command: „pacman -S unrar“ on Ubuntu it is “sudo apt-get install rar unrar unrar-free“
- Now we exctract the archive with the following command : “unrar e Groovedown.rar“
Okay that’s the very basic everyone of you should know. Since the application is designed to work on Windows we need to create a Windows environment on Linux, what we can do with the help of Wine ( http://www.winehq.org/ )
- We install wine via our Package Manager. On Archlinux we type : „pacman -S wine” , on Ubuntu it is “sudo apt-get install wine1.3” or check This if you need help.
- You can now start Groovedown in the “~/Groovedown” Folder. Using this command: “wine groovedown.exe” .
That is what you get then. It is not the prettiest Gui on the world but that only happens because we run it on Linux and it was not designed for that 
.
In my case the Downloadpath is „~/Groovedown/Downloads/“ but you can change it in the Settings menu. Clicking File – > Open Downloadfolder you can directly access the folder you’ve choosen.
Have Fun using Groovedown
~Tutorial provided by Ratz
Hallo,
geht leider nicht:
$ wine groovedown.exe
err:service:RPC_Init RpcServerUseProtseq failed with error 1703
err:wineboot:start_services_process Unexpected termination of services.exe – exit code 1703
fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L”Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls” (6.0.0.0)
fixme:winsock:NtStatusToWSAError Status code 7bcb635c converted to DOS error code 7bcb635c
fixme:win:WINNLSEnableIME hUnknown1 0x1008e bUnknown2 0: stub!
fixme:win:WINNLSEnableIME hUnknown1 0x1008e bUnknown2 -1: stub!
fixme:win:WINNLSEnableIME hUnknown1 0x2008e bUnknown2 0: stub!
fixme:win:WINNLSEnableIME hUnknown1 0x2008e bUnknown2 -1: stub!
Und es kommen nur 2 Popups mit “Ist Grovveshark down?”
Läuft leider nicht. Bin aber auch hinter einem Proxy, Variablen sind aber gesetzt. Über den Webbrowser und die normale Webseite geht Grooveshark aber.
Grüße
Laberman
Ja wurde mitlerweile von mehrere berichtet der Fehler, aber funktioniert auch bei vielen Leuten … deswegen ist es relativ schwierig festzustellen, was nun genau schief gelaufen ist. Ich verspreche das es spätestens in der Java Version komplett laufen wird
Sprich einfach ein wenig Geduld haben. Grüße
Hallo,
also ich HATTE den fehler auch.. In der Wine Konfiguration war als Windows Version Windows 7 eingestellt. Mit Windows XP funktioniert es bei mir einwandfrei.
thx
Would just like to mention how great it works with Wine 1.3 in Ubuntu 10.10. Absolutely nothing’s wrong except for the duration always listing zero seconds on a song but that’s a tiny complaint. Perhaps previews would also be good but songs download so fast it’s not strictly necessary.
work it!!
Hi!
When I run wine, it writes:
wine groovedown.exe
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub
fixme:win:WINNLSEnableIME hUnknown1 0x100a6 bUnknown2 0: stub!
fixme:win:WINNLSEnableIME hUnknown1 0x100a6 bUnknown2 -1: stub!
fixme:win:WINNLSEnableIME hUnknown1 0x200a6 bUnknown2 0: stub!
fixme:win:WINNLSEnableIME hUnknown1 0x200a6 bUnknown2 -1: stub!
fixme:win:WINNLSEnableIME hUnknown1 0x300a6 bUnknown2 0: stub!
fixme:win:WINNLSEnableIME hUnknown1 0x300a6 bUnknown2 -1: stub!
And it prints me
“Is Grooveshark down? Check it or update!”
then
“If this error stays even if Grooveshark is online, CONTACT US!”
then
“Error EIdOSSLConnectError: Error connecting with SSL.
EOF was observed that violates the protocol”
What could I do?
Hey DRerAGO!
Unfortunately we cant tell what this error means. But there were a couple of other users who experienced the same problem, and it seems that the ssl lib, which is stored in the dll files cant be loaded properly and because of that, a connection to GrooveDown cant be established.
Right now there is not much you can do. This is some issue with your wine and we are not able to support that. BUT what we can ensure is that these problems wont happen in the Java Version, so stay tuned for it!
your GrooveDown Team
hey guys
i had the previous version running without any problems, however after updating to 0.64 it didn’t work anymore. For me it helped to switch to winXP mode (winecfg on terminal -> combobox at the bottom -> win xp).
Runs flawlessly again. Keep up the great work
Groovedown…
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An app that needs Wine to works on Linux… bah, that’s not the right way.
I’ll keep searching another util to download my music
Finally, I found the perfect groovesharkdownloader for Linux. Thanks to you guys I can leave Windows behind once and for all. Great work.
)
(Too bad it still needs wine, but it seems you’re working on that
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Great you are working on java version that mean we won’t possibly need wine awesome !!!!!!!!
The program works great on Ubuntu 10. Thanks!
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Has anyone been able to use WineBottler to turn Groovedown into a native .app? I’d be interested.
Love it a lot!
But I miss a native-linux release! Please!
Thanks a lot in advance!
Schreib doch bitte dazu , dass man wine von windows 7 auf windows xp umkonfigurieren muss
When is the Java version coming out?
ubuntu 11.04 working ok
how do you download?
To use Version 0.7 on Linux you have to execute the groovedown_setup.exe using wine. After that, open the Java-Archive File “GrooveDown.jar” in your installation-path with the command “java -jar GrooveDown.jar”. If you try to open it with the GrooveDown_Start.exe, it fails and says you have to install Java even when its already installed.
I have an error. Can you help?:
carsten@carstenNBUbuntu:~$ java -jar ‘/home/carsten/Programme/GrooveDown.jar’ Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jdesktop/application/SingleFrameApplication
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:634)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:277)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:73)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:212)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jdesktop.application.SingleFrameApplication
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)
… 11 more
Could not find the main class: groovedown.GrooveDownApp. Program will exit.
Hi Carsten,
try to run the Jar-File from the directory in which you’ve installed it.
Do a ‘cd /home/carsten/Programme/’ and then run ‘java -jar GrooveDown.jar’. This should work.
Hello!
I have found the GrooveDown programs on their website!
I have found both the current version and the new 0.7Alpha version!!
Download Current 0.67 for windows: http://fileups.net/1m5b_
Download Alpha 0.7 for windows: http://fileups.net/1m5b54
It is not necessary to use wine and windows java machine for Groovedown
Program is written in pure java
You need to extract somehow .jar files. Run windows installer in real windows or in wine
not to have the program installed but to make it do its dirty job to unpack the files
Once you have jars simply do :
java -jar GrooveDown.jar
and that’s it ! It perfectly runs in native linux environment
EXE can be deleted – no need for windows EXE starter in linux
Executing the java-file I get the output
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: groovedown/GrooveDownApp
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: groovedown.GrooveDownApp
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)
Could not find the main class: groovedown.GrooveDownApp. Program will exit.
Is there any solution for this problem?
Hey Monty,
do you have a “lib” folder next to the groovedown.jar ?
means you have one directory:
/gd which contains:
groovedown.jar
and another directory /lib
which contains a couple of jar files…
but you need to have this file structure because groovedown.jar needs that lib folder and the containing jar files and it tries accessing a folder named “lib” located in the same location as the groovedown.jar itself.
Please check that, if it doesnt work contact us again.
Btw: du kannst uns auch in deutsch kontaktiere + wenn du eine Mailadresse hinterlässt können wir per Mail noch intensiver dem Problem auf den Grund gehen als über die Kommentarfunktion hier..