Music streaming app Grooveshark available again for Android devices

After running into troubles with mobile app stores, and being unceremoniously removed by Google from itsapp store 16 months back, Grooveshark music streaming app has now been made available again for Android devices.

Launched in August 2012, the Grooveshark app - which is run by Gainsville, Florida-based Escape Media Group; and enables users to upload their own music that can be streamed by other users - was first pulled from Apple's App Store within days of its release, owing to copyright-infringement complaints; and then from the Google app store.

While Grooveshark has been reiterating that it has obtained licenses from over 1,000record labels, with works of nearly 25,000 independent artists having been distributed, bigiwg music labels - including Universal Music Group Recordings, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Bros. Records - took the legal route against the company in December last year.

In their filing of an amended copyright-infringement lawsuit against Grooveshark in US District Court for the Southern District of New York last December, the music labels said that the company neither had a license nor authorization for most of the works offered on the website.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that the music labels also claimed that Escape Media had illegally uploaded "thousands of infringing song recordings to the Grooveshark website," Grooveshark said in a recent statement that it has worked with Google to have the contentious app reinstated in the Google Play app store.