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       Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs
       they contain
        
       Author : NomadicDaggy
       Score  : 237 points
       Date   : 2022-10-10 11:30 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | e-clinton wrote:
       | Apple Music already has this feature. Does Spotify not?
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | Other people have made similar tools, but Spotify still hasn't
         | added any native playlist-search-by-tracks AFAIK.
        
         | wintermutestwin wrote:
         | Could you point me to some detail on how to actually do this in
         | AM?
        
       | theschwa wrote:
       | Thank you so much for this! I've always wanted this capability,
       | and I plan on making extensive use of it.
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | Awesome, glad you like it!
        
       | dailyplanet wrote:
       | Spotify already has a "Discovered On" section on the Artist page
       | which has playlists that include the artists.
        
       | ArcaneMoose wrote:
       | Spotify API is pretty cool. I created https://hotkeyplayer.com/
       | with it to quickly map keys to playlists and launch them with the
       | press of a button. Used for switching music during D&D sessions
        
       | ThreePinkApples wrote:
       | Lol, the first song I searched for game 0 results. (Searched for
       | "More With You").
       | 
       | Oh and a bug: If I first search for something and get a result,
       | then enter a new search and scroll down before this new search
       | has completed, it starts searching for page 2-7 of this new
       | search term. Even better if you've already triggered the search
       | for page 2-7 on that first term. If you then scroll down after
       | updating the search, it is now searching for page 8-11 of that
       | new search term :)
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | Thanks, I registered the issue on GitHub.
        
       | brumm wrote:
       | Amazing! Something I've been meaning to build myself and now I
       | don't have to. I'd like to echo the need for multiple song search
       | --my use case for this was good playlists in cafes where I want
       | to identify the playlist based on 1-3 shazam'd songs.
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | Thanks and noted! :)
        
       | brent_noorda wrote:
       | Love it. This is one of the primary features that RDIO had that I
       | miss in Spotify, because it allows for discovering songs, as in
       | "if someone likes this song enough to add it to a song list, I
       | wonder what else they like". I look forward to the indexing to
       | increase, because many of my favorites aren't in your index yet.
       | (And they what would it be like if you cooold enter two or more
       | song titles?)
        
       | nickstinemates wrote:
       | This is really nice. I especially like the feature that let's
       | your drag a song from a UI into the app. Very handy.
       | 
       | Vibin to a new playlist now.
        
       | hsur8192 wrote:
       | This is neat! I built a similar service that basically uses song
       | playlist co-occurrence to generate song recommendations for any
       | given Spotify track, and have found some good initial success for
       | more popular tracks / artists [1].
       | 
       | The bottleneck here is using the Spotify API to find relevant
       | playlists - as others have noted here, Spotify's API doesn't
       | provide a way to perform direct lookup of playlists containing a
       | given track, so the best approach I've found is to perform many
       | text-based searches for desired search terms (e.g. artist, song
       | name), and then do breadth-first-search on playlists created by
       | the same users from the initial result set, in order to find
       | other playlists that might have the artist or song you are
       | looking for.
       | 
       | [1] Available in very limited fashion at https://vybe.link; this
       | is a Spotify beta application so the full app only works for
       | whitelisted Spotify accounts
        
       | oedstero wrote:
       | I'd love to see a playlist of songs you don't have in any
       | playlist.
        
       | davidktr wrote:
       | What do I have to do after entering a song? Pressing Enter does
       | nothing (Firefox, Safari, MacOS).
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | As other people have noted, the site is missing a loading
         | indicator and currently, very many people are trying to access
         | it, so you are doing everything correctly, just currently
         | requests take upwards of 30 seconds to process.
        
           | davidktr wrote:
           | thanks
        
         | krzyk wrote:
         | Thanks, I was wondering what I'm doing incorrectly (Firefox,
         | Linux).
        
       | oliv__ wrote:
       | It's kind of mind boggling to me that Spotify doesn't offer this
       | themselves. Seems like use case 101
        
         | chimen wrote:
         | You have spotify radio which is very similar.
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | There's a post in their official forums with 60+ pages from
         | 2012, but they state that there's not enough demand...
        
           | myself248 wrote:
           | Like literally everything in their forums. There's a reason I
           | dropped them.
        
