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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 urbandw311er »

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 number of matches first); this would allow me to more accurately match my tastes to discover a potentially new bunch of other songs I might like.

If there is a way to match against more songs, apologies! The post title implies there is, but the site seems to suggest it's limited to one song.

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

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Post by NomadicDaggy »

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…

Thank you for the feedback!

It is currently limited to one song, but there is already an issue on github planning multiple song selection. Just haven't gotten around to it yet.

As for over-abundance of results, sorting by name length in ascending order should help at least somewhat, but the search approach is an open problem.

As an aside: on large screens there is also an option to choose a specific song by dragging it from the Spotify client.

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

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Post by NomadicDaggy »

joelennon wrote: post #6

Nice idea. I'd recommend adding some kind of visual indicator when it's in a loading state - at first I thought it wasn't working but it was just slow to respond (probably because it's close to the top of HN right now...)

Thanks for the feedback!

The loading indicator is also on the list, TBH was supposed to go up before ShowHN, but I forgot. And yeah, now the query execution wait time for my measly 2-core postgres instance is about 30 seconds :D.

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

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Post by NomadicDaggy »

fbn79 wrote: post #7

For that I regularly use this free service https://www.chosic.com/spotify-playlist-search-tool-by-song-...

This is alternate approach, that uses an advanced Google search under the hood. It works very approximately, given that it searches the song title in everything Google decides to index.
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