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I Don't Have Spotify
- zahlman 1y agoBefore I enable JavaScript, exactly what is this supposed to do?
- incone123 1y agoFrom their GitHub: Effortlessly convert Spotify links to your preferred streaming service
- nemomarx 1y agoLinks to songs or can it get full play lists too?
- incone123 1y agoSorry, I'm not the author. I don't have Spotify either.
- mattigames 1y agoSongs, if you paste playlist it just searches for a playlist with similar words in their title.
- OJFord 1y agoThat seems correct really? I suppose the other thing it could do would be to fetch each song at that point in time and link them individually. But then if you want that, you can always do that from the original ones anyway.
- Snacklive 1y agoSeems like you can provide the link of an Spotify hosted song and the site would give you links for alternatives such as Youtube Premium and Apple Music
- mulhoon 1y agoHow do you even browse the web? Is it common for people to disable JavaScript?
- temp0826 1y agoI usually keep js disabled by default with uBO and enable it per-site when it fails. Not terribly inconvenient (worst is auth workflows that bounce you through a few domains, but just save your settings as you go through it and you would only need to do that once for that flow).
- ruuda 1y agoNot the poster, but I also leave js disabled by default. Meltdown/Spectre made it very clear that automatically executing untrusted third-party code securely is basically impossible. I browse the web using Chromium. I don’t think it’s common for people to disable js, but it works way better than you might expect. It’s easy to add an exception for the handful of sites that really need it. (Just three clicks.) Half of the web becomes better (no ads, no cookie banners). The other half stops working entirely, but usually that’s just a reminder that the content was probably not worth reading in the first place.
- bee_rider 1y agoI keep it disabled by default (noscript) it is a tossup, lots of sites just load the essentials with JavaScript disabled and are, as a result, much better. Others break entirely. The ones that totally break tend to be the silly over-designed ones though. Most useful info is available in plain text (see the phenomenon of an old research professor’s home page). How common? Dunno. People here talk about it whenever it comes up. As a website for chit-chatting about tech stuff we have an unusually large population that cares about this kind of stuff, though.
- HelloUsername 1y agoHow _do_ you browse the web with Js enabeld?
- can16358p 1y ago
- crtasm 1y agoNice. Please add Bandcamp (might have to be a link to a search, I know) Issue: https://github.com/sjdonado/idonthavespotify/issues/32 https://github.com/sjdonado/idonthavespotify/issues/32
- rasengan 1y ago[flagged]
- platevoltage 1y agoIt probably has more to do with other streaming services existing, and having a significant enough market share for this to tool to be useful for people.
- quectophoton 1y agoThe 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`.
- henjodottech 1y agoThis would be great
- chickensong 1y agoRelated: https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader
- lucb1e 1y agoBetter 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
- ipsum2 1y agoNo, I don't have Spotify is more memorable.
- amarant 1y agoAnd less descriptive. The title "I am cthulhu" is even more memorable, and illustrates why memorability shouldn't be the sole criteria. GP has a good point imo
- gchamonlive 1y agoDoes everything need to be as descriptive as possible? Something should be left for imagination or curiosity.
- lucb1e 1y agoI kinda like not having the HN homepage not be lorem ipsum but having some clue of what something is about "everything" obviously goes a bit far, but as a principle, I couldn't imagine it any other way
- gchamonlive 1y agoFor programming, sure. For blog posts, that certainly isn't applicable. It's art just as much as it's tech. If the title is outrageously bad, then it's bad art, or art that isn't in your taste. But we are out of the realm of the objectiveness here.
- al_borland 1y ago
- Flimm 1y agoI use https://song.link 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.
- egypturnash 1y agoThat seems to work a lot better. I tested with the last thing I bought off of Bandcamp, The Life of Clutchy Hopkins by Clutchy Hopkins: I Don't Have Spotify: https://idonthavespotify.sjdonado.com/?id=b3Blbi5zcG90aWZ5LmNvbS9hbGJ1bS8xZURPeGlTcXF4UzhqU2dEQ3NhQzM4 https://idonthavespotify.sjdonado.com/?id=b3Blbi5zcG90aWZ5Lm... "Not available on other platforms." odesli.co: https://album.link/s/1eDOxiSqqxS8jSgDCsaC38 https://album.link/s/1eDOxiSqqxS8jSgDCsaC38 - no less than eleven different links to stream, though about half of them didn't have anything when I clicked on them. And three links to buy it, too. I got similar results with my previous two purchases, clipping.'s Dead Channel Sky and Captain Ahab's The End of Irony. IDHS said "not available on other platforms" while odesli.co turned up close to a dozen links to stream each, and three places to buy them. Maybe IDHS works better if you're not a fiftysomething lady with hilariously obscure taste, I dunno?
- egypturnash 1y agoLet's try the least obscure thing I can think of: Taylor Swift's last album, The Tortured Poets Department. IDHS: https://idonthavespotify.sjdonado.com/?id=b3Blbi5zcG90aWZ5LmNvbS9hbGJ1bS8xTW80YVo4cGRqNkwxang4elN3Sm50 https://idonthavespotify.sjdonado.com/?id=b3Blbi5zcG90aWZ5Lm... - on Apple Music and SoundCloud. odesli: https://album.link/i/1736268193 https://album.link/i/1736268193 - 14 streaming links, 3 purchase. Including working links to Deezer and Soundcloud that IDHS didn't turn up despite saying those are the places you can start from.
- gompertz 1y agoWhy is Qobuz always missing from these sites? It has superior audio quality beyond all other options.
- hk1337 1y agoI 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.
- gingersnap 1y agoI 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)?