       | shtopointo wrote:
       | This feedback is coming from someone that wants to discover new /
       | unknown bands in specific genres. I have a playlist of new /
       | unknown bands I've discovered over the years, but searching with
       | your tool didn't give back anything.
       | 
       | The playlist in case you want to use it for testing later:
       | https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5DcbwcCkBde68RgsxO2Sn2
       | 
       | Ideas for improvement:
       | 
       | * autocomplete
       | 
       | * autocomplete with song, artist and album image
       | 
       | * allow for search by track & artist name
       | 
       | * match up one of my playlists with a playlist you have in your
       | DB
        
       | megablast wrote:
       | Got excited. Saw it was Spotify. No longer excited.
        
       | lagrange77 wrote:
       | Cool!
       | 
       | I Would love something like this for Youtube.
        
       | mellowhype wrote:
       | it doesn't work for me. that, or I feed it obscure songs.
        
       | xiavan405 wrote:
       | Spotify sorely needs this feature. Great work!
        
       | jonas-w wrote:
       | I think searching by the spotify song id / song link, would be
       | easier in my opinion, as I couldn't really find what i was
       | looking for.
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | That functionality already exists, but is prompted for only on
         | large screens, because I didn't think anybody would use it on
         | mobile. And thanks for the feedback!
        
           | jonas-w wrote:
           | Thanks, checked it out on my laptop. Great stuff!
        
       | teddyh wrote:
       | _Spotify_ playlists.
        
       | fluxinflex wrote:
       | I once built a site that used Spotify playlist data directly. The
       | intention was that you could take one of your own playlist and
       | find playlists that have the greatest overlaps. The intention was
       | to find people with a similiar musical taste to yourself.
       | 
       | Interestingly I found a lot of new music that way and also found
       | other music directions that suddenly interested me.
       | 
       | Thinking this a little further, it provides the perfekt basis for
       | a dating application. Music is a very personally representation
       | of oneself and if you find someone who has the same muscial
       | taste, you already have a common basis for communication.
       | 
       | Obviously this never made it past developer status since Spotify
       | does not like third party apps storing their data (i.e. playlists
       | of other people). You can use the data but not store it or
       | analyse it.
       | 
       | It made me think that Spotify should build a dating app since
       | they would have no interest in keeping you in their dating app as
       | thats not their main business, unlike other dating platforms that
       | have little interest in losing their customers.
        
         | WinstonBites wrote:
         | stats.fm app has a matching service using spotify stats that
         | sound similar to what you are describing
        
         | blfr wrote:
         | > Thinking this a little further, it provides the perfekt basis
         | for a dating application. Music is a very personally
         | representation of oneself and if you find someone who has the
         | same muscial taste, you already have a common basis for
         | communication.
         | 
         | I don't think a shared taste in music is that important, or at
         | all, in a relationship but this is the premise of aptly named
         | Tastebuds[1], a dating app based around favorite music. You can
         | import your listening data from Last.fm and Spotify.
         | 
         | [1] https://tastebuds.fm/
        
           | fluxinflex wrote:
           | True, there are definitely people who don't place any
           | importance on music but for those that do, musical taste can
           | be very important in a relationship.
           | 
           | So, no music taste isn't ultimate be-all-and-end-all factor
           | but for some it can be very important!
           | 
           | Tastebuds seems only to have a facebook login - hm, not
           | everyone uses FB! Strange that they don't have a Spotify
           | login, probably the same issues that other apps face when
           | they start to store Spotify data.
        
             | blfr wrote:
             | You can register by email and then import your info from
             | Spotify.
        
           | 1123581321 wrote:
           | In isolation, perhaps not, but musical taste plus another
           | characteristic can say a lot about someone. (I might be
           | biased because my future wife caught my attention when I
           | overheard her say she liked a certain band in a group setting
           | where most people hadn't heard of it.)
           | 
           | Spotify doesn't have its claws in real-life gatherings yet,
           | but they might have something with their music (personality)
           | and podcasts (interests, affiliations) data.
        
             | heavytea21475 wrote:
             | What does someone's music say about their personality?
        
               | antihero wrote:
               | If someone likes a lot of niche stuff and more complex,
               | less accessible music, they are likely to take passion
               | for music more seriously as a hobby than somoene who just
               | listens to chart stuff (not that there's anything wrong
               | with that per-say, but I feel being that level of passive
               | would lead to incompatibility).
               | 
               | Certain genres and scenes are also linked to demographics
               | and lifestyles (e.g. hyperpop being very queer leaning,
               | chiptunes being nerdy, punk being political, bassline and
               | techno being linked to the underground rave scene,
               | etc...)
               | 
               | Also if one of your favourite things is going to gigs and
               | festivals, producing music, or following it, having
               | crossover in taste means being able to share a passion.
               | 
               | A large part of my relationship with my partner is
               | listening to music, either at home on the hi-fi, or at
               | events. If we didn't have a decent amount of crossover,
               | this wouldn't really work.
               | 
               | Having _exactly the same_ taste is probably not so great
               | as I think the differences and gaps are a great space to
               | grow and discover.
        
