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I Don't Have Spotify

786 points by sjdonado 2y ago

dsalaj 2y ago
This failed completely after trying to search for songs that don't have a unique name. This seemingly just does a basic string search on other streaming platforms. Sad...
xyst 2y ago
Switch out alternative streaming services with torrent links or alternatives ways to listen to the content. And you would actually have something here.
cglong 2y ago
Thank you for the submission! Should this be a Show HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
frei 2y ago
The first song I tried mapped incorrectly. Even though there was a green verified checkmark! > https://open.spotify.com/track/1Pfc1Qpj0s9vQumI0JvpBp https://open.spotify.com/track/1Pfc1Qpj0s9vQumI0JvpBp mapped to > https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ogoeWS6CDbI https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ogoeWS6CDbI but it should have mapped to > https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dfgKYWrRfoc https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dfgKYWrRfoc
jonesn11 2y ago
Spotify literally plays the same songs over and over...and creates features no one wants
fuzzfactor 2y ago
Could that be restated as "Spotify doesn't have me"?
tommygpt 2y ago
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sjdonado 2y ago
It has a Raycast extension too https://www.raycast.com/sjdonado/idonthavespotify https://www.raycast.com/sjdonado/idonthavespotify
Kudos 2y ago
I built something very similar the last time I got laid off and needed something to do https://github.com/kudos/combine.fm https://github.com/kudos/combine.fm
excalibur 2y ago
Not seeing Pandora, apparently 46 million people still use that as of 2023
- alpinisme 2y ago
  46 million active users or 46 million accounts created?
  - zxexz 2y ago
    I’d believe either, though the latter feels tiny. Pandora is still better than any of the others listed for discovering new music, IMO. Spotify always seems too conservative with its suggestions, making it worse for discovering new music. Subjective, of course.
    - dafelst 2y ago
      I agree, I feel like Pandora recommendations are far better than Spotify ones, at least for me. Spotify keeps me in my bubble, Pandora is constantly expanding it.
    - ProfessorLayton 2y ago
      I don't think it's subjective. Royalties aren't paid equally, and considering Spotify is partly owned by the record labels themselves, it makes sense to steer listeners.
    - chiefalchemist 2y ago
      I haven't tried Pandora lately but Spotify is horrible for suggestions. My goto remains BBC 6 Radio Music.
    - dankwizard 2y ago
      It is tiny - It's US only.
    - jollyllama 2y ago
      Pandora is also way more trainable. You can train that recommender with your thumbs up/down, and it's been like that for 15 years.
askonomm 2y ago
I'd love to actually buy music and store it myself, as I've started noticing more and more that some of the songs I have on Spotify have started to disappear, but I find it very difficult to buy modern music anymore. Most gets released as singles, and as far as I know, to only streaming platforms. Is there a way to still buy the same kind of music that is on streaming platforms, and actually get the audio files?
- toastercat 2y ago
  The most sustainable way to "buy" music IMO, is to pirate it, and then buy merch from the artist as support. Or just buy off Bandcamp if its an option.
  - orblivion 2y ago
    I Don't Have Spotify should add Bandcamp support. Bandcamp is great for just playing the music too.
    - Syonyk 2y ago
      It's not. Artists will often enough remove old albums so you can no longer play them. Buy it, download as FLAC, put in your preferred local infrastructure to play. Plex/Plexamp works well, as does local file storage and a good command line music client if you're less GUI-friendly or don't have the resources for running them.
      - meeb 2y ago
        Downloading large collections can be a pain though, one at a time and in zips. I made this to help though https://github.com/meeb/bandcampsync https://github.com/meeb/bandcampsync Bandcamp is the only place to sensibly buy music you can own these days which is pretty depressing.
        prmoustache 2y ago
        what about online music shops like bleep.com and 7digital?
mfkp 2y ago
A similar service that I use frequently to generate song.link URLs for sharing: https://odesli.co/ https://odesli.co/
- volteret4 2y ago
  Thanks for this, I used an automated script to create a post with links on my gh . This looks great, ty
toomuchtodo 2y ago
Is there a DOI equivalent for identifying music tracks?
- welpo 2y ago
  Yes, the International Standard Recording Code (ISRC): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Recording_Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Recordi... I don't know how to look up music with a known ISRC, though.
- rajbot 2y ago
  https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Identifier https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Identifier > One of MusicBrainz' aims is to be the universal lingua franca for music by providing a reliable and unambiguous form of music identification; this music identification is performed through the use of MusicBrainz Identifiers (MBIDs).
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  - toomuchtodo 2y ago
    A damn shame they want $5k for mbid.org
    - volteret4 2y ago
      Could you tell me who? I love MBID but didnt read about that. Thanks in advance
      - toomuchtodo 2y ago
        Whomever has listed it at GoDaddy when you land on the domain in a browser. https://www.godaddy.com/forsale/mbid.org https://www.godaddy.com/forsale/mbid.org
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bean-weevil 2y ago
It would be fantastic if this site were a pwa that supported the chrome api [1] that lets you share directly to it on android. I would make a pr but my company owns all my ip and getting an exception takes months :( 1: https://chodounsky.com/2019/03/24/progressive-web-application-as-a-share-option-in-android/ https://chodounsky.com/2019/03/24/progressive-web-applicatio...
- gkoberger 2y ago
  I know it's a tough job market, but that's unacceptable! They won't change, but you shouldn't put up with that.
  - bean-weevil 2y ago
    I'm not done trying to convince them. They're small enough that I think I have a legitimate chance.
- recursive 2y ago
  WTF I've never heard of this. I hope you're getting compensated well.
  - bean-weevil 2y ago
    Unfortunately it's not uncommon here.
- itishappy 2y ago
  ... don't do it at work? If your company owns your free time as well, you've fucked up and should talk to HR.
  - bean-weevil 2y ago
    You're correct, I signed a contract that says they own my free time. I didn't exactly want to, and I firmly believe it's wrong. Nevertheless, it's easy to say I fucked up when you don't know my exact situation. This is my first job and there are a lot of other benefits that made it the best option for me personally, even when there were alternatives that had no such clause.
mfkp 2y ago
Doesn't appear to work for Youtube Music links... "Something went wrong, please try again later"
porridgeraisin 2y ago
