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We need a Music Playlist Synchronization platform (lemmy.kde.social)
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Hello! I was looking for alternatives for Spotify to listen to music and create and share playlists with friends, and found a huge amount of players, both local and streaming, but none of them offered a reliable way to share playlists with friends. So here me out: what if there were a federated, self hostable platform where you can create an account, that provides an API that all the million music app can integrate easily in order to synchronize and share them also with people that uses other apps? Do you think it would work? I believe that if something like this would widespread, huge music companies like Spotify and Youtube wouldn't implement such a thing, but that perhaps would be also a way to "disincentivize" people from using those services!

"Hi friends Me on musicapp1 and Fred on musicapp2 created this cool playlist, hear it out!!"

"Sorry I pay 12$/month for Spotify, I cannot see it"

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Maybe if we extended ListenBrainz to support a bunch of APIs for syncing playlists to services.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah, you gotta poll their API they don't support push.

But when it comes to playlists, the API allows vast possibilities when it comes to playlist management.

https://rain0r.github.io/listenbrainz-openapi/index.html

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, my point is that we need a service alongside ListenBrainz to take Playlists from there and push it somewhere else like Spotify, Tidal, Jellyfin, whatever.

Something like Soundiiz but FOSS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Mhm I use Explo (written in go) to pull from listenBrainz and write playlists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can you give me a link? The name is pretty much unsearchable

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

something like this, yes. It was better if it wasn't centralized perhaps, but if that wouldn't be feasible then something like ListenBrainz with the ability to add playlist to your account and sync them with a simple API would work