Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform
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Given the number of public Spotify playlists, I'm a little surprised that TIDAL, Deezer, or Qobuz clients don't have native support for pasting URLs to public Spotify playlists. Even if it couldn't authoritatively match the songs and instead played the first search result match (for artist name and song title), it would be right 99% of the time.
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_in_compilation
Spotify actually got sued after some users uploaded playlists that copied ministry of sound playlists, so there is some history of actual litigation in this area.
It only works with Apple Music, which isn't the app I use. Also, when I paste a public Spotify playlist URL (source), it asks for my Apple Music credentials instead of creating a public Apple Music playlist or if that's not possible, generating a page with play links.
Still, it's trying to solve the same problem and may work for others. I appreciate the link.
While it works fine for 'popular' music, like almost all music platforms and tools it totally sucks for classical music (and I appreciate Songwhip is a free and cool thing, not complaining!). While it'll mostly find the same piece of music on different platforms, often they will be different recordings which isn't appropriate.
I say this because linking to recordings across platforms is a key part of my partner's workflow, and a tool like this (if customisable landing pages could be easily created/curated) would be a game changer!
I designed and built Songwhip (solo) and continue to work on it fulltime. Happy to answer any questions :)
Two questions: 1. Do you plan to monetize it to aid in the sustainability of this product? 2. Any thoughts on implementing this functionality for playlists?
2. I don't have the bandwidth to take on playlist functionality at this time. I'm trying to focus the offering and really nail the original problem before taking on new challenges. I've seen competitors try to spread themselves too thin and end up not doing anything exceptionally.
Hope that makes sense :)
1. There is a good preview when the link is shared on networks such as Slack, Twitter etc.
2. It’s fast / low latency, the lower the barrier to sharing with others the better and the less something gets in my way the more likely I am to use it.
Keep up the great work!
Where are you fetching or how are you determining the track IDs for each service? Is it a simple metadata search through each API, are you using some of the reference data from Musicbrainz, or is there another good source of these relationships available?
The Echo Nest used to have a great open-access API for cross-referencing track IDs called Rosetta Stone. Unfortunately, Spotify discontinued it a few years after acquiring The Echo Nest.
While I understand why the streaming platforms might think it's in their interests to make cross-service track relationships difficult to determine, I'm disappointed that Spotify shut down a useful service that really helped music lovers. From some brief searching earlier today, it looks like no one has taken up the mantle yet.
Maybe add a link to save it on archive.org to your ...-menu? Like so: https://web.archive.org/save/https://songwhip.com/drexciya/y...
If I type 'Gigi Masin Tears of a clown' into the search, I get no results. If I type 'Gigi Masin', then the track appears near the top of the search results.