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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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[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 11 points 6 days ago

So something like ListenBrainz.org

[-] mac@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Seconded. The more people we get on listenbrainz, the better.

I have Multi-Scrobbler set up and scrobble all of my listens to it. Hoping that more people do as well because I want better recommendations for some of my niche listens!!!

[-] exu@feditown.com 1 points 6 days ago

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

[-] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 5 days 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

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

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

[-] exu@feditown.com 3 points 6 days ago

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

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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

[-] exu@feditown.com 1 points 6 days ago

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

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago

Https://GitHub.com/LumePart/Explo

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