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Lesotho-born and raised, Nancy Messieh, The Next Web's Middle East Editor, is an Egyptian writer and photographer based in Cairo, Egypt. Fol Lesotho-born and raised, Nancy Messieh, The Next Web's Middle East Editor, is an Egyptian writer and photographer based in Cairo, Egypt. Follow her on Twitter, her site or Google+ or get in touch at [email protected]
The key to any decent music player, at least as far as convenience is concerned, is none other than having access to keyboard shortucts. Using a Web-based service like Grooveshark can be a frustrating experience, if each time you want to skip or pause a song, you have to pull the site up to do it.
Now thanks to Groove Shark Control Centre, depending on your set up, you can take advantage of a few convenient keyboard shortcuts.
The little app, which sits in your menu bar, will come come in handy if you happen to be a Mac user, and if you happen to opt for Chrome as your browser. If you fulfill both of those requirements, you can start controlling all your Grooveshark listening through the dedicated Mac media keys, and a few extra shortcuts.
Grooveshark is still dealing with its fair share of controversy and law suits. January saw it sued by EMI and forced offline in Germany, but the site is still forging ahead, and introduced its HMTL5 mobile app in the midst of all of that.
Third party developers, like those behind GSCC, have also been hard at work creating apps and sites to enhance the Grooveshark experience. You can find an interesting set of options available here.