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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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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm self-hosting Navidrome, which does sync playlists. However, Android clients generally suck, so I'm using Symfonium (paid app) to access my NAS music files.

If you can put up with the currently available Navidrome clients, then that's a FOSS (and self-hosted) solution to consider.

[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

I already looked into Navidrome, but as far as I understand you have to keep a music library on the server, and then you can stream from there.

What I was thinking instead was just a playlist sync server: the music player apps will still play music from they were playing before, so some from local files, some from YouTube, some from Navidrome ecc, but the playlists are synced on this served and can be exchanged with other users that use different players

[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you export playlists from Navidrome? I’m running it and can’t see a way of doing that. (The workaround I’m using is building playlists in Synology Audio Station and then setting up Navidrome to import them. If you know a better way of doing this I’d be interested.)

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you export playlists from Navidrome?

This button saves an m3u file.

Because I use symfonium on Android, playlists sync between my device to Navidrome.

[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you. You are absolutely right and it was right there in front of me!

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

No problem! I'm fairly new to Navidrome (from Synology Audio), and while I don't use Navidrome directly through a browser, I know that it's compatible with more third-party apps, and I've been happy with how it's been working.