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Couldn't we have a music:// protocol or something, to be opened by the OS's preferred music app? Anything like that already exist?
by alanbernstein 1y ago
Couldn'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.
- whycome 1y agoIf i open a .mp3 file on my computer, it will open my local preferred audio player. It could have the same functionality as treating the resource as a 'file'