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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 Ntrails »

nonameiguess wrote: post #64
blfr wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

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.

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

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

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Post by nsbk »

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

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

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Post by shtopointo »

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

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

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Post by opheliate »

myself248 wrote: post #88
status200 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

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

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Post by 1-more »

myself248 wrote: post #87
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…

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…

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."

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

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Post by hsur8192 »

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

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

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Post by gernb »

blfr wrote: post #47
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…

> 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…

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.

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