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Better title: Convert sharing links between music services

I understand it probably comes from the original motivation, but the name seems unfortunate since you can totally use it to convert to Spotify from e.g. iTunes if you do have Spotify but just not one of the dozen competitor subscription services

I use https://song.link (or Odesli). It finds the link to the song on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, YouTube Music, Pandora, Deezer, SoundCloud, Tidal, Amazon Music, AudioMack, Anghami, Napster, Yandex and BoomPlay, maybe more.

Previously on HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42110877>

If one is thinking about switching from Apple Music to Spotify, can someone recommend a website to automatically move the song collection? I think it was easier a while ago but then Apple cracked down on it, so I am not sure if there's an automated option now

Nice. Please add Bandcamp (might have to be a link to a search, I know)

Issue: https://github.com/sjdonado/idonthavespotify/issues/32

While the name is a bit click baity, I still keep buying good old CDs, or DRM free MP3s.

I maintain a playlist/mixtape here for fun that doesn't rely on Spotify - just YouTube but with a very different audio focused UI

https://donohoe.dev/mixtape/

Small UX thing: I would have loved to not had to inspect element to grab the placeholder text to test it out :)

Before I enable JavaScript, exactly what is this supposed to do?

I have wanted something like this for a long time. My wife uses yt for music and I use Spotify

First problem I have using this in my iPhone is that the url bar is wider than the screen (maybe due to my font?) and I can’t even manage to paste a link into it unless I turn the phone sideways. The other problem is that the links she sends are google search link which triggers some kind of weird “search” behavior from the browser

This could be awesome but the paste behavior on iPhone is just so terrible

I dont have Spotify either. I have self determination.

I want to start buying music (and film/series), to eventually be less dependent on services. Where can I buy DRM free music (and film/series)?

Please add pirate MP3.

I would also support this as a browser extension, possibly with an auto redirect!

Responding to the title..

I also don't have spotify. I used to have spotify but it started playing spanish language commercials for no apparent reason and their support wouldn't do anything about it other than inform me that if I paid for an account there would be no commercials. So I started paying for apple music.

Ok, I'm not in on the joke. What's going on here?

Registration is free though

With music I gave up and just listen to soma fm. I donate $40 a year. Download wat I like if needed from YouTube illegally

It doesn't work, at least with Spotify playlists.

> Something went wrong, please try again later.

What's it supposed to do?

Is there a way to create an always up to date mirror of a curated Spotify Playlist to Apple Music (such as Top Hits of X country?). Apple doesn't have a large selection of dynamically generated playlists

"Not available on other platforms."

But it is...

Niceeeeee

Took me a while to figure out that "example" link is just a placeholder, and not an actual link to test the service with. Clicking "Search" without any link results in "Something went wrong, please try again later." error message, although more precise error message is returned "Invalid link, please try with Spotify or Youtube links." - it should be displayed instead. Overall, why not add a sentence or two about what this website actually does?

Couldn't we have a music:// protocol or something, to be opened by the OS's preferred music app? Anything like that already exist?

I created an app a while ago that would allow converting a link right through the sharing dialog on iOS and Android.

Unfortunately, the app wouldn't show up in the play stores search results even if you searched for its exact name and on iOS the app didn't make it through the review process because it has no UI. So I took it down after a while although I still feel like it's a handy tool if people send you music.

https://github.com/vbackeberg/share-song-2

I feel like if you're going to have an example that presumably works, it should be value instead of placeholder or at least default the request to whatever is in the placeholder input if you click submit.

This reminds me of similar discussions we've been having about this topic. The key challenge I see is implementation at scale.

The first use case that comes to mind (if this had an API, which I don't think it does), is to easily convert a list of Spotify links into different links that can be downloaded from `yt-dlp`.

who asked

I didn't realise Spotify was a link sharing platform. Oh wait, it's not.