When I used to maintain a discord music bot, it used to stream from YouTube. For Spotify urls to work though, I had to get YouTube search to work reliably. One trick which I found worked well was including the Spotify URL in the YouTube search along with the song name, artist name, etc. This helped quite a bit with picking out the "official" youtube video, since the official one often includes Spotify links in the video description, which YouTube search also matches against.
leddt 2y ago
I made a very simple chrome extension that automatically redirects you to your preferred music service when visiting another service. In my case I have it set to YouTube Music, so if I click a Spotify (or other) link in Slack, I'll be redirected to YouTube Music. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/music-link/gnhphofplilnmjlbakmplapbhbcifdip https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/music-link/gnhphofp...
- mettamage 2y ago
  This type of stuff is what make chrome extension development fun
- vivzkestrel 2y ago
  sounds amazing, how did you map the urls manually?
  - lelandfe 2y ago
    https://github.com/leddt/music-link/blob/8faa5ceb0caa620499ed8bf11d7da770fb426115/src/background.js#L40 https://github.com/leddt/music-link/blob/8faa5ceb0caa620499e... I guess this is a free service? E.g https://api.song.link/v1-alpha.1/links?url=https://open.spotify.com/track/3Lzvh7TqjpAqybfejzX0hR https://api.song.link/v1-alpha.1/links?url=https://open.spot...
    - leddt 2y ago
      Exactly! Their docs are here: https://linktree.notion.site/API-d0ebe08a5e304a55928405eb682f6741 https://linktree.notion.site/API-d0ebe08a5e304a55928405eb682... It has a 10 request per minute rate limit, but no api key needed, so each user runs their own queries.
- paranoidrobot 2y ago
  Do you have a Firefox version of this?
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tommygpt 2y ago
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nipperkinfeet 2y ago
For me, it didn't work. The artists and tracks on almost all of the tracks I pasted were incorrect. I suppose it would only be compatible with mainstream music.
_DeadFred_ 2y ago
Now that the app algorithms are horrible can we all go back to something like last.fm so I can discover new music?
- sph 2y ago
  The real reason why last.fm lost to Spotify: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR8az1UMOiQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR8az1UMOiQ
- conradfr 2y ago
  You need to use webradios, there's lot of them. But you can't skip to the next tune so you need to skip to the next webradio instead ;)
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- adrianmsmith 2y ago
  last.fm is still there and you can still use it to discover new music!
  - _DeadFred_ 2y ago
    As soon as they add Youtube music I'm in. I no longer give my money to Spotify.
- cxr 2y ago
  Let's go back to the word "algorithm" being used for what it actually means, instead of the opposite—like the way it's used here and in every article about social media written in the last 7 years.
vzaliva 2y ago
I have to deal with spotify links sent to me often and this is great. The better link would be to the actual service page, not github repo: https://idonthavespotify.donado.co/ https://idonthavespotify.donado.co/ It would be fantastic to have this as an extension for us, Firefox users. I hope someone makes one someday.
- JadeNB 2y ago
  > It would be fantastic to have this as an extension for us, Firefox users. I hope someone makes one someday. If there's some easy way to figure out where that id parameter in the results page comes from (I assume some simple hash of the link), then you could probably even just make it a bookmarklet.
- ThrowawayTestr 2y ago
  Why do you get Spotify links sent to you often?
  - johnisgood 2y ago
    Probably because his friends use it.
    - ThrowawayTestr 2y ago
      I know what services my friends use and make sure to send them the appropriate link whenever I suggest music
      - johnisgood 2y ago
        I do, too, but not everyone does that, and many people, say, on Discord, just link to Spotify.
Touche 2y ago
I'm still mad that they killed Rdio because Spotify was "free". Will never use it.
- astrostl 2y ago
  Best user interface for music ever. It was nearly perfect IMO. Still mad too!
grahamj 2y ago
This is great, thanks! I left Spotify when they signed Rogan.
- imperialdrive 2y ago
  I don't follow. Is he anti music or something? Afaik he's on Apple, Amazon, and Youtube as well. Do you not use anything related to him? I'm honestly curious for some reason.
  - rzzzt 2y ago
    His podcast was exclusively on Spotify for a while, for a measurable amount of money (the article is from February when that portion of the deal ended): https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/joe-rogan-renews-spotify-deal-not-exclusive-1235895424/ https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/joe-rogan-renews-spoti...
  - CalRobert 2y ago
    Personally, I don't like the idea of my money supporting people who oppose vaccination, among other things.
    - grahamj 2y ago
      Exactly
  - bigstrat2003 2y ago
    Some people are intolerant and think that "they allow someone who I disagree with" is grounds to stop doing business with a service. It's a toxic attitude, but sadly common.
    - grahamj 2y ago
      Spotify was paying someone who disseminated anti-vaccine misinformation. I consider that dangerous and will not support it with my money. Being principled is not toxic.
mbesto 2y ago
You can create an iOS shortcut to convert Spotify to Apple Music as well. This is how my gf and I share (she has apple music and I have spotify)
pazimzadeh 2y ago
The youtube music matching didn't work for the first two songs I tried: Two Words by Kanye West: https://open.spotify.com/track/62wtttQzoIA9HnNmGVd9Yq?si=b1bf3bdbdbeb4277 https://open.spotify.com/track/62wtttQzoIA9HnNmGVd9Yq?si=b1b... Went to Two Words by Milabel Ranque: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Y64cFG9dfYo https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Y64cFG9dfYo Never Let Me Down by Kanye West: https://open.spotify.com/track/34j4OxJxKznBs88cjSL2j9?si=7ec40a9039374bef https://open.spotify.com/track/34j4OxJxKznBs88cjSL2j9?si=7ec... Went to Never Let me Down by Depeche Mode: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=snILjFUkk_A https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=snILjFUkk_A Even though the correct album art appeared on the site. Actually none of the songs I put it are working. Is this what it's supposed to do? Find songs with similar titles?
- shiroiushi 2y ago
  I don't see the problem here: it looks like it's working extremely well, and in fact doing you a huge favor, if it redirects you from Kanye West to anything else. Why on earth would you want to listen to Kanye West when you can listen to Depeche Mode instead? They do need to fix the bug with the album art though.
- cheema33 2y ago
  Kanye West? Maybe the misdirection is a feature, not a bug.
  - pazimzadeh 2y ago
    i miss the old kanye
- egecant 2y ago
  I don't understand why other people are hating on Kanye's music. I understand that he is not a very likeable person, but his music is damn good y'all. Especially the ones you tried :D