               | nope96 wrote:
               | Openness to new things? Variety is the spice of life, how
               | spicy are they?
        
           | nonameiguess wrote:
           | You can base a relationship on plenty of other things, but
           | shared interest in _something_ is pretty important. Music can
           | be a big one for a lot of people. My wife and I met at a
           | KMFDM show, and traveling to music festivals is still the
           | biggest social thing we have going on at all. Doing that
           | without her would be a lot less gratifying than doing it with
           | her.
        
             | Ntrails wrote:
             | I feel like there is a difference between sharing a love of
             | music and sharing a love of the _same_ music. I believe I
             | would struggle with someone who loved no music and /or with
             | whom there was zero overlap. But I'd not expect to love the
             | same things
        
           | gernb wrote:
           | Somewhat agreed. Basically I found most people learn to like
           | the music of their latest romantic partner.
           | 
           | I think partly it's just familiarity. There are plenty of
           | "classics" I didn't really like when they came out but now
           | they bring a feeling of nostalgia so even though they weren't
           | "me" back then, for some reason they now feel like part of
           | me, my history, my experience.
        
         | tuzemec wrote:
         | Remember last.fm? If I remember correctly, it was able to show
         | other profiles with similar music taste.
        
           | Inversechi wrote:
           | It still does - in the Neighbours view.
        
         | mbrameld wrote:
         | Isn't that how Spotify originally did their discover playlists?
         | Seems like I remember they took the songs you listened to most
         | frequently, found playlists other users have made containing
         | that song, then looked for songs you haven't listened to on the
         | platform yet that frequently appeared in playlists with the
         | songs you play frequently.
        
         | jedberg wrote:
         | We had the same idea about reddit years ago. Letting people opt
         | into "dating" and then sending them matches of people who
         | upvote similar articles. We were even building the recommender
         | on the same technology. Not sure why we didn't do it, I guess
         | we just didn't have the time.
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | Interesting idea!
         | 
         | Slightly off-topic, but originally I had planned to organically
         | grow the playlist count by allowing users to login with their
         | Spotify account and reading their playlists. I even made a
         | prototype...but turns out Spotify only allows working with user
         | data once you have your API quota extended, which seemed like
         | quite the undertaking.
        
           | fluxinflex wrote:
           | Yer their quote system is a bit painful. I built a bunch of
           | background jobs that continually retrieved data ... max'ed
           | out the quote limit constantly.
           | 
           | I even went as far as setting a second developer account to
           | have a larger limit ;)
           | 
           | I also did a writeup[1] on lessons learnt in case someone is
           | interested in rinsing and repeating on this idea.
           | 
           | [1]=https://gregorius.rippenstein.art/works/hamoni
        
             | NomadicDaggy wrote:
             | I'll check out the write-up, thanks. As for user-data, the
             | request count limit is not even the limiting factor. If you
             | want to request data with a users token, you can't at all,
             | without getting a quota extension (apart from 25 pre-
             | registered developer users).
        
         | Kkoala wrote:
         | https://tunemeet.com/ has kind of similar idea, it matches you
         | to other people who are listening to the same song at the
         | moment. Or to people who have some of the top 5 songs as you
        
         | mariusor wrote:
         | Back in the day we used last.fm (nee audioscrobbler.com) for
         | this. :)
         | 
         | I have a largish group of friends that I met through similar
         | tastes in music and being "neighbours" on last.fm.
        
       | pks016 wrote:
       | Found some playlists for a few songs. But doesn't work for
       | others. Says Spotify track link should look like
       | 'https://open.spotify.com/track/22numbersOrLetters'
        
       | NomadicDaggy wrote:
       | It seems that within 10ish minutes the site has already been
       | hugged to near-death. Thank You :D
        
       | starkd wrote:
       | Good start, but I'm not sure how song title can extract
       | meaningful similar songs. I put in "Big Time" (song by Peter
       | Gabriel) and it came back with a list of songs from a variety of
       | genres. From smooth jazz selections to songs by Bjork. I think
       | you really need a machine learning approach that categorizes
       | songs by their signal content into categories.
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | Thanks for the feedback! You are supposed to click on a song to
         | see playlists it contains. Sorry for the unclear UI.
        
