I've been getting a few questions lately, about the search limits on the Search form. The search results limit is 32 results, however Grooveshark (and therefore GrooveWalrus) usually returns far less than that. Now if someone wants to report this as a problem (Tinysong API returns less than 32 results) to GrooveShark (http://getsatisfaction.com/grooveshark) feel free.

However, one of the pillars GrooveWalrus was built on was to allow me to NOT search through my song collection (or GrooveShark's, or Dizzler's, or ...) to generate playlists.

Searching through your hard drive and seeing the 'safe' albums you know are good and just playing those, combined with not wanting to seek out the good songs from the crappy albums generally amounts to playing only 10% of your music collection. What if there was a way to get a list of the top songs for a certain band, or songs that were similar to one you already liked, or the best songs on an album, or the top 100 songs last year? You know, (play)lists of songs that are pre-made for you, so you don't have to dig around your harddrive. Hey! The internet has a bunch or lists like that. Last.fm in particular has a whole bunch, but other websites do too.

So, from that, we have the Last.fm tab and the List Sifter tab, which are a couple ways to generate playlists in GrooveWalrus. Combine the ability to generate playlists with pretty much any song, with a collection of pretty much every song, and you get GrooveWalrus.

So, if that seems familiar, it is, because it's pretty much the same as iTunes, Pandora, Grooveshark, ... , etc. Hopefully though, mashing all those things into one application and focusing on letting you pick a few variables to quickly generate a playlist, makes something useful.