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Show HN: Price My Spotify Library

49 points by devrob 4y ago

Hi HN, I built this tool to estimate how much it would cost to purchase all the music in a user's Spotify library and individual playlists. Kind of interesting, maybe you'll like it too

qup 4y ago
I'm gonna check this out when I'm back at my PC. Sorry it didn't get more traction, it's a great idea. I think it would be cool to extend it to provide links and maybe like price shopping, if there's any serious consideration to actually buy the libraries.
- davak 4y ago
  Agree. You could consider marketing to the DJ community where actually buying the music is commonplace.
  - devrob 4y ago
    Hi there, funny enough part of the motivation for me to build this was that I am a DJ and purchase a lot of music. I'm actually building an app right called Crates which is focused on DJs and music purchasers https://getcrates.xyz https://getcrates.xyz. I was thinking of integrating purchases into the app somehow, we will see!
mojifwisi 4y ago
The concept is interesting, thanks for sharing. I suggest that in future iterations/versions, it could take the duration of the tracks into account: a two-minute track certainly doesn't cost as much as a track that is almost three hours long (extreme example, I know, but album-length tracks are not that uncommon).[1] [1]: https://open.spotify.com/track/6jfQOSSQImYlyxeSAi6jh7?si=37567a19b0fb4b7d https://open.spotify.com/track/6jfQOSSQImYlyxeSAi6jh7?si=375...
antipotoad 4y ago
Nice idea, though this doesn’t seem to be doing more than multiplying the song count by $0.99. With a simple UI and lookups to an actual song catalog for prices, this could be a neat tool.
- heinekan 4y ago
  For me (United States) the pricing for songs is inaccurate if relying on iTunes. A single song is actually $1.29, and from what I sampled full albums are typically $12.99. Definitely a cool idea that could be expanded on!
- devrob 4y ago
  Yep this is really fair and good feedback :) For a first hacky iteration the 0,99 was an average iTunes track.
barbazoo 4y ago
I get it, I want to get off the public cloud too. But as someone with a pretty random and shallow taste in music, I also appreciate how Spotify broadens my horizon by suggesting other, similar songs with similar attributes but slight variations. That helps me eventually discovering genres or styles that I like. I think there's a lot of value in that for a lot of people. Maybe Spotify could be one of the good guys.

49 points by devrob 4y ago

Hi HN, I built this tool to estimate how much it would cost to purchase all the music in a user's Spotify library and individual playlists. Kind of interesting, maybe you'll like it too

qup 4y ago

I'm gonna check this out when I'm back at my PC. Sorry it didn't get more traction, it's a great idea. I think it would be cool to extend it to provide links and maybe like price shopping, if there's any serious consideration to actually buy the libraries.

davak 4y ago
Agree. You could consider marketing to the DJ community where actually buying the music is commonplace.
- devrob 4y ago
  Hi there, funny enough part of the motivation for me to build this was that I am a DJ and purchase a lot of music. I'm actually building an app right called Crates which is focused on DJs and music purchasers https://getcrates.xyz https://getcrates.xyz. I was thinking of integrating purchases into the app somehow, we will see!

mojifwisi 4y ago

The concept is interesting, thanks for sharing. I suggest that in future iterations/versions, it could take the duration of the tracks into account: a two-minute track certainly doesn't cost as much as a track that is almost three hours long (extreme example, I know, but album-length tracks are not that uncommon).[1] [1]: https://open.spotify.com/track/6jfQOSSQImYlyxeSAi6jh7?si=37567a19b0fb4b7d https://open.spotify.com/track/6jfQOSSQImYlyxeSAi6jh7?si=375...

antipotoad 4y ago

Nice idea, though this doesn’t seem to be doing more than multiplying the song count by $0.99. With a simple UI and lookups to an actual song catalog for prices, this could be a neat tool.

heinekan 4y ago
For me (United States) the pricing for songs is inaccurate if relying on iTunes. A single song is actually $1.29, and from what I sampled full albums are typically $12.99. Definitely a cool idea that could be expanded on!
devrob 4y ago
Yep this is really fair and good feedback :) For a first hacky iteration the 0,99 was an average iTunes track.

barbazoo 4y ago

I get it, I want to get off the public cloud too. But as someone with a pretty random and shallow taste in music, I also appreciate how Spotify broadens my horizon by suggesting other, similar songs with similar attributes but slight variations. That helps me eventually discovering genres or styles that I like. I think there's a lot of value in that for a lot of people. Maybe Spotify could be one of the good guys.