Clean and works well, nicely done! Are you able to pull in embeds from the various platforms as well? You may also want to consider adding analytics to this and charging for it, something along the lines of smarturl.it that many artists seem to use (example: Alicia Keys https://smarturl.it/xALICIAx)
Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform
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#32Right before checking HN, I'd spent a few hours thinking about how to approach this very problem!
Where are you fetching or how are you determining the track IDs for each service? Is it a simple metadata search through each API, are you using some of the reference data from Musicbrainz, or is there another good source of these relationships available?
The Echo Nest used to have a great open-access API for cross-referencing track IDs called Rosetta Stone. Unfortunately, Spotify discontinued it a few years after acquiring The Echo Nest.
While I understand why the streaming platforms might think it's in their interests to make cross-service track relationships difficult to determine, I'm disappointed that Spotify shut down a useful service that really helped music lovers. From some brief searching earlier today, it looks like no one has taken up the mantle yet.
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#33This reminds me of bop.fm (YC S14, I think) in a way.
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#34Hey I'm Wilson, I designed and built Songwhip (solo) and continue to work on it fulltime. Happy to answer any questions :)
Hi Wilson, this is neat. Thanks for the work. This is a way nicer page than the one Distrokid generates for sharing releases!
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#35Some feedback - the search doesn't work very well.
If I type 'Gigi Masin Tears of a clown' into the search, I get no results. If I type 'Gigi Masin', then the track appears near the top of the search results.
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#37Hey I'm Wilson, I designed and built Songwhip (solo) and continue to work on it fulltime. Happy to answer any questions :)
I love the use of human-readable URL's. The ability to cut the song title out and go to the Artist page (for example) is really neat. Nice work Wilson - I'll be using it!
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#38Similar to combine.fm, though Songwhip supports more services and isn't open source. https://github.com/kudos/combine.fm
That's mine, thanks for the mention.
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#39I'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…
There's a good iOS app that converts playlists, and will help you resolve situations where an exact match isn't automatically found.
Re: Songwhip – Share a music link to every platform
#40Hey I'm Wilson, I designed and built Songwhip (solo) and continue to work on it fulltime. Happy to answer any questions :)
Very cool, well done. Two questions: 1. Do you plan to monetize it to aid in the sustainability of this product? 2. Any thoughts on implementing this functionality for playlists?
1. Yes I'm planning on releasing Songwhip Pro (https://songwhip.com/pro) which will be a customizable version of the free product targeted at artists, labels and marketers. It'll allow an artist name to be 'claimed' unlocking write access and pro-only features.
2. I don't have the bandwidth to take on playlist functionality at this time. I'm trying to focus the offering and really nail the original problem before taking on new challenges. I've seen competitors try to spread themselves too thin and end up not doing anything exceptionally.
Hope that makes sense :)