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Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform

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Re: Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform

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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.

Re: Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform

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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....

Re: Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform

#7

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... .

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.

Re: Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform

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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 surpris…

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.

Re: Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform

#10
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.
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