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Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by boraoztunc »

tuzemec wrote: post #48
fluxinflex wrote: post #34

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 pe…

Remember last.fm? If I remember correctly, it was able to show other profiles with similar music taste.

I still use last.fm, connected to my Spotify account. Before it was connected to the iTunes with their desktop app. I always loved their listening analysis and charts, matching with other people's taste.

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by boraoztunc »

shtopointo wrote: post #93

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…

You can generate new songs with Echoes app. Connect your Spotify account, you will explore top artists, top songs and recently played. Also New Discovery section will generate playlists in a specific genre, if you click Load New Tracks, it will generate new songs through your Spotify algorithm.

https://echoesapp.io

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by purplecats »

urbandw311er wrote: post #4

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 numbe…

brilliant idea. i already found a couple awesome playlists by repurposing google to be this tool

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22state+of+grace%22+%22I%27...

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by profstasiak »

fluxinflex wrote: post #34

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 pe…

if you think this is a good idea, just go to music shows for your favourite artists. A lot of people go to those solo. If you talk to someone you like, and you spend a music show together dancing and enjoying an artist you both really like you are going to have such a strong start of the relationship it's only going downhill from that momement [0]

[0] true story, multiple times

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by markussss »

I tried to search for a song I found to be quite cool, Rotoscoping by PTRD. I got two matches, one "Discover Weekly Archive" made by Skiley.net on behalf of NomadicDaggy (you, the creator of this post and service). The second one was a "On Repeat"-playlist! Here, I realized that it's possible to look at other people's "On Repeat"-playlists, even though they are styled by the Spotify app to look like it's your own.

It's kind of weird that I only found this song in your playlists, and not in one of my playlists which also contains this song. For example: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0IntLgAqI2EysEvqwiivXQ?si=...

Anyway, I'm checking out your "On Repeat" playlist, however it might be better if your personally generated playlists are excluded? I'm not sure.

Really cool service!

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by NomadicDaggy »

markussss wrote: post #126

I tried to search for a song I found to be quite cool, Rotoscoping by PTRD. I got two matches, one "Discover Weekly Archive" made by Skiley.net on behalf of NomadicDaggy (you, the creator of this post and service). The second one was a "On Repeat"-playlist! Here, I realized that it's possible to look at other people's "On Repeat"-playlists, even though they are styled by the Spotify app to look like it's your own. It…

Thanks for trying it out! The site only includes indexed playlists and tracks, which have to be updated semi-manually, so currently only 18k playlists can be found. I plan to increase this, of course, but not at a crazy rate, because I'm hosting this out of my own pocket.

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by NomadicDaggy »

shtopointo wrote: post #93

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…

Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into it!

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by NomadicDaggy »

odysseus wrote: post #113

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.

Thanks for trying it out! There currently are only 18k playlists indexed, so only those can be found. I've been planing a feature, where users can suggest playlist search terms by which I should extend the index.

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by e-clinton »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #44
e-clinton wrote: post #22

Apple Music already has this feature. Does Spotify not?

Could you point me to some detail on how to actually do this in AM?

If you search on Apple Music (and actually tap “search”, don’t use the autocomplete results), there will be a list of categories on top. Playlist is one of those categories. You need to type out song name and artist when you search, otherwise it will just search for playlists by that name.

Obviously this could be a lot better.

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