Grooveshark Lite on Adobe AIR, Well..Fluid

Published by on June 11, 2008

As we work on developing an AIR application or have you the developer community at Grooveshark craft it from our APIs, here is an interim solution that gives you all the elegance of an AIR app without all the coding needed.


Fluid allows you to create SSB (site specific browser) windows that are reminiscent of the days of multiple windows of Internet Explorer in the 90s. Luckily, Fluid is built on the Cocoa platform making it more efficient, stable, and usable than IE, but also limiting it to Mac only.

To get started on your Grooveshark “app” download Fluid, and then create a new applet with the URL “http://listen.grooveshark.com/” and create it. Once created, you can easily use Grooveshark in a separate window and never get the ‘annoying shit, I just closed Firefox and now my playlist is gone because I didn’t save it’ feeling.

Any other cool apps you are using for the Grooveshark platform?

Update: Colin has pointed me to Prism, a Firefox extension that offers similar use on a PC