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We need a Music Playlist Synchronization platform (lemmy.kde.social)
submitted 3 weeks ago by tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social to c/foss@beehaw.org
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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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[–] Iapar@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That could be just a JSON file.

How about you make up the structure and we all adopt it?

[–] elmicha@feddit.org 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or use an existing format like .m3u or .pls.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

Can those handle the meta data for the track name, artist and release date. Assuming you want a portable playlist that can then find the track on the recipients preferred platform (streaming provider or self hosting). Given that a lot of tagging is trash maybe also included an audio fingerprint for validation?

[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How about you make up the structure and we all adopt it?

I would like to have the capabilities and the time to do this XD

I think that the best possiblity for something like this would be that a already popular music player created this alongside the player, and already adopted it, allowing sharing playlists with users on the same app. This way, all other music players would have the possibility to adopt it themselves in order to be able to share the playlists with users on their app and on the original music player, and so on