  - smolder 2y ago
    I don't think hating or lauding his music is really appropriate in this thread --it's kind of off topic. We can admit it's subjective and tastes will vary.
throwoutway 2y ago
I should create something simlar for Apple Music links I like this idea
- joemi 2y ago
  This works with Apple Music links too. From the site: "Paste a link from Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Deezer or SoundCloud to start."
AdmiralAsshat 2y ago
> Tidal No No No Well I guess I'll just go fuck myself, then.
- sjdonado 2y ago
  the tidal API was not publicly available last year. I tried it today and it seems it is no longer in beta, will get this adapter done soon!
mey 2y ago
This service connects to a few more services, but you can't just paste in an existing URL. https://odesli.co/ https://odesli.co/ it's more link tree type service but since you can search for songs and albums it makes it easy to find things. Example https://song.link/i/1051394215 https://song.link/i/1051394215
- hutattedonmyarm 2y ago
  You can paste in an existing url: https://odesli.co/https://open.spotify.com/track/1Yk0cQdMLx5RzzFTYwmuld https://odesli.co/https://open.spotify.com/track/1Yk0cQdMLx5... The placeholder in their search field even says "Search or paste URL"
mkhalil 2y ago
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 https://app.tunemymusic.com/transfer
- saretup 2y ago
  That’s the one I used when I moved from Spotify to YouTube music. Luckily my playlists contained less than 500 songs so the whole migration was easy and free.
- kristofferR 2y ago
  Playlisty is a great iOS/MacOS app for doing it locally if you're using Apple Music. https://www.obdura.com/playlisty/ https://www.obdura.com/playlisty/
- crossroadsguy 2y ago
  Or this https://playlists.cloud/ https://playlists.cloud/
  - djsavvy 2y ago
    Thanks for sharing! I didn't want to sign up for a monthly subscription to transfer my music...
    - mkhalil 2y ago
      I didn't even know TuneMyMusic had a premium service, but fwiw, it's free for the first 500 songs. I've only used it a few times and was pretty impressed at how many services it supports.
    - crossroadsguy 2y ago
      Agreed. Having said that I have used https://ko-fi.com/zzzrod https://ko-fi.com/zzzrod to support (if it can be called that) the dev (the link is from app homepage) as per my personal capacity. Because it is such an excellent service and provided for free and also because it isn't behind subscription. So thought I will share that. But of course it is perfectly fine to use it for free as well if one wants to. Cheers.
pbiggar 2y ago
Love it! Even since Spotify CEO Daniel Ek's investment company invested $100m into weapons tech, we've been looking at how to move off his platform. https://inthesetimes.com/article/spotify-military-industrial-complex-daniel-ek-prima-materia-helsing https://inthesetimes.com/article/spotify-military-industrial...
- Kiro 2y ago
  Helsing is currently helping Ukraine. It's easy to say "military bad" when you're in the US, but for Daniel Ek it's about self-preservation. As a fellow Scandinavian, I fully support him investing in defense tech.
  - pbiggar 2y ago
    It has shareholders which benefit from killing people, and who benefit more from war proliferating. How do you think that turns out in the long run? How has it turned out for Ukraine? War companies sell war, and they sell it to evil people (see Israel's apartheid and genocide in Gaza). The privatization of war is bad for everybody.
    - imp0cat 2y ago
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joshdavham 2y ago
Nice work! It got me thinking how useful something like an "I don't have instagram" app would be. Unfortunately I suspect it would be impossible to implement.
- Kwpolska 2y ago
  Finding equivalent content elsewhere is probably not going to happen. The best the service could do is show you Instagram content without requiring an Instagram account.
samelawrence 2y ago
Bandcamp + iTunes Match is the sauce for folks in the Apple ecosystem.
gertlex 2y ago
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.)
- sweca 2y ago
  the repository description sums it up already: Effortlessly convert Spotify links to your preferred streaming service
  - emsixteen 2y ago
    Honestly doesn't sum it up very well, given that it doesn't even mention that it's an extension.
- spondyl 2y ago
  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 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 at the time, I would find the Spotify equivalent for my own recommendations (to reduce friction for the majority so they'd be more likely to actually listen to the recommendation) Presumably for those few users not using Spotify, rather than having to find the equivalent song via text search, which may or may not contain a result for Provider Z, this service straight up just converts the Spotify link you've been given into all of the other provider equivalents.
  - adastra22 2y ago
    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.
pivic 2y ago
I use this page to create a page with links to all kinds of music providers: https://odesli.co https://odesli.co Works per artist, album, or song. Create a login to customise URLs. I'm just a user; I don't have a dog in this race.
- JadoJodo 2y ago
  They also have Slack integration (/songlink {url})
- herrherrmann 2y ago
  Yes, I also really like Songlink/Odesli! Their search also works faster than Spotify’s or Apple Music’s search.
- Outpox 2y ago
  I made a Discord bot which used songlinks API 5 years ago! Unfortunately not used much and not maintained anymore.
dailykoder 2y ago
Huh, that looks very interesting. A friend of mine made a streaming service back in the day where you could paste in youtube links, they got downloaded, added to a playlist and then you could listen to that together with friends on multiple computers. I always wanted to rebuild that and adjust to my needs. Now this convert thing from the OP seems to be an interesting extension to that. Just paste in spotify links, grab the YT one, yt-dlp it and there you go. Ill put this in my favorites, thanks!
- bdhcuidbebe 2y ago
  The hoops to go through to have a ”legal” napster. Also not sure yt-dlp is any more legal than just downloading mp3s.
  - dailykoder 2y ago
    Obviously it's all just a dream in a fantasy world. And even in that fantasy world it would be for friends only, not anything commercial. Edit: also we don't use mp3, we use free (tm) opus! (as in just yt-dlp -x )
higgins 2y ago
I run an ios shortcut to do the conversion when a friend messages a spotify link: https://x.com/justinprojects/status/1708184379326144925?s=46 https://x.com/justinprojects/status/1708184379326144925?s=46
joking 2y ago
One of the best services I get from my Nas is the ability to save the music there and be able to stream to my phone. I prefer to buy some music and have it there than relying in any subscription service.
- rubidium 2y ago
  Would you share what setup you use or recommend for this, both NAS and software for phone streaming?
  - loughnane 2y ago
