When I received an e-mail from Grooveshark last month regarding an upcoming update, I did something I don’t often do: I decided to check it out. The reason I normally don’t boils down to being a Canadian – yes, living in the Great White North can at times be a little frustrating when it comes to online services. Up here, we can’t use Hulu, Spotify or Pandora. “Sign up to be the first in line when (example service) never launches in your country!”.

Thanks to the fact that my options are rather slim, and also the fact that it’s a great service, I’ve relied on Last.fm (my profile) for most of my online music needs lately. A downside, though, is that I can’t simply pick an album and listen to it. Instead, I pick an artist or genre and then listen to the randomly-chosen music that the system decides to give me. While this has helped me discover new artists, it’s useless when I’m wanting to listen through a specific album.