[HN Gopher] Songwhip - Share a music link to every platform
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Songwhip - Share a music link to every platform
Author : styfle
Score : 79 points
Date : 2020-08-23 16:34 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| wilsonpage wrote:
| Hey I'm Wilson,
|
| I designed and built Songwhip (solo) and continue to work on it
| fulltime. Happy to answer any questions :)
| marmshallow wrote:
| Awesome product. Are there any worries that platforms may
| restrict the APIs that you depend on?
| anotheryou wrote:
| Really cool!
|
| 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...
| troydavis wrote:
| I'd love to see the same for public playlists. Example: an
| anonymous user pastes the URL to a public playlist that someone
| else made on, say, Spotify. The Web app creates a public playlist
| on another platform -- or even just spits out a bookmarkable
| "Playlist equivalent page" that has Songwhip links for each
| tracks (and the user has to play each one).
|
| 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.
| Closi wrote:
| I assume because these count as material for which Spotify
| technically has copyright over, or at least has been assigned a
| license to use, so importing them into a competitor app is
| likely to cause litigation.
| troydavis wrote:
| I'm referring to songs that the other apps also have. As an
| example, both Spotify and TIDAL have licenses for - and will
| happily play - the vast majority of the North American
| catalog. Spotify has more user-created public playlists, but
| not a ton more music.
| Closi wrote:
| I mean collections of songs (ie playlists) are themselves
| copyrightable. Even if they have the songs licenced, they
| cannot copy playlists from Spotify without risking legal
| action.
|
| 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.
| troydavis wrote:
| Thanks, that's fascinating. At least from a cursory
| search (https://www.google.com/search?q=are+public+playli
| sts+copyrig...), conclusive case law doesn't seem to
| exist in the US. In the UK, the one case I found was
| settled (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/
| 27/spotify-m...) and didn't address an app/company
| attempting to enforce a copyright license received when a
| user created a playlist. It's not clear in either
| jurisdiction, but like you said, litigation is definitely
| possible.
| elviva404 wrote:
| There's actually a web app that does exactly what you are
| describing. It seamlessly converts playlists between apple
| music to spotify and vice versa. Check it out
| https://playlistor.io/ .
| troydavis wrote:
| Thank you! This is really close. It doesn't solve my personal
| need but it may work for others.
|
| 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.
| thomasfortes wrote:
| I built a script that did that a bunch of years ago, it was
| to share spotify playlists with friends that had deezer or
| listen to music on youtube, I got it to work with deezer
| and started the work to find the songs on youtube, but
| abandoned it because almost everyone in my group of friends
| started using spotify, now I can't find where I stored, it
| was simple enough that I didn't even bothered to put in
| version control...
| bariumbitmap wrote:
| Similar to combine.fm, though Songwhip supports more services and
| isn't open source. https://github.com/kudos/combine.fm
| lukeschlather wrote:
| It would be really nice of the Library of Congress had a simple
| API so this could just be a thin (even client-side) wrapper
| around that, and you could easily turn the Library of Congress'
| URI for the work into a link onto a platform where you could
| purchase/download/stream the work.
| mfkp wrote:
| I've used https://odesli.co/ in the past (formerly song.link) -
| seems like the same thing, useful service.
| fredley wrote:
| Would pay for this if you could customise the links on each
| platform rather than only have the robot suggestions.
|
| 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!
| blackjack48 wrote:
| What differentiates this from Linkfire or Amplify?
| meremortals wrote:
| Love this and use it constantly. There's a useful Alfred
| extension too
| anandchowdhary wrote:
| Looks great! I made a similar open-source project last year
| called Sharer.link:
| https://github.com/AnandChowdhary/sharer.link, which also
| supports podcasts, movies, and audiobooks. Here's an example link
| of the same song: https://sharer-link.netlify.app/song/beautiful-
| people-fea-14....
| anandchowdhary wrote:
| Quick sidenote: This was built as a frontend app, no backend,
| which directly talks to the iTunes API in the browser. As a
| hack, it uses DuckDuckGo's !ducky feature for links.
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