    Not op but I have a similar setup. I have an old synology nas thats running Navidrome in a docker container. On my iPhone I use play:sub and point it to the local ip and port associated Navidrome. When I’m away I access the network through a WireGuard connection (set up on a protectli router running opnsense). Before I used traefik to expose it to the web. Takes some setup but once it works it’s great.
ibz 2y ago
I don't have Spotify, I have Navidrome. Self-hosted on a cheap old mini PC.
juliangmp 2y ago
Slightly off topic but does any one of the music streaming services actually not suck? Like I tried a bunch of them but each one made me quit in it's own unique way! Am I alone on this?
- tailspin2019 2y ago
  You are not alone
- 4ad 2y ago
  It would help if you specified exactly what you didn't like about them. I use Apple Music, I use it because it's lossless and it's integrated in the Apple ecosystem. The UX of the actual Music app is... not great, but tolerable, better than the iTunes before it. I listen to some pretty obscure stuff and I don't think I ever found something missing on it. YMMV.
  - legohead 2y ago
    Well I can tell you as a Spotify user that their random play is horrible. It's not truly random, which is extremely frustrating when you have 1000+ playlist and keep hearing the same 10 songs over and over. Here's an ongoing 150+ page, 4 years old thread about it on their forums: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/All-Platforms-Option-to-have-a-true-shuffle/idi-p/4880594#comments https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/All-Platforms-Op...
    - WorldMaker 2y ago
      The silly trick I found is to use Apple's Smart Playlists to help. I've been creating playlists like "Not heard since Jan 1, 2023". Songs drop out after they are played in a shuffle.
- dogleash 2y ago
  You're not alone. Streaming services' selling point is access to the catalogue. Everything else about the product tends towards being aggressively mid.
bni 2y ago
The EU should mandate that this gatekeeper (Spotify) make their links interoperable with other music streaming services.
- rsynnott 2y ago
  The minimum financials for consideration as a gatekeeper for the DMA are 75bn EUR market cap, or 7.5bn EUR turnover (in Europe). In the last week, Shopify's market cap exceeded 75bn EUR for the first time. So, y'know, might be coming.
- kristofferR 2y ago
  https://dtinit.org/blog/2024/08/27/DTI-members-new-music-tool https://dtinit.org/blog/2024/08/27/DTI-members-new-music-too... Apple, Google and Meta are Data Transfer Initiative members. I hope Spotify joins soon.
seanvelasco 2y ago
this feels more like an art piece or statement, not an actual tool what if i have a youtube link and i want to stream on spotify? what if i have an apple music link but want to play it on a linux device where only spotify works? it's more likely that you discovered a song on youtube and wanted to add it to your spotify playlist, rather than browsing spotify and then deciding to listen on another platform. someone should make a service like this, but make it universal for all platforms. however, i found the ability of matching a spotify artist profile to the artist's platform profiles impressive.
- nobody9999 2y ago
  >a linux device where only spotify works? Huh? What linux device might only have access to spotify? Pretty much every Linux distribution (with the possible exception of Linux From Scratch[0]) has multiple local apps to play music, both from the command line and via a gui in their standard package repositories. Not to mention dozens of sites (if you can get to spotify you can get to them) that perform the same function. Please do explain, as I'm pretty confused. [0] https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
  - seanvelasco 2y ago
    apologies, i meant i only have a linux device with only spotify installed, because it's the thing i use. no, i'm not talking about music players, only streaming services. you're completely right other services and software are available on linux. but the point i'm trying to make is, this tool is spotify -> others, but a common use-case is others -> spotify.
    - nobody9999 2y ago
      >apologies, i meant i only have a linux device with only spotify installed, because it's the thing i use. no, i'm not talking about music players, only streaming services. >you're completely right other services and software are available on linux. but the point i'm trying to make is, this tool is spotify -> others, but a common use-case is others -> spotify. No apologies necessary. I misunderstood your point, which is certainly a fair one. And given your use case, I get your frustration. That said, there are, apparently, a number of Linux apps and plugins for said apps that will allow you to play not only local music, but streams from Spotify as well as from other streaming services. I get that's not really what interests you, but it is an option if you choose. I don't use Spotify, so I haven't looked for tools to convert to Spotify links, but I'd expect they're out there, given that the reverse exists. Edit: Fixed typo.
doubleorseven 2y ago
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
justmarc 2y ago
Hear, hear! To more inclusive projects like this one.
pjmlp 2y ago
Me neither, still buying CDs and MP3, making my own playlists, with music that will outlast me.
Razengan 2y ago
Me neither, never used Spotify. I do use Apple Music, YouTube and SoundCloud though.
somishere 2y ago
Bring back echo nest's Rosetta stone. https://musicmachinery.com/2010/02/10/introducing-project-rosetta-stone/ https://musicmachinery.com/2010/02/10/introducing-project-ro...
wmeredith 2y ago
I started using Tidal earlier this year, simply because they pay artists more (it's still basically a pittance, but it's better.) If you share a song link using Tidal, it actually shares a landing page where the user can select from Tidal, Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon Music. It's really great.
impalallama 2y ago
no tidal support yet but looks very useful for one off uses
_jcrossley 2y ago
I built a proof of concept for a VC-scale app, and something like this is one of the core features. I applied to YC S24 and didn't get an interview (SUPER understandably). If anyone wants to hear details, shoot me an email (in bio); this project's vaporware until I find the right partner.
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notyourwork 2y ago
No support for Amazon Music is a bummer.
moffkalast 2y ago
I've never taken Spotify or any other music streaming service seriously. They are a joke for the same reason Netflix is, they only play limited licensed content so their selection inevitably drops and drops until everything you search ends with zero results. Obscure indie artists? Forget it. Add average 4G reliability to that and you have a service that never has what you need, and if they do it never works when you need it (e.g. long car rides in the middle of nowhere). And then they expect you to pay for it or listen to ads too. Nothing beats a good ol' folder of mp3s. And 128GB of the average phone can store many an mp3.
HeavyStorm 2y ago
Omg I was planning to build this for ages! That's very good.
teddyh 2y ago
I don’t have Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Deezer, SoundCloud, or Tidal. Would it be too much to ask for a link to be simply converted to the text “Songname by Artist”?
joshestroud 2y ago
AI

