I Don't Have Spotify

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mkhalil 12 November 2024
I know of a even more impressive website that will transfer playlists from Spotify (or 20 other platforms, including text files) to 20 other platforms or a text file. I will share the link, but don't hug it to death y'all. :)

https://app.tunemymusic.com/transfer

leddt 12 November 2024
I made a very simple chrome extension that automatically redirects you to your preferred music service when visiting another service. In my case I have it set to YouTube Music, so if I click a Spotify (or other) link in Slack, I'll be redirected to YouTube Music.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/music-link/gnhphofp...

askonomm 12 November 2024
I'd love to actually buy music and store it myself, as I've started noticing more and more that some of the songs I have on Spotify have started to disappear, but I find it very difficult to buy modern music anymore. Most gets released as singles, and as far as I know, to only streaming platforms. Is there a way to still buy the same kind of music that is on streaming platforms, and actually get the audio files?
pazimzadeh 12 November 2024
The youtube music matching didn't work for the first two songs I tried:

Two Words by Kanye West: https://open.spotify.com/track/62wtttQzoIA9HnNmGVd9Yq?si=b1b...

Went to Two Words by Milabel Ranque: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Y64cFG9dfYo

Never Let Me Down by Kanye West: https://open.spotify.com/track/34j4OxJxKznBs88cjSL2j9?si=7ec...

Went to Never Let me Down by Depeche Mode: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=snILjFUkk_A

Even though the correct album art appeared on the site.

Actually none of the songs I put it are working. Is this what it's supposed to do? Find songs with similar titles?

vzaliva 12 November 2024
I have to deal with spotify links sent to me often and this is great. The better link would be to the actual service page, not github repo:

https://idonthavespotify.donado.co/

It would be fantastic to have this as an extension for us, Firefox users. I hope someone makes one someday.

pivic 12 November 2024
I use this page to create a page with links to all kinds of music providers: https://odesli.co

Works per artist, album, or song.

Create a login to customise URLs.

I'm just a user; I don't have a dog in this race.

joking 12 November 2024
One of the best services I get from my Nas is the ability to save the music there and be able to stream to my phone. I prefer to buy some music and have it there than relying in any subscription service.
porridgeraisin 12 November 2024
When I used to maintain a discord music bot, it used to stream from YouTube. For Spotify urls to work though, I had to get YouTube search to work reliably. One trick which I found worked well was including the Spotify URL in the YouTube search along with the song name, artist name, etc. This helped quite a bit with picking out the "official" youtube video, since the official one often includes Spotify links in the video description, which YouTube search also matches against.
mey 12 November 2024
This service connects to a few more services, but you can't just paste in an existing URL. https://odesli.co/ it's more link tree type service but since you can search for songs and albums it makes it easy to find things.

Example https://song.link/i/1051394215

Kudos 11 November 2024
I built something very similar the last time I got laid off and needed something to do https://github.com/kudos/combine.fm
moffkalast 12 November 2024
I've never taken Spotify or any other music streaming service seriously. They are a joke for the same reason Netflix is, they only play limited licensed content so their selection inevitably drops and drops until everything you search ends with zero results. Obscure indie artists? Forget it.

Add average 4G reliability to that and you have a service that never has what you need, and if they do it never works when you need it (e.g. long car rides in the middle of nowhere). And then they expect you to pay for it or listen to ads too. Nothing beats a good ol' folder of mp3s. And 128GB of the average phone can store many an mp3.

frei 14 November 2024
The first song I tried mapped incorrectly. Even though there was a green verified checkmark!

> https://open.spotify.com/track/1Pfc1Qpj0s9vQumI0JvpBp

mapped to

> https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ogoeWS6CDbI

but it should have mapped to

> https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dfgKYWrRfoc

cglong 12 November 2024
Thank you for the submission! Should this be a Show HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
dailykoder 12 November 2024
Huh, that looks very interesting. A friend of mine made a streaming service back in the day where you could paste in youtube links, they got downloaded, added to a playlist and then you could listen to that together with friends on multiple computers.

I always wanted to rebuild that and adjust to my needs. Now this convert thing from the OP seems to be an interesting extension to that. Just paste in spotify links, grab the YT one, yt-dlp it and there you go. Ill put this in my favorites, thanks!

juliangmp 12 November 2024
Slightly off topic but does any one of the music streaming services actually not suck? Like I tried a bunch of them but each one made me quit in it's own unique way!

Am I alone on this?

sjdonado 11 November 2024
mfkp 12 November 2024
A similar service that I use frequently to generate song.link URLs for sharing: https://odesli.co/
bean-weevil 12 November 2024
It would be fantastic if this site were a pwa that supported the chrome api [1] that lets you share directly to it on android. I would make a pr but my company owns all my ip and getting an exception takes months :(

1: https://chodounsky.com/2019/03/24/progressive-web-applicatio...

joshdavham 12 November 2024
Nice work!

