have yall seen Console.fm ? Crawls the web to find the most trending electronic music and sorts by genres.

I have now! cheers :)

this is awesome, thanks!

that will depend on if they are giving the user a true stream, or doing it as a progressive download. its pandora, I'd assume they would be streaming.

I have never actually tried to download the songs on grooveshark, I'm sure its possible though.

Let me know if you find out. I think it's much harder than the process outlined in the post.

yeah grooveshark is a tad more complicated. I can assure you, we will figure something out by the end of today that will close this issue.

looks to me like grooveshark is giving a stream.

good to hear.

what suggestions do you have on masking the url, would love to hear your input.

Proxy it through a URL on your box i.e. make http://myserver.com/song_id point through to http://soundcloud.com/song_id?secret=params

Solving what?

Only way to really hide the info would be to really stream all content through their box. Then they just could host it themselves in the first place...

This hides your API key from other people.

exactly

Couldn't you essentially call a handler on the Console.fm server which has the key already coded and it makes the request to SoundCloud?

This would avoid the fact that users could see the GET request to the SoundCloud API.

A lot of these services can be gamed and all the songs can be downloaded. You can easily download every song from turntable.fm as well, its not rocket science. Open up the Chrome developer console and look at the network tab...

We are working on securing/masking the url, but at the end of the day, Console.fm is not a true stream, so we cannot securely give the user the song with out the soundcloud .mp3

Please voice any advice you have on this issue or help out, open to suggestions as to we are looking into a proper fix right now.

Reed is a bad ass

totally, and in the future depending on response we might turn on the concurrent play like turntable, just getting started, thanks for the feedback

sorry, you must have come on right at our crash, my quick fingers got it back up lol

maneesh why arent you in the office with us right now :)

I definitely tried to sign up and after submitting the form on the "Keep me Posted" page, I got a 500 internal server error. Good job google