- apprentice7 1y agoSomeone please correct me if I am wrong, but I think iTunes doesn't put any DRM on the albums you buy from there.
- roelschroeven 1y agoOnce upon a time they did, but I've been buying DRM-free music from iTunes for a long time now. The songs might have a watermark though? I don't really think so, but even if they did, I don't really have a problem with that.
- greyface- 1y agohttps://bandcamp.com/ https://bandcamp.com/
- jedimastert 1y agoStrongly second BandCamp
- nine_k 1y ago...especially on certain Fridays, when they channel 100% of the sales revenue directly to the artists.
- greyface- 1y agoThe first Friday of every month, to be specific.
- saint_yossarian 1y agoThey started skipping some months. Check https://isitbandcampfriday.com/ https://isitbandcampfriday.com/ for the next one.
- teddyh 1y agoPreviously on HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42110877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42110877>
- dang 1y agoThanks! Macroexpanded: I Don't Have Spotify - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42110877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42110877 - Nov 2024 (371 comments)
- joduplessis 1y agoI didn't realise Spotify was a link sharing platform. Oh wait, it's not.
- drewg123 1y agoI 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
- barbs 1y agoYou could raise an issue here? https://github.com/sjdonado/idonthavespotify/issues https://github.com/sjdonado/idonthavespotify/issues
- RadiozRadioz 1y agoShe sends you the Google redirect links from the search page rather than the underlying YouTube URL? If she doesn't want to do the extra step of following the link through to find the real URL, there are web extensions that will resolve the Google tracking links for you.
- pjmlp 1y agoWhile the name is a bit click baity, I still keep buying good old CDs, or DRM free MP3s.
- alkh 1y agoIf 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
- tombot 1y agohttps://www.tunemymusic.com/ https://www.tunemymusic.com/ will do anything to anything
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- firefoxd 1y agoOk, I'm not in on the joke. What's going on here?
- donohoe 1y agoI 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/ https://donohoe.dev/mixtape/
- futhey 1y agoSmall UX thing: I would have loved to not had to inspect element to grab the placeholder text to test it out :)
- mococa 1y agoPlease add pirate MP3.
- butz 1y agoTook 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?
- NoPicklez 1y agoThe example placeholder needs to be a little darker to make it look more like an example. I agree, they could extend the sentence on the title screen to say something like "to start finding music titles across your favorite streaming services." I had no idea what the service was until I read the comments, I just assumed it was something to do with not liking Spotify
- whycome 1y agoDo you have spotify? I'm wondering if it's the people who don't have spotify who "lean" to a certain initial interpretation that is colored by previous experience (especially in having to utter the phrase to someone). If so, it make the naming kind of apt.
- NoPicklez 1y agoI do have Spotify, but I've never known Spotify to have more music than other streaming services apart from its infancy when there wasn't the level of competition as there is now. In fact I thought Apple music now had the greater number of songs in comparison.
- whycome 1y agoI don’t understand what “more music” (“more songs”) means in this context or why it’s relevant. Edit: I think you’re misinterpreting the use of this tool. It’s not to find tracks across your music services. It’s for when people share links from Spotify but you subscribe to a different streaming service. Spotify has the largest market share (and probably outsized in certain geographic areas) so being on a “minority” streamer requires something like this. You’re not entering an artist name or track. You’re inputting the link.
- dnst 1y agoI 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 https://github.com/vbackeberg/share-song-2
- outlore 1y agoIs 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
- holyshitsss 1y agoThis reminds me of similar discussions we've been having about this topic. The key challenge I see is implementation at scale.
- alanbernstein 1y agoCouldn't we have a music:// protocol or something, to be opened by the OS's preferred music app? Anything like that already exist?
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- treesknees 1y agoI’m not sure how that would work without a unique and agreed-upon shared identifier across platforms. There’s no equivalent to referencing a song using a URI.
- whstl 1y agoThere are already industry standard codes for songs, albums, performers, etc: ISWC, ISRC, IPI, IPN, ISNI. Spotify already use some of those, but I dunno if they expose via API or make it searchable.
- opan 1y agoDo people actually like that kind of thing? mailto links always do a thing I don't want and obscure the actual address I could otherwise copy/paste. I feel similarly about matrix.to links. In the worst case it does nothing or opens something the user didn't want to use.
- alanbernstein 1y agoThe behavior I'm imagining is: someone sends me a link to a song, provided by their music service of choice, which I can't use. I click the link, then my OS tries to open that resource in my preferred music player. I haven't thought about what happens if that doesn't work (not available on the service for example). You're probably right that it would end up being more clunky and broken. But I think a song is much closer to a resource (like a hyperlink to a website), than to a contact address (like a mailto link). This is actually a regular problem for me, and I solved it by backing up my messages, then using a script to scan them for music URLs, and create a playlist on my music service of choice. It felt like a pretty silly thing to create.
- hnpolicestate 1y agoWith music I gave up and just listen to soma fm. I donate $40 a year. Download wat I like if needed from YouTube illegally
- uberduper 1y agoResponding 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.
- kurtis_reed 1y agoOk
- qustrolabe 1y agoRegistration is free though
- whoaksed01234 1y agoNiceeeeee
- AutoDunkGPT 1y agowho asked
- wyclif 1y agoIt doesn't work, at least with Spotify playlists.
- mvdtnz 1y ago> Something went wrong, please try again later. What's it supposed to do?
- geekamongus 1y ago"Not available on other platforms." But it is...
- holyshitsss 1y ago[dead]
- xyz_opinion 1y agoI dont have Spotify either. I have self determination.
- dsamarin 1y agoI would also support this as a browser extension, possibly with an auto redirect!