786 points by sjdonado 2y ago

This failed completely after trying to search for songs that don't have a unique name. This seemingly just does a basic string search on other streaming platforms. Sad...

xyst 2y ago

Switch out alternative streaming services with torrent links or alternatives ways to listen to the content. And you would actually have something here.

cglong 2y ago

Thank you for the submission! Should this be a Show HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

frei 2y ago

The first song I tried mapped incorrectly. Even though there was a green verified checkmark! > https://open.spotify.com/track/1Pfc1Qpj0s9vQumI0JvpBp https://open.spotify.com/track/1Pfc1Qpj0s9vQumI0JvpBp mapped to > https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ogoeWS6CDbI https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ogoeWS6CDbI but it should have mapped to > https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dfgKYWrRfoc https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dfgKYWrRfoc

jonesn11 2y ago

Spotify literally plays the same songs over and over...and creates features no one wants

fuzzfactor 2y ago

Could that be restated as "Spotify doesn't have me"?

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sjdonado 2y ago

It has a Raycast extension too https://www.raycast.com/sjdonado/idonthavespotify https://www.raycast.com/sjdonado/idonthavespotify

Kudos 2y ago

I built something very similar the last time I got laid off and needed something to do https://github.com/kudos/combine.fm https://github.com/kudos/combine.fm

excalibur 2y ago

Not seeing Pandora, apparently 46 million people still use that as of 2023

alpinisme 2y ago
46 million active users or 46 million accounts created?
- zxexz 2y ago
  I’d believe either, though the latter feels tiny. Pandora is still better than any of the others listed for discovering new music, IMO. Spotify always seems too conservative with its suggestions, making it worse for discovering new music. Subjective, of course.
  - dafelst 2y ago
    I agree, I feel like Pandora recommendations are far better than Spotify ones, at least for me. Spotify keeps me in my bubble, Pandora is constantly expanding it.
  - ProfessorLayton 2y ago
    I don't think it's subjective. Royalties aren't paid equally, and considering Spotify is partly owned by the record labels themselves, it makes sense to steer listeners.
  - chiefalchemist 2y ago
    I haven't tried Pandora lately but Spotify is horrible for suggestions. My goto remains BBC 6 Radio Music.
  - dankwizard 2y ago
    It is tiny - It's US only.
  - jollyllama 2y ago
    Pandora is also way more trainable. You can train that recommender with your thumbs up/down, and it's been like that for 15 years.

askonomm 2y ago

I'd love to actually buy music and store it myself, as I've started noticing more and more that some of the songs I have on Spotify have started to disappear, but I find it very difficult to buy modern music anymore. Most gets released as singles, and as far as I know, to only streaming platforms. Is there a way to still buy the same kind of music that is on streaming platforms, and actually get the audio files?

toastercat 2y ago
The most sustainable way to "buy" music IMO, is to pirate it, and then buy merch from the artist as support. Or just buy off Bandcamp if its an option.
- orblivion 2y ago
  I Don't Have Spotify should add Bandcamp support. Bandcamp is great for just playing the music too.
  - Syonyk 2y ago
    It's not. Artists will often enough remove old albums so you can no longer play them. Buy it, download as FLAC, put in your preferred local infrastructure to play. Plex/Plexamp works well, as does local file storage and a good command line music client if you're less GUI-friendly or don't have the resources for running them.
    - meeb 2y ago
      Downloading large collections can be a pain though, one at a time and in zips. I made this to help though https://github.com/meeb/bandcampsync https://github.com/meeb/bandcampsync Bandcamp is the only place to sensibly buy music you can own these days which is pretty depressing.
      - prmoustache 2y ago
        what about online music shops like bleep.com and 7digital?

mfkp 2y ago

A similar service that I use frequently to generate song.link URLs for sharing: https://odesli.co/ https://odesli.co/

volteret4 2y ago
Thanks for this, I used an automated script to create a post with links on my gh . This looks great, ty

toomuchtodo 2y ago

Is there a DOI equivalent for identifying music tracks?

welpo 2y ago
Yes, the International Standard Recording Code (ISRC): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Recording_Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Recordi... I don't know how to look up music with a known ISRC, though.
rajbot 2y ago
https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Identifier https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Identifier > One of MusicBrainz' aims is to be the universal lingua franca for music by providing a reliable and unambiguous form of music identification; this music identification is performed through the use of MusicBrainz Identifiers (MBIDs).
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- toomuchtodo 2y ago
  A damn shame they want $5k for mbid.org
  - volteret4 2y ago
    Could you tell me who? I love MBID but didnt read about that. Thanks in advance
    - toomuchtodo 2y ago
      Whomever has listed it at GoDaddy when you land on the domain in a browser. https://www.godaddy.com/forsale/mbid.org https://www.godaddy.com/forsale/mbid.org
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bean-weevil 2y ago

It would be fantastic if this site were a pwa that supported the chrome api [1] that lets you share directly to it on android. I would make a pr but my company owns all my ip and getting an exception takes months :( 1: https://chodounsky.com/2019/03/24/progressive-web-application-as-a-share-option-in-android/ https://chodounsky.com/2019/03/24/progressive-web-applicatio...

gkoberger 2y ago
I know it's a tough job market, but that's unacceptable! They won't change, but you shouldn't put up with that.
- bean-weevil 2y ago
  I'm not done trying to convince them. They're small enough that I think I have a legitimate chance.
recursive 2y ago
WTF I've never heard of this. I hope you're getting compensated well.
- bean-weevil 2y ago
  Unfortunately it's not uncommon here.
itishappy 2y ago
... don't do it at work? If your company owns your free time as well, you've fucked up and should talk to HR.
- bean-weevil 2y ago
  You're correct, I signed a contract that says they own my free time. I didn't exactly want to, and I firmly believe it's wrong. Nevertheless, it's easy to say I fucked up when you don't know my exact situation. This is my first job and there are a lot of other benefits that made it the best option for me personally, even when there were alternatives that had no such clause.

