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People like it because it is LimeWire in a webapp.

Actually, scratch that -- they like it because it lets them listen to whatever the song they want to listen to, whereever they want to listen to it. As far as I know, nobody has that kind of selection anywhere else.

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Youtube does, and is used as a main music player for a lot of people.

Yes, but youtube doesn't have an offline player feature and if it did, the videos would still be larger than Grooveshark audio.

But it is inconvinient for large playlists and is not, primerially designed for playing video.

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