           | starkd wrote:
           | ahh I see. Yeah that makes more sense.
        
       | urbandw311er wrote:
       | Nice start - I think there is ultimately some value in this
       | approach, but currently seems quite limited in its functionality,
       | for example I can only choose one song? This results in a very
       | large set of results to wade through, many of which will not be
       | helpful or relevant.
       | 
       | Personally I'd get far more value if I could chuck in 3-4
       | favourite songs and see which playlists contains all of them (or
       | order by greatest number of matches first); this would allow me
       | to more accurately match my tastes to discover a potentially new
       | bunch of other songs I might like.
       | 
       | If there is a way to match against more songs, apologies! The
       | post title implies there is, but the site seems to suggest it's
       | limited to one song.
        
         | myself248 wrote:
         | Ditto, this is what I thought it was -- the title says "by
         | songS they contain", not "by a song they contain".
         | 
         | I really want to see if anyone else has Left Hand Free and Pop
         | Muzik on a playlist together, and if they've found any _other_
         | songs that contain eeny-meeny-miney-moe in the lyrics and made
         | a playlist of them like I have...
         | 
         | (Here's another oddball one, if you're a puzzle type. Bring The
         | Magic - Steve Wynn. So It Goes - Nick Lowe. Roadrunner Once -
         | Jonathan Richman. Heavy Metal - Sammy Hagar.)
        
           | 1-more wrote:
           | I have extremely niche playlists like this: male and female
           | presenting singers shouting the same lyrics at the same time,
           | songs with cheerleaders in the background, songs by two or
           | more NYC area rappers about high seas piracy. For your list
           | consider adding "Hot" by Liili in which the lyrics code
           | switch Russian and English but do contain "eeny-meeny-money."
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | Thank you for the feedback!
         | 
         | It is currently limited to one song, but there is already an
         | issue on github planning multiple song selection. Just haven't
         | gotten around to it yet.
         | 
         | As for over-abundance of results, sorting by name length in
         | ascending order should help at least somewhat, but the search
         | approach is an open problem.
         | 
         | As an aside: on large screens there is also an option to choose
         | a specific song by dragging it from the Spotify client.
        
       | hammock wrote:
       | How does this work on mobile? There's no submit form button
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | Thanks for the feedback, I'll add a button. For me it works
         | just by pressing "enter" on the mobile keyboard, but admittedly
         | I didn't test it very thoroughly.
        
           | hammock wrote:
           | Maybe I tested it during hug of death. Return "worked" (I
           | could press it) but there was no indication given even by the
           | browser progress bar that anything was happening as a result
        
       | nsbk wrote:
       | This is very convenient, but it didn't work well for me on the
       | first attempt. The song I used is called "Love", from Colour
       | Haze.
       | 
       | > Found 32646 tracks.
       | 
       | Yikes. Adding the artist to the search yields 0 results, and
       | since it only loads a number of results until you scroll to the
       | bottom of the page, I could not find the track I wanted.
       | 
       | It would be great to have the option to specify the author
       | somehow
        
       | odysseus wrote:
       | Thanks for this! I tried 3 songs and they came back not found.
       | But on the 4th, I got a good hit! (Mix of Progressive, Deep House
       | & Trance, designed for High Intensity Focus & Created for my
       | Medical School Studying by Austin Nguyen)
       | 
       | https://playlists.dags.dev/tracks/7xdkou0YaNLW9hWXU9MRcR/pla...
       | 
       | Tried a bunch more without success. Granted, I like a lot of
       | obscure electronica.
        
       | aantix wrote:
       | I've maintained a playlist for years of my favorite sad songs.
       | 
       | Mostly acoustic and piano based, lesser-known songs. Please add
       | it to your index.
       | 
       | https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhMrEC5L8T4FmbQP78B5gzEJh...
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | Currently the site only works with Spotify tracks and
         | playlists. If you care to create a public spotify playlist,
         | I'll gladly add it in.
        
       | illwrks wrote:
       | This is great, I popped in a song title from a band I like and
       | found a playlist with some tracks that sound really good!
        
       | santiagobasulto wrote:
       | This is very helpful! I've searched for this in the past. There's
       | sometimes one song I like and I'd like to find more like that.
       | 
       | Something useful I found is the "Go to song radio" in Spotify,
       | that creates kind of a "dynamic" playlist with similar songs.
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | Thank you very much!
         | 
         | I also use the Spotify radios a lot, but they are heavily
         | curated - they contain a lot of songs that you already have in
         | a playlist or have liked. So they are useful for listening, but
         | slightly less for strictly music discovery.
        
