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We need a Music Playlist Synchronization platform (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

It's not FOSS afaik, but it's free and works really well: https://www.tunemymusic.com/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's actually very very cool, the closest to what I imagined. Yeah sadly it doesn't seem to be FOSS

The main difference with my "idea" is that this one creates a copy of the playlist on each service, so if you want to share it you need to know which player the other person is going to use, or just send him all the links. My idea instead has just a single playlist, accessible with API that can be used by every music player

thanks for sharing this!

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

With your idea, does the service (eg yt music, Spotify) have to specifically support the API?

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

Yes, it's like a common "protocol". Probably huge music apps like youtube and spotify would never adopt such a thing unless it become really really widespread among other platforms, but just being able to share them across FOSS music players would be amazing imo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe even FOSS wrappers for the big services. Such as https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music/

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