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

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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...

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.

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

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post #47

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…

> 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 favor…

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.

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

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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…

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.

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

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post #85

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.

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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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…

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.)

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

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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.

What data would be useful from finding someone's Spotify? I dont use it so I'm not sure what details can be compromised.

Because there's a good chance they use the same username on other services. If you didn't already know that, now you might.

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

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post #77

It's kind of mind boggling to me that Spotify doesn't offer this themselves. Seems like use case 101

There's a post in their official forums with 60+ pages from 2012, but they state that there's not enough demand...

Like literally everything in their forums. There's a reason I dropped them.
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