           | its_bbq wrote:
           | I use radios in a hybrid approach. I'll make a radio, find a
           | song I like, and then go play the album through and let
           | Spotify start recommending, and repeat. Tends to make enough
           | variety to get me to all sorts of interesting places
        
       | mackorone wrote:
       | Cool project!
       | 
       | I maintain an archive of Spotify playlists, scraped daily via
       | GitHub Actions: https://github.com/mackorone/spotify-playlist-
       | archive.
       | 
       | If you're willing to share, I'd love to hear about your
       | experience with the Spotify API. What endpoints do you use? How
       | often do you call them? How do you handle rate limiting? Has
       | Spotify reached out regarding storing playlist data (being in
       | violation of their terms of service)? Any other lessons or
       | advice?
       | 
       | Additionally, I wonder if there's any opportunity for
       | collaboration here. Perhaps you can use the archive to fill out
       | your dataset? Maybe it can act as a cache for your system's
       | scraping needs? Perhaps our Web UIs could link to each other or
       | be combined somehow (https://spotifyplaylistarchive.com/)?
       | 
       | > Currently we keep track of 18378 Spotify playlists
       | 
       | How did you find all of these playlists? Querying Spotify for
       | "Spotify"-owned playlists gives me less than 5000 results. I'd
       | love to add more playlists to my archive but I don't have good
       | discovery mechanisms, especially for non-Spotify-owned playlists.
        
       | sva_ wrote:
       | I tried it with a few tracks from a very popular playlist ('Yoga
       | Electronica').
       | 
       | First track couldn't be found. Second track could be found, but
       | it couldn't find the aforementioned playlist (with almost 200k
       | likes). Third song also can't seem to be found.
       | 
       | So I'm thinking that the indexing is not complete. Unless I
       | misunderstand something.
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | Thanks for the feedback!
         | 
         | Currently the database contains only ~18k playlists and ~1.4M
         | tracks. So only the relationships between them are used in the
         | app.
         | 
         | Edit: theres even a counter at the top of the page, but it
         | takes a while to show up, because of the HN effect.
        
       | dawnerd wrote:
       | When on dark mode the results are really card to read fyi.
       | 
       | Love this concept, way quicker than using the "found on" in the
       | Spotify app - which doesn't even always work that well.
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into it.
        
       | joelennon wrote:
       | Nice idea. I'd recommend adding some kind of visual indicator
       | when it's in a loading state - at first I thought it wasn't
       | working but it was just slow to respond (probably because it's
       | close to the top of HN right now...)
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | Thanks for the feedback!
         | 
         | The loading indicator is also on the list, TBH was supposed to
         | go up before ShowHN, but I forgot. And yeah, now the query
         | execution wait time for my measly 2-core postgres instance is
         | about 30 seconds :D.
        
       | parski wrote:
       | I tried a song called "Chase Init_" by dragging and dropping but
       | it doesn't work. A Wingdings-song isn't a problem though for some
       | reason.
        
       | fbn79 wrote:
       | For that I regularly use this free service
       | https://www.chosic.com/spotify-playlist-search-tool-by-song-...
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | This is alternate approach, that uses an advanced Google search
         | under the hood. It works very approximately, given that it
         | searches the song title in everything Google decides to index.
        
           | fbn79 wrote:
           | Thank you, was not aware of how it works
        
             | NomadicDaggy wrote:
             | I'm not a 100% on how it works myself, just a stong hunch
             | based on the site speed and results.
        
       | bugmen0t wrote:
       | Nice idea. Out of curiosity, which song inspired you to build
       | this site?
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | To be honest I can't remember anymore, it was a few years back
         | that I initially got the idea for it. Might have been Alone by
         | The Upbeats.
        
       | waingake wrote:
       | I made a site to record and vote on playlists sorted by last
       | updated as well as popularity https://playlists.mohiohio.com
        
       | mcv wrote:
       | Nice timing. I need a good danceable rock playlist by the end of
       | the week. I could create my own, or I could use some danceable
       | rock songs to find an existing playlist.
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | Great to hear! Just not that the site is very unresponsive
         | right now, thanks to all the HN love. So probably a good idea
         | to bookmark it and come back later.
        
