GrooveWalrus - player for real music lovers

I think that all music lovers have heard about such wonderful services as Last.fm and Grooveshark. A huge number of the most diverse musical information, custom radio, recommendations, statistics and a large number of others, these services have made remarkable properties of a favorite place for many music lovers. However, a few years ago the service Last.fm moved to a paid basis, and under pressure from Grooveshark holders brought such significant limitations, it is their appeal to a much diminished our open spaces.

However, today I want to introduce you to a great program GrooveWalrusWhich not only allow you to use the full capabilities of these two popular online services, but also to use a number of other interesting features.

GrooveWalrus It is a free program that will help you not only to hear for a long time favorite and well-known musicians, but also open up new names for themselves. A variety of musical information it derives from the base of Last.fm, and the playable tracks are downloaded from the archive Grooveshark. At the same time the utility requires no installation and has versions for Windows and Linux.

Interface

I have to say that the interface is not a masterpiece of usability and some users can cause an active rejection. I beg to overcome this first impression and continue all the same familiarity with GrooveWalrus, because of the unsightly appearance and confusing view of its powerful capabilities. Moreover, I am sure that for many people this program will satisfy their musical needs.

As we can see in the screenshot at the top of the window is the standard player controls and the image of the cover of the playing track. Here is the search string, with which you can enter the name of the artist. Note also the key to the hard disk icon - that it will allow you to save the song. Store Directory specified in the program settings.

Below we see a player nine tabs, each of which performs a specific function. For example, the tab Playlist displays the current playlist, Last.fm is responsible for the display of information of the same service, Album It lets you listen to the whole album, Favorites It contains your favorite songs, and so on.

Using

Let's see one of the possible use of the program. Let's say you know the name of an interesting artist and want to become familiar with its music. We enter his name into the search box and press the button with a magnifying glass. A pop-up window with the search results, which includes usually 10-15 compositions. Do not worry, there is so little - this is only the first portion, the most interesting things to come!

Add a Point of songs in a playlist and start listening. Now is the time to more fully acquainted with the work of this artist. To do this, go to the tab Last.fm and we see a number of links on the left.

When you click on Top Songs: Artist you will see a list of the best songs of this artist Top Albums: Artist - the list of released albums, Similar Artists - list of performers of this style and so on. Well, if you choose Similar SongsThen you will be presented with a list of similar songs, consisting of about 250 songs, so it will last for many hours listening. Take into account only that the music information is downloaded from the network, so between pressing the button and the result sometimes takes a few seconds.

Any track can be added to the playlist by one or all at once by using the corresponding buttons with plus sign. Well, if you want to listen to the whole album, simply click on its name and its contents will automatically appear on the tab Album, From which you will be added to the playlist.

Additional functions

We have considered only one of the possible scenarios of application GrooveWalrus. In addition, the program has a lot of interesting features - Display photos and brief information about the artist, texts the songs you play, saving playlists, scrobbling to Last.fm your account, create your own collections, and more more. More program can perfectly cope with playing local music, so it may well claim to be a universal audio player on your system.

Additional features can also be added to the program with the help of special plug-ins, some of them included in the default set of programs. Thus, you see that the program carries a pretty significant functionality, a full description of which is beyond the scope of this article.

Output

Summarizing it should be noted that GrooveWalrus program can become a priceless boon for real music lovers. To freely listen to and download virtually any type of music with the whole set of additional accompanying features far outweigh the awkward interface and having some problems stability. Must have an unambiguous and every recommendation!

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