mfkp 2y ago

Doesn't appear to work for Youtube Music links... "Something went wrong, please try again later"

porridgeraisin 2y ago

When I used to maintain a discord music bot, it used to stream from YouTube. For Spotify urls to work though, I had to get YouTube search to work reliably. One trick which I found worked well was including the Spotify URL in the YouTube search along with the song name, artist name, etc. This helped quite a bit with picking out the "official" youtube video, since the official one often includes Spotify links in the video description, which YouTube search also matches against.

leddt 2y ago

I made a very simple chrome extension that automatically redirects you to your preferred music service when visiting another service. In my case I have it set to YouTube Music, so if I click a Spotify (or other) link in Slack, I'll be redirected to YouTube Music. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/music-link/gnhphofplilnmjlbakmplapbhbcifdip https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/music-link/gnhphofp...

mettamage 2y ago
This type of stuff is what make chrome extension development fun
vivzkestrel 2y ago
sounds amazing, how did you map the urls manually?
- lelandfe 2y ago
  https://github.com/leddt/music-link/blob/8faa5ceb0caa620499ed8bf11d7da770fb426115/src/background.js#L40 https://github.com/leddt/music-link/blob/8faa5ceb0caa620499e... I guess this is a free service? E.g https://api.song.link/v1-alpha.1/links?url=https://open.spotify.com/track/3Lzvh7TqjpAqybfejzX0hR https://api.song.link/v1-alpha.1/links?url=https://open.spot...
  - leddt 2y ago
    Exactly! Their docs are here: https://linktree.notion.site/API-d0ebe08a5e304a55928405eb682f6741 https://linktree.notion.site/API-d0ebe08a5e304a55928405eb682... It has a 10 request per minute rate limit, but no api key needed, so each user runs their own queries.
paranoidrobot 2y ago
Do you have a Firefox version of this?
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nipperkinfeet 2y ago

For me, it didn't work. The artists and tracks on almost all of the tracks I pasted were incorrect. I suppose it would only be compatible with mainstream music.

_DeadFred_ 2y ago

Now that the app algorithms are horrible can we all go back to something like last.fm so I can discover new music?

sph 2y ago
The real reason why last.fm lost to Spotify: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR8az1UMOiQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR8az1UMOiQ
conradfr 2y ago
You need to use webradios, there's lot of them. But you can't skip to the next tune so you need to skip to the next webradio instead ;)
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adrianmsmith 2y ago
last.fm is still there and you can still use it to discover new music!
- _DeadFred_ 2y ago
  As soon as they add Youtube music I'm in. I no longer give my money to Spotify.
cxr 2y ago
Let's go back to the word "algorithm" being used for what it actually means, instead of the opposite—like the way it's used here and in every article about social media written in the last 7 years.

vzaliva 2y ago

I have to deal with spotify links sent to me often and this is great. The better link would be to the actual service page, not github repo: https://idonthavespotify.donado.co/ https://idonthavespotify.donado.co/ It would be fantastic to have this as an extension for us, Firefox users. I hope someone makes one someday.

JadeNB 2y ago
> It would be fantastic to have this as an extension for us, Firefox users. I hope someone makes one someday. If there's some easy way to figure out where that id parameter in the results page comes from (I assume some simple hash of the link), then you could probably even just make it a bookmarklet.
ThrowawayTestr 2y ago
Why do you get Spotify links sent to you often?
- johnisgood 2y ago
  Probably because his friends use it.
  - ThrowawayTestr 2y ago
    I know what services my friends use and make sure to send them the appropriate link whenever I suggest music
    - johnisgood 2y ago
      I do, too, but not everyone does that, and many people, say, on Discord, just link to Spotify.

Touche 2y ago

I'm still mad that they killed Rdio because Spotify was "free". Will never use it.

astrostl 2y ago
Best user interface for music ever. It was nearly perfect IMO. Still mad too!

grahamj 2y ago

This is great, thanks! I left Spotify when they signed Rogan.

imperialdrive 2y ago
I don't follow. Is he anti music or something? Afaik he's on Apple, Amazon, and Youtube as well. Do you not use anything related to him? I'm honestly curious for some reason.
- rzzzt 2y ago
  His podcast was exclusively on Spotify for a while, for a measurable amount of money (the article is from February when that portion of the deal ended): https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/joe-rogan-renews-spotify-deal-not-exclusive-1235895424/ https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/joe-rogan-renews-spoti...
- CalRobert 2y ago
  Personally, I don't like the idea of my money supporting people who oppose vaccination, among other things.
  - grahamj 2y ago
    Exactly
- bigstrat2003 2y ago
  Some people are intolerant and think that "they allow someone who I disagree with" is grounds to stop doing business with a service. It's a toxic attitude, but sadly common.
  - grahamj 2y ago
    Spotify was paying someone who disseminated anti-vaccine misinformation. I consider that dangerous and will not support it with my money. Being principled is not toxic.

mbesto 2y ago

You can create an iOS shortcut to convert Spotify to Apple Music as well. This is how my gf and I share (she has apple music and I have spotify)

pazimzadeh 2y ago

The youtube music matching didn't work for the first two songs I tried: Two Words by Kanye West: https://open.spotify.com/track/62wtttQzoIA9HnNmGVd9Yq?si=b1bf3bdbdbeb4277 https://open.spotify.com/track/62wtttQzoIA9HnNmGVd9Yq?si=b1b... Went to Two Words by Milabel Ranque: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Y64cFG9dfYo https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Y64cFG9dfYo Never Let Me Down by Kanye West: https://open.spotify.com/track/34j4OxJxKznBs88cjSL2j9?si=7ec40a9039374bef https://open.spotify.com/track/34j4OxJxKznBs88cjSL2j9?si=7ec... Went to Never Let me Down by Depeche Mode: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=snILjFUkk_A https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=snILjFUkk_A Even though the correct album art appeared on the site. Actually none of the songs I put it are working. Is this what it's supposed to do? Find songs with similar titles?

shiroiushi 2y ago
I don't see the problem here: it looks like it's working extremely well, and in fact doing you a huge favor, if it redirects you from Kanye West to anything else. Why on earth would you want to listen to Kanye West when you can listen to Depeche Mode instead? They do need to fix the bug with the album art though.
cheema33 2y ago
Kanye West? Maybe the misdirection is a feature, not a bug.
- pazimzadeh 2y ago
  i miss the old kanye
egecant 2y ago
I don't understand why other people are hating on Kanye's music. I understand that he is not a very likeable person, but his music is damn good y'all. Especially the ones you tried :D
- smolder 2y ago
  I don't think hating or lauding his music is really appropriate in this thread --it's kind of off topic. We can admit it's subjective and tastes will vary.

throwoutway 2y ago

I should create something simlar for Apple Music links I like this idea

joemi 2y ago
This works with Apple Music links too. From the site: "Paste a link from Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Deezer or SoundCloud to start."