       | icosian wrote:
       | I have wished for something like this, so I tried it out, using
       | _Beauty Beats_, by Beats Antique. I got one of your own playlists
       | - what are the odds?!
       | 
       | Works great, thank you!
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | Awesome, thanks!
        
       | fny wrote:
       | Can someone please build an inverse recommendation system? These
       | recommender systems are too good at giving me things similar to
       | what I've already heard.
        
       | helsinkiandrew wrote:
       | I need something that can find the song from my out of tune, only
       | partially remembered humming
        
         | dewey wrote:
         | SoundHound used to do that, looks like it can still be used
         | through: https://www.midomi.com
        
           | soco wrote:
           | Why "used to"? The SoundHound (Android) app is still
           | around...
        
             | dewey wrote:
             | I just briefly looked at their website and saw the B2B
             | pivot. Wasn't sure if the app is still around, but upon
             | closer inspection it seems like it is.
        
         | mtwshngtn wrote:
         | Melodic contours might help you[0]--you only need to remember
         | if the tune goes up or down.
         | 
         | [0]: https://www.musipedia.org/melodic_contour.html
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | https://www.reddit.com/r/NameThatSong/ might be able to help
         | with that
        
       | LanceH wrote:
       | I always thought something like this for movies that contain a
       | favorite song might reveal a hidden gem or two.
        
       | hahamrfunnyguy wrote:
       | Cool concept. The site seems to be succumbing to the HN effect.
       | There should be some kind of loading indicator on the first
       | search, it didn't seem to be doing anything but when I went to
       | close out the page there were results. I typed "One Beer" into
       | search and a lot of duplicate entries came up.
        
         | NomadicDaggy wrote:
         | Thanks for the feedback! The loading indicator is an overlook
         | on my side and you are not the only one that noticed :D. I seem
         | to have been very naive about how HN might affect the site.
        
       | opheliate wrote:
       | This kind of thing has always seemed quite interesting (and
       | worrying!) to me from an OSINT perspective. It seems like if you
       | just know a couple of some anonymous person's favourite songs
       | from various genres, you could identify possible Spotify accounts
       | they may also own. As far as I can tell, it's basically
       | impossible to discuss anything remotely personal online without
       | jeopardizing pseudonymity.
        
         | bqmjjx0kac wrote:
         | It's kind of horrifying to learn that it only takes 33 bits of
         | information to uniquely identify any living human on the
         | planet. log2(8e9) ~= 32.9.
        
           | OJFord wrote:
           | If it helps (with the horror I mean), that's just a sort of
           | lower bound of course - if you could choose your bits
           | carefully and ideally (and I suppose they'd probably be
           | pretty weird (to a human) and overlapping/multi-dimensional,
           | like 'lives in Europe or Antarctica' or 'uses macOS and is
           | female') which of course you couldn't.
           | 
           | i.e. in practice, for practical metrics, it probably takes a
           | lot (I'm not going to guess how many) more.
        
         | nmilo wrote:
         | Most people that know my taste in music already have my spotify
         | because they're my friends and I gave it to them. As for
         | worrying about pseudonymity, spotify lets you hide listening
         | activity and make all your playlists private.
        
         | status200 wrote:
         | What data would be useful from finding someone's Spotify? I
         | dont use it so I'm not sure what details can be compromised.
        
           | myself248 wrote:
           | Because there's a good chance they use the same username on
           | other services. If you didn't already know that, now you
           | might.
        
             | opheliate wrote:
             | Yep, plus I know a lot of my friends using Spotify login
             | using Facebook, which displays their full name & profile
             | photo. Also followers/following lists are public, so if you
             | can find a close contact of theirs who is less serious
             | about opsec, you're that much closer to their actual
             | identity. This is only really relevant to the truly
             | paranoid who try to use a different identity for every
             | service.
        
       | stall84 wrote:
       | Spotify has had a pretty awesome public api for a while
        
         | nsteel wrote:
         | It looks great on paper but the quotas and lack of support make
         | it painful to use outside of toys. The dev forums are full of
         | these complaints, and before that the github repos were too. We
         | are long overdue being moved to another platform so they can
         | more legitimately ignore the same old support issues and
         | requests they don't intend to solve. Websockets is a good
         | example, libspotify successor another. Frustrating.
        
       | lemax wrote:
       | I use 1001 tracklists for this - you can search by track and it
       | will surface DJ sets where the song was played.
       | 
       | https://www.1001tracklists.com/
        
       | canadiantim wrote:
       | Thanks god, been waiting for this concept to be implemented in a
       | better way
        
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