Sharkfin

by Mustardamus

A easy-to-setup Grooveshark Remote Control. No requirements other than web browsers and a bookmarklet.

It takes 2 minutes and you control your music coming out of your laptop with your phone.

Having a party? Good, share your Grooveshark with your friends. Connect as many remotes as you want. All can do the same, and see the same.

Judging Instructions

Follow the instructions given on the homepage. Thank you.

tl;dr

Prepare for a glitch. See below. Sorry about that.

1. Browse to mustardamus.nko3.jitsu.com with your browser
2. Save the bookmarklet
3. Browse to grooveshark.com
4. Click on the bookmarklet
5. See the connection code at the top
6. Browse to mustardamus.nko3.jitsu.com with your mobile device
7. Enter the connection code you see on Grooveshark
8. You got yourself a remote control!
9. Goto 6. and repeat with other devices

The glitch, and how to solve it

Unfortunately there is one wrong link in the production mode that prevents loading socket.io via the bookmarklet. There is a simple hack around that, and you can test the entry as advertised.

1. Go to Grooveshark.

2. Go to the address bar and paste in the following code javascript:$.ajax({url: 'https://raw.github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io-client/master/dist/socket.io.min.js',dataType: 'script'});

3. Now the socket.io client is loaded in your Grooveshark window. Just proceed as described above.

Notes

The playlist does not update on initial connect. Hit 'next' on Grooveshark or your remote, and it'll update. Little bug.

Tested with latest Chrome and Opera Mini on a sloppy Android Device.