AdmiralAsshat 2y ago

> Tidal No No No Well I guess I'll just go fuck myself, then.

sjdonado 2y ago
the tidal API was not publicly available last year. I tried it today and it seems it is no longer in beta, will get this adapter done soon!

mey 2y ago

This service connects to a few more services, but you can't just paste in an existing URL. https://odesli.co/ https://odesli.co/ it's more link tree type service but since you can search for songs and albums it makes it easy to find things. Example https://song.link/i/1051394215 https://song.link/i/1051394215

hutattedonmyarm 2y ago
You can paste in an existing url: https://odesli.co/https://open.spotify.com/track/1Yk0cQdMLx5RzzFTYwmuld https://odesli.co/https://open.spotify.com/track/1Yk0cQdMLx5... The placeholder in their search field even says "Search or paste URL"

mkhalil 2y ago

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 https://app.tunemymusic.com/transfer

saretup 2y ago
That’s the one I used when I moved from Spotify to YouTube music. Luckily my playlists contained less than 500 songs so the whole migration was easy and free.
kristofferR 2y ago
Playlisty is a great iOS/MacOS app for doing it locally if you're using Apple Music. https://www.obdura.com/playlisty/ https://www.obdura.com/playlisty/
crossroadsguy 2y ago
Or this https://playlists.cloud/ https://playlists.cloud/
- djsavvy 2y ago
  Thanks for sharing! I didn't want to sign up for a monthly subscription to transfer my music...
  - mkhalil 2y ago
    I didn't even know TuneMyMusic had a premium service, but fwiw, it's free for the first 500 songs. I've only used it a few times and was pretty impressed at how many services it supports.
  - crossroadsguy 2y ago
    Agreed. Having said that I have used https://ko-fi.com/zzzrod https://ko-fi.com/zzzrod to support (if it can be called that) the dev (the link is from app homepage) as per my personal capacity. Because it is such an excellent service and provided for free and also because it isn't behind subscription. So thought I will share that. But of course it is perfectly fine to use it for free as well if one wants to. Cheers.

pbiggar 2y ago

Love it! Even since Spotify CEO Daniel Ek's investment company invested $100m into weapons tech, we've been looking at how to move off his platform. https://inthesetimes.com/article/spotify-military-industrial-complex-daniel-ek-prima-materia-helsing https://inthesetimes.com/article/spotify-military-industrial...

Kiro 2y ago
Helsing is currently helping Ukraine. It's easy to say "military bad" when you're in the US, but for Daniel Ek it's about self-preservation. As a fellow Scandinavian, I fully support him investing in defense tech.
- pbiggar 2y ago
  It has shareholders which benefit from killing people, and who benefit more from war proliferating. How do you think that turns out in the long run? How has it turned out for Ukraine? War companies sell war, and they sell it to evil people (see Israel's apartheid and genocide in Gaza). The privatization of war is bad for everybody.
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joshdavham 2y ago

Nice work! It got me thinking how useful something like an "I don't have instagram" app would be. Unfortunately I suspect it would be impossible to implement.

Kwpolska 2y ago
Finding equivalent content elsewhere is probably not going to happen. The best the service could do is show you Instagram content without requiring an Instagram account.

samelawrence 2y ago

Bandcamp + iTunes Match is the sauce for folks in the Apple ecosystem.

gertlex 2y ago

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.)

sweca 2y ago
the repository description sums it up already: Effortlessly convert Spotify links to your preferred streaming service
- emsixteen 2y ago
  Honestly doesn't sum it up very well, given that it doesn't even mention that it's an extension.
spondyl 2y ago
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 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 at the time, I would find the Spotify equivalent for my own recommendations (to reduce friction for the majority so they'd be more likely to actually listen to the recommendation) Presumably for those few users not using Spotify, rather than having to find the equivalent song via text search, which may or may not contain a result for Provider Z, this service straight up just converts the Spotify link you've been given into all of the other provider equivalents.
- adastra22 2y ago
  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.

pivic 2y ago

I use this page to create a page with links to all kinds of music providers: https://odesli.co https://odesli.co Works per artist, album, or song. Create a login to customise URLs. I'm just a user; I don't have a dog in this race.

JadoJodo 2y ago
They also have Slack integration (/songlink {url})
herrherrmann 2y ago
Yes, I also really like Songlink/Odesli! Their search also works faster than Spotify’s or Apple Music’s search.
Outpox 2y ago
I made a Discord bot which used songlinks API 5 years ago! Unfortunately not used much and not maintained anymore.

dailykoder 2y ago

Huh, that looks very interesting. A friend of mine made a streaming service back in the day where you could paste in youtube links, they got downloaded, added to a playlist and then you could listen to that together with friends on multiple computers. I always wanted to rebuild that and adjust to my needs. Now this convert thing from the OP seems to be an interesting extension to that. Just paste in spotify links, grab the YT one, yt-dlp it and there you go. Ill put this in my favorites, thanks!

bdhcuidbebe 2y ago
The hoops to go through to have a ”legal” napster. Also not sure yt-dlp is any more legal than just downloading mp3s.
- dailykoder 2y ago
  Obviously it's all just a dream in a fantasy world. And even in that fantasy world it would be for friends only, not anything commercial. Edit: also we don't use mp3, we use free (tm) opus! (as in just yt-dlp -x )

higgins 2y ago

I run an ios shortcut to do the conversion when a friend messages a spotify link: https://x.com/justinprojects/status/1708184379326144925?s=46 https://x.com/justinprojects/status/1708184379326144925?s=46

joking 2y ago

One of the best services I get from my Nas is the ability to save the music there and be able to stream to my phone. I prefer to buy some music and have it there than relying in any subscription service.

