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Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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I’m in a dedicated music discord, about 70% of links are Bandcamp, 20% Spotify, 10% Tidal. BC percentage could be higher, but good enough, most of the time it’s only for those weird bands that don’t sell on BC anyway ;) That said, I do miss Songwhip. It was a website where you could search for a release, and then generate all links for it, including streaming services and bandcamp.

I miss Songwhip as well. We used to have a bot in our music sharing Discord channel that looks for links to any streaming platform and convert them to Songwhip links via the Songwhip API. The good thing about Tidal is that, like Songwhip, it provides you with a list of links to various streaming platforms when you're not logged in.

Wish it had been open sourced, it worked so well. Or even better, if Bandcamp offered an API, so sites likes SW wouldn’t need to (probably) scrape that information.

> The good thing about Tidal

Can’t confirm, it’s worse than spotify for me, as I get an unclosable modal that asks me to sign up or login.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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I know of a even more impressive website that will transfer playlists from Spotify (or 20 other platforms, including text files) to 20 other platforms or a text file. I will share the link, but don't hug it to death y'all. :) https://app.tunemymusic.com/transfer

Anyone know of a technical solution to retrieve a list of 'titles' for deleted videos from a youtube playlist? Have at least 10x Playlists full of removed/deleted music that has been inappropriately copyright striked, but I can't even reconstitute the playlists as I don't have the Title/Artist for the removed tracks.

I manually copy pasted the video urls into services that lookup details and check web archive

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Apple Music = few users?? From what I could tell when choosing AM over Spotify, the latter has a lot of playlists for discovery and I would never use my streaming service for discovery as it encourages the service to promote music it is paid to promote. Of course AM is annoying too because 3 out of 5 navigation icons along the bottom of the UI are for discovery. But AM has Siri integration, which works some of the ti…

Apple Music has been utterly awful on desktop for years, with virtually zero positive progress. I made this angry video [1] 4 years ago, and have tried using Apple Music multiple times since then, and it never failed to disappoint. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE8ZikfrpFU

The new "Apple Music (Preview)" app on Windows (exclusively 11 IIRC) absolutely destroys anything they had in the past. And anything they have on macOS right now. It is absolutely stellar, and yet another example of the weird "let's make out apps on opposing systems better than our native ones" trend.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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This is great. I don't have spotify but everyone i know has spotify.

I wish I could just share the spotify link to a WPA app using the Web Share API and have it share back the url for my preffered music streaming app.

I guess I can ask claude to do it for me and use the code here for the UI, but I can't find the license file

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

#247

This is a bit off-topic, but: am I just dim or could the README be a bit more informative? What it's for, who it's for, etc. (I'll give partial blame to me or github for the About section/link being there... it's offscreen by the start of the README, so I missed it) (I also... don't use spotify... so had less-than-average context to guess the purpose of this project with.)

Anecdotally speaking, Spotify has become a sort of cultural default for a bunch of people. If you're in a DM or a group chat, you may not hear "You should listen to X by Y" but rather "Check this out: https://open.spotify.com/blah " At my current workplace and a previous one, both had Slack channels for sharing music and they were 99% Spotify links. Partly because of genuine Spotify usage but even not using Spotify a…

Huh, ok. Thanks for explaining.

I just don’t listen to music, full stop. Never used Spotify in my life, or any other streaming music service. Was really confused about all of this.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

#248

This is a bit off-topic, but: am I just dim or could the README be a bit more informative? What it's for, who it's for, etc. (I'll give partial blame to me or github for the About section/link being there... it's offscreen by the start of the README, so I missed it) (I also... don't use spotify... so had less-than-average context to guess the purpose of this project with.)

The project description on the right hand sidebar says a lot more:

> Effortlessly convert Spotify links to your preferred streaming service

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Anecdotally speaking, Spotify has become a sort of cultural default for a bunch of people. If you're in a DM or a group chat, you may not hear "You should listen to X by Y" but rather "Check this out: https://open.spotify.com/blah " At my current workplace and a previous one, both had Slack channels for sharing music and they were 99% Spotify links. Partly because of genuine Spotify usage but even not using Spotify a…

Do the spotify links not just open the song in some kind of web app if you dont have spotify installed? I always thought giving a straight link to the thing was better for all. If they had Spotify it would open there and without ads if they had the subscription and if they had neither it would still open the web app and let them listen to it with ads and stuff.

> Do the spotify links not just open the song in some kind of web app if you dont have spotify installed?

The page won't even load if you don't have the DRM plug-in installed.

I don't think you can _listen_ to the song without an account anyway.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

#250

This is a bit off-topic, but: am I just dim or could the README be a bit more informative? What it's for, who it's for, etc. (I'll give partial blame to me or github for the About section/link being there... it's offscreen by the start of the README, so I missed it) (I also... don't use spotify... so had less-than-average context to guess the purpose of this project with.)

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