It got me thinking how useful something like an "I don't have instagram" app would be. Unfortunately I suspect it would be impossible to implement.

ibz 12 November 2024
I don't have Spotify, I have Navidrome. Self-hosted on a cheap old mini PC.
wmeredith 12 November 2024
I started using Tidal earlier this year, simply because they pay artists more (it's still basically a pittance, but it's better.)

If you share a song link using Tidal, it actually shares a landing page where the user can select from Tidal, Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon Music. It's really great.

excalibur 11 November 2024
Not seeing Pandora, apparently 46 million people still use that as of 2023
pjmlp 12 November 2024
Me neither, still buying CDs and MP3, making my own playlists, with music that will outlast me.
Touche 12 November 2024
I'm still mad that they killed Rdio because Spotify was "free". Will never use it.
toomuchtodo 12 November 2024
Is there a DOI equivalent for identifying music tracks?
fuzzfactor 18 hours ago
Could that be restated as "Spotify doesn't have me"?
jonesn11 14 November 2024
Spotify literally plays the same songs over and over...and creates features no one wants
pbiggar 12 November 2024
Love it! Even since Spotify CEO Daniel Ek's investment company invested $100m into weapons tech, we've been looking at how to move off his platform.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/spotify-military-industrial...

doubleorseven 12 November 2024
This is great. I don't have spotify but everyone i know has spotify.

I wish I could just share the spotify link to a WPA app using the Web Share API and have it share back the url for my preffered music streaming app.

I guess I can ask claude to do it for me and use the code here for the UI, but I can't find the license file

somishere 12 November 2024
higgins 12 November 2024
I run an ios shortcut to do the conversion when a friend messages a spotify link:

https://x.com/justinprojects/status/1708184379326144925?s=46

teddyh 12 November 2024
I don’t have Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Deezer, SoundCloud, or Tidal. Would it be too much to ask for a link to be simply converted to the text “Songname by Artist”?
seanvelasco 12 November 2024
this feels more like an art piece or statement, not an actual tool

what if i have a youtube link and i want to stream on spotify? what if i have an apple music link but want to play it on a linux device where only spotify works?

it's more likely that you discovered a song on youtube and wanted to add it to your spotify playlist, rather than browsing spotify and then deciding to listen on another platform.

someone should make a service like this, but make it universal for all platforms.

however, i found the ability of matching a spotify artist profile to the artist's platform profiles impressive.

dsalaj 12 November 2024
This failed completely after trying to search for songs that don't have a unique name. This seemingly just does a basic string search on other streaming platforms. Sad...
nipperkinfeet 12 November 2024
For me, it didn't work. The artists and tracks on almost all of the tracks I pasted were incorrect. I suppose it would only be compatible with mainstream music.
xyst 12 November 2024
Switch out alternative streaming services with torrent links or alternatives ways to listen to the content. And you would actually have something here.
mbesto 12 November 2024
You can create an iOS shortcut to convert Spotify to Apple Music as well. This is how my gf and I share (she has apple music and I have spotify)
_jcrossley 12 November 2024
I built a proof of concept for a VC-scale app, and something like this is one of the core features. I applied to YC S24 and didn't get an interview (SUPER understandably). If anyone wants to hear details, shoot me an email (in bio); this project's vaporware until I find the right partner.
HeavyStorm 12 November 2024
Omg I was planning to build this for ages! That's very good.
mfkp 12 November 2024
Doesn't appear to work for Youtube Music links...

"Something went wrong, please try again later"

samelawrence 12 November 2024
Bandcamp + iTunes Match is the sauce for folks in the Apple ecosystem.
justmarc 12 November 2024
Hear, hear! To more inclusive projects like this one.
notyourwork 12 November 2024
No support for Amazon Music is a bummer.
throwoutway 12 November 2024
I should create something simlar for Apple Music links

I like this idea

bni 12 November 2024
The EU should mandate that this gatekeeper (Spotify) make their links interoperable with other music streaming services.
impalallama 12 November 2024
no tidal support yet but looks very useful for one off uses
Razengan 12 November 2024
Me neither, never used Spotify. I do use Apple Music, YouTube and SoundCloud though.
_DeadFred_ 12 November 2024
Now that the app algorithms are horrible can we all go back to something like last.fm so I can discover new music?
joshagilend 13 November 2024
AI
grahamj 12 November 2024
This is great, thanks!

I left Spotify when they signed Rogan.

AdmiralAsshat 12 November 2024
> Tidal No No No

Well I guess I'll just go fuck myself, then.

gertlex 12 November 2024
This is a bit off-topic, but: am I just dim or could the README be a bit more informative? What it's for, who it's for, etc. (I'll give partial blame to me or github for the About section/link being there... it's offscreen by the start of the README, so I missed it)

(I also... don't use spotify... so had less-than-average context to guess the purpose of this project with.)