Windows:
- a Windows Operating system
Linux:
- Wine for Linux or run from python source
For Flash plug-in (Windows):
- Flash for Internet Explorer (ie. you should be able to access grooveshark.com with your IE browser).
A new version of GrooveWalrus is out, it fixes 0.206 which has stopped working and adds more stuff. Pre-fetching has been added, which tries to cache the next track ahead of time so that you don't have to wait for the next track to load (currently doesn't work too well in shuffle mode). Also, tried to fix a few non-English character errors that may have been causing you grief. Send me your gw.exe.log files if you run into problems.
- added: added the ability to easily update/modify version numbers for streaming source
- changed: increased the number of results returned from tinysong.com
- changed: streaming files now completely threaded, window no longer locks-up when loading the song
- changed: 'loading' now appears as the status when streaming a new file
- changed: cleaning the now removes all files down to the limit, previously only removed one at a time
- fixed: last.fm top songs for a given tag now returns results with errors
- changed: enabling/disabling scrobbling in the options now saves that permanently (before
it was per session)
- fixed: possibly fixed version updating for next time around
- changed: if scrobbling is turned off, adding to favorites will no longer 'love' the track on last.fm
- added: pre-fetching now occurs when 50% of the current song has played, pre-fetching looks for the next 'pre-fetchable' song and tries to download that song
- fixed: forcing unicode for system directories, may fix problems with non-ascii characters in system paths
- fixed: forcing unicode for file caching, may fix problems with non-ascii characters in file names
- fixed: song collection empty cell checking
It does not work for me with
It does not work for me with grooveshark. Streaming gets stuck in "loading", when I already see the song time+album cover. This happened on the old version sometimes and using the flash plugin helped. Now it also does not work with the flash plugin.
If I right click the flash pop up window, it shows: "Movie not loaded...".
Switching to Dizzler worked fine, though.
Re: It does not work for me with
How is the performance of Grooveshark.com in your web browser (in general)? I noticed yesterday that they were having problems (see: their twitter feed).
Can you try and play one song in GrooveWalrus, wait for 2 minutes (don't do anything), and then select the next song and hit play. The first song may take a long time to start.
If you notice it doesn't play/is slow again can you immediately check grooveshark.com and see how things play there?
Is this your home or work/school internet connection? Is it a fast connection Cable/DSL/dial-up/tin cans and a string?
Also, are you super sure that the song you're trying to play is available at Grooveshark.com?
It seems the problem was just
It seems the problem was just temporary and is now fixed. Could be that it was something with grooveshark.com related.
If it happens again, I'll check the steps you wrote on the previous post.
I'm on my work connection, 40Mbps.