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I'd love to see the same for public playlists. Example: an anonymous user pastes the URL to a public playlist that someone else made on, say, Spotify. The Web a
by troydavis 6y ago
I'd love to see the same for public playlists. Example: an anonymous user pastes the URL to a public playlist that someone else made on, say, Spotify. The Web app creates a public playlist on another platform -- or even just spits out a bookmarkable "Playlist equivalent page" that has Songwhip links for each tracks (and the user has to play each one).
Given the number of public Spotify playlists, I'm a little surprised that TIDAL, Deezer, or Qobuz clients don't have native support for pasting URLs to public Spotify playlists. Even if it couldn't authoritatively match the songs and instead played the first search result match (for artist name and song title), it would be right 99% of the time.
- Closi 6y agoI assume because these count as material for which Spotify technically has copyright over, or at least has been assigned a license to use, so importing them into a competitor app is likely to cause litigation.
- troydavis 6y agoI’m referring to songs that the other apps also have. As an example, both Spotify and TIDAL have licenses for - and will happily play - the vast majority of the North American catalog. Spotify has more user-created public playlists, but not a ton more music.
- Closi 6y agoI mean collections of songs (ie playlists) are themselves copyrightable. Even if they have the songs licenced, they cannot copy playlists from Spotify without risking legal action. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_in_compilation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_in_compilation Spotify actually got sued after some users uploaded playlists that copied ministry of sound playlists, so there is some history of actual litigation in this area.
- troydavis 6y agoThanks, that's fascinating. At least from a cursory search (https://www.google.com/search?q=are+public+playlists+copyrighted https://www.google.com/search?q=are+public+playlists+copyrig...), conclusive case law doesn't seem to exist in the US. In the UK, the one case I found was settled (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/27/spotify-ministry-of-sound-lawsuit-settlement https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/27/spotify-m...) and didn't address an app/company attempting to enforce a copyright license received when a user created a playlist. It's not clear in either jurisdiction, but like you said, litigation is definitely possible.
- elviva404 6y agoThere’s actually a web app that does exactly what you are describing. It seamlessly converts playlists between apple music to spotify and vice versa. Check it out https://playlistor.io/ https://playlistor.io/ .
- troydavis 6y agoThank you! This is really close. It doesn't solve my personal need but it may work for others. It only works with Apple Music, which isn't the app I use. Also, when I paste a public Spotify playlist URL (source), it asks for my Apple Music credentials instead of creating a public Apple Music playlist or if that's not possible, generating a page with play links. Still, it's trying to solve the same problem and may work for others. I appreciate the link.
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- elviva404 6y agoYou are welcome. With spotify to Apple music conversion, your credentials are needed because the Apple music endpoint requires the user to be authenticated to be able to create playlists. Also, after a successful conversion, the links to each platforms playlist is listed on the web app. I thank you for checking it out.
- nikisweeting 6y agoMy experience in trying this recently was that https://www.tunemymusic.com/ https://www.tunemymusic.com/ was able to match more of my iTunes library to Spotify than Playlistor, but YMMV.
- krrrh 6y agoThere's a good iOS app that converts playlists, and will help you resolve situations where an exact match isn't automatically found. https://songshift.com https://songshift.com