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Actually I use Rdio, Not Spotify, Your Link Is No Good To Me
- slyv 14y agoURL shortener for music links that then redirects to user's preferred music service (saved for future) anyone?
- afhof 14y agoIsn't that Google is becoming? Type in the title of a song and click "I'm feeling Lucky."
- GotAnyMegadeth 14y agoProbably NSFW if you are into Goregrid or something...
- vxNsr 14y agoGood point, I also like his idea at the end, though as a browser extension instead of a twitter client extension.
- ryanjadhav 14y agoI built a chrome extension that helps with this problem. It doesn't let you store a preferred service, rather you throw in a song url to and it'll spit back a few urls pointing to that song on Rdio, Spotify, Last.fm, and Grooveshark. You can try it out here: http://goo.gl/jLocb http://goo.gl/jLocb
- cleverjake 14y agoMore importantly - the follow up http://liisten.com/i-dont-use-the-same-music-service-as-you-can-we-still-be-friends-part-2 http://liisten.com/i-dont-use-the-same-music-service-as-you-...
- jka 14y agoI thought MusicBrainz had great potential in this area, as a common and open database of artists/albums/tracks - and Spotify used to have support in their API to search based on some of those. http://forums.musicbrainz.org/viewtopic.php?id=3463 http://forums.musicbrainz.org/viewtopic.php?id=3463 Ultimately unless someone uses MB and/or other data sources to create an aggregated 'music translation' service - whether it's entirely offline translation, translation-on-demand, or some kind of mix - I'm not sure how this is going to happen with so many proprietary platforms.
- simon_weber 14y agoThis is exactly the problem that http://toma.hk http://toma.hk and http://www.tomahawk-player.org http://www.tomahawk-player.org are trying to solve. Their approach: your library becomes (title, artist, album) tuples, and then songs are found at whatever provider you use when you want to listen. The devs are mostly ex-Amarok and everything is on GitHub: https://github.com/tomahawk-player https://github.com/tomahawk-player.
- beatpanda 14y agoThis is a big part of the reason why I like Grooveshark. It's totally beyond me why nobody ever mentions it in discussions about music services, it's easily the best thing around.
- kalleboo 14y agoBecause it's unlicensed and just waiting to be shut down. People who know about it try to keep it on a low profile so it doesn't get targeted.
- hyperbovine 14y agoLast I heard they were getting sued for like $15 billion by one of the Big 5, guess the cat's out of the bag.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoWeb Intents, the Web equivalent of Android intents. It would certainly help to solve this issue.
- rbrcurtis 14y agoYeah, this is EXACTLY the problem web intents was designed to solve.
- sanderversluys 14y agoI was also thinking of Web Intents. This problem is not unique to music services but all kind of web application and services. I <3 Intents!
- pdufour 14y agoI worked / am working on something that Tyler discusses in his follow-up article. It's called http://trackpile.com http://trackpile.com and it allows easy sharing from Spotify to Rdio, and vice versa. Would love if you guys could check it out!
- paromi 14y agothere are many free sites with music, i try to use them as long as their around , http://cloud-vibe.com http://cloud-vibe.com