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Just got some feedback from a friend and wanted to share his questions and my responses:

Thanks for the feedback, let me address the specific questions:

Question:

What I don’t like is how the names are messed up (basically like someone who isn’t picky about it on their ipod..) but I am picky so it bothers me to get results like Sound Garden. When the band is Soundgarden.. how you could correct that with user uploads.. I don’t know where to begin.

Answer:
That’s a result of us using mp3s, etc. taken from users’ libraries where the id3 tags are not always 100% correct. This is definitely an issue we’re sorting out and are in the process of completely streamlining. We are also building in a wiki-system that lets users correct songs that are incorrect, etc.

Question:

I like the playlist and free ness of it obv.. I just don’t know why I would use it to play songs I already have ya know.. have you guys thought of making a visualization (or forgive me if I didn’t see an already existing one). I can see myself making a playlist for a party versus using youtube.. but I would want visualizations. Otherwise I did report one mp3 I found.. hehe.

Answer:
Again, something we are in the process of working out — we were thinking of adding visualizers, music videos, games, etc. to keep people active and on the page as opposed to going away a la Pandora.

Please share your feedback with me or the Grooveshark team: feedback@grooveshark.com