rubidium 2y ago
Would you share what setup you use or recommend for this, both NAS and software for phone streaming?
- loughnane 2y ago
  Not op but I have a similar setup. I have an old synology nas thats running Navidrome in a docker container. On my iPhone I use play:sub and point it to the local ip and port associated Navidrome. When I’m away I access the network through a WireGuard connection (set up on a protectli router running opnsense). Before I used traefik to expose it to the web. Takes some setup but once it works it’s great.

ibz 2y ago

I don't have Spotify, I have Navidrome. Self-hosted on a cheap old mini PC.

juliangmp 2y ago

Slightly off topic but does any one of the music streaming services actually not suck? Like I tried a bunch of them but each one made me quit in it's own unique way! Am I alone on this?

tailspin2019 2y ago
You are not alone
4ad 2y ago
It would help if you specified exactly what you didn't like about them. I use Apple Music, I use it because it's lossless and it's integrated in the Apple ecosystem. The UX of the actual Music app is... not great, but tolerable, better than the iTunes before it. I listen to some pretty obscure stuff and I don't think I ever found something missing on it. YMMV.
- legohead 2y ago
  Well I can tell you as a Spotify user that their random play is horrible. It's not truly random, which is extremely frustrating when you have 1000+ playlist and keep hearing the same 10 songs over and over. Here's an ongoing 150+ page, 4 years old thread about it on their forums: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/All-Platforms-Option-to-have-a-true-shuffle/idi-p/4880594#comments https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/All-Platforms-Op...
  - WorldMaker 2y ago
    The silly trick I found is to use Apple's Smart Playlists to help. I've been creating playlists like "Not heard since Jan 1, 2023". Songs drop out after they are played in a shuffle.
dogleash 2y ago
You're not alone. Streaming services' selling point is access to the catalogue. Everything else about the product tends towards being aggressively mid.

bni 2y ago

The EU should mandate that this gatekeeper (Spotify) make their links interoperable with other music streaming services.

rsynnott 2y ago
The minimum financials for consideration as a gatekeeper for the DMA are 75bn EUR market cap, or 7.5bn EUR turnover (in Europe). In the last week, Shopify's market cap exceeded 75bn EUR for the first time. So, y'know, might be coming.
kristofferR 2y ago
https://dtinit.org/blog/2024/08/27/DTI-members-new-music-tool https://dtinit.org/blog/2024/08/27/DTI-members-new-music-too... Apple, Google and Meta are Data Transfer Initiative members. I hope Spotify joins soon.

seanvelasco 2y ago

this feels more like an art piece or statement, not an actual tool what if i have a youtube link and i want to stream on spotify? what if i have an apple music link but want to play it on a linux device where only spotify works? it's more likely that you discovered a song on youtube and wanted to add it to your spotify playlist, rather than browsing spotify and then deciding to listen on another platform. someone should make a service like this, but make it universal for all platforms. however, i found the ability of matching a spotify artist profile to the artist's platform profiles impressive.

nobody9999 2y ago
>a linux device where only spotify works? Huh? What linux device might only have access to spotify? Pretty much every Linux distribution (with the possible exception of Linux From Scratch[0]) has multiple local apps to play music, both from the command line and via a gui in their standard package repositories. Not to mention dozens of sites (if you can get to spotify you can get to them) that perform the same function. Please do explain, as I'm pretty confused. [0] https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
- seanvelasco 2y ago
  apologies, i meant i only have a linux device with only spotify installed, because it's the thing i use. no, i'm not talking about music players, only streaming services. you're completely right other services and software are available on linux. but the point i'm trying to make is, this tool is spotify -> others, but a common use-case is others -> spotify.
  - nobody9999 2y ago
    >apologies, i meant i only have a linux device with only spotify installed, because it's the thing i use. no, i'm not talking about music players, only streaming services. >you're completely right other services and software are available on linux. but the point i'm trying to make is, this tool is spotify -> others, but a common use-case is others -> spotify. No apologies necessary. I misunderstood your point, which is certainly a fair one. And given your use case, I get your frustration. That said, there are, apparently, a number of Linux apps and plugins for said apps that will allow you to play not only local music, but streams from Spotify as well as from other streaming services. I get that's not really what interests you, but it is an option if you choose. I don't use Spotify, so I haven't looked for tools to convert to Spotify links, but I'd expect they're out there, given that the reverse exists. Edit: Fixed typo.

doubleorseven 2y ago

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

justmarc 2y ago

Hear, hear! To more inclusive projects like this one.

pjmlp 2y ago

Me neither, still buying CDs and MP3, making my own playlists, with music that will outlast me.

Razengan 2y ago

Me neither, never used Spotify. I do use Apple Music, YouTube and SoundCloud though.

somishere 2y ago

Bring back echo nest's Rosetta stone. https://musicmachinery.com/2010/02/10/introducing-project-rosetta-stone/ https://musicmachinery.com/2010/02/10/introducing-project-ro...

wmeredith 2y ago

I started using Tidal earlier this year, simply because they pay artists more (it's still basically a pittance, but it's better.) If you share a song link using Tidal, it actually shares a landing page where the user can select from Tidal, Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon Music. It's really great.

impalallama 2y ago

no tidal support yet but looks very useful for one off uses

_jcrossley 2y ago

I built a proof of concept for a VC-scale app, and something like this is one of the core features. I applied to YC S24 and didn't get an interview (SUPER understandably). If anyone wants to hear details, shoot me an email (in bio); this project's vaporware until I find the right partner.

Melonotromo 2y ago
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notyourwork 2y ago

No support for Amazon Music is a bummer.

moffkalast 2y ago

I've never taken Spotify or any other music streaming service seriously. They are a joke for the same reason Netflix is, they only play limited licensed content so their selection inevitably drops and drops until everything you search ends with zero results. Obscure indie artists? Forget it. Add average 4G reliability to that and you have a service that never has what you need, and if they do it never works when you need it (e.g. long car rides in the middle of nowhere). And then they expect you to pay for it or listen to ads too. Nothing beats a good ol' folder of mp3s. And 128GB of the average phone can store many an mp3.

HeavyStorm 2y ago

Omg I was planning to build this for ages! That's very good.

teddyh 2y ago

I don’t have Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Deezer, SoundCloud, or Tidal. Would it be too much to ask for a link to be simply converted to the text “Songname by Artist”?

joshestroud 2y ago