playlists.dags.dev
Consumer and social
music playlist search
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playlists.dags.dev
A site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain
playlists.dags.dev#spotify playlist search#find playlists by song#music discovery#playlist finder
How HN took it
16 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 21 critical, out of 62 comments about the project. Thread score -0.06.
Idea: 10 for, 9 againstExecution: 1 for, 8 againstDesign: 1 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for discovering music via playlists
From 3 comments
I have wished for something like this, so I tried it out, using _Beauty Beats_, by Beats Antique. I got one of your own playlists - what are the odds?! Works great, thank you!
icosian on HNLove it. This is one of the primary features that RDIO had that I miss in Spotify, because it allows for discovering songs, as in “if someone likes this song enough to add it to…
brent_noorda on HNThanks god, been waiting for this concept to be implemented in a better way
canadiantim on HN
Drag-and-drop from Spotify client is handy
From 1 comment
This is really nice. I especially like the feature that let's your drag a song from a UI into the app. Very handy. Vibin to a new playlist now.
nickstinemates on HN
Objections
Search limited to one song at a time
From 2 comments
Nice start - I think there is ultimately some value in this approach, but currently seems quite limited in its functionality, for example I can only choose one song? This results…
urbandw311er on HNLove it. This is one of the primary features that RDIO had that I miss in Spotify, because it allows for discovering songs, as in “if someone likes this song enough to add it to…
brent_noorda on HN
Index only about 18k playlists, so many songs not found
From 2 comments
Thanks for the feedback! Currently the database contains only ~18k playlists and ~1.4M tracks. So only the relationships between them are used in the app. Edit: theres even a…
NomadicDaggy on HNThanks for trying it out! The site only includes indexed playlists and tracks, which have to be updated semi-manually, so currently only 18k playlists can be found. I plan to…
NomadicDaggy on HN
Site slow under HN traffic with no loading indicator
From 2 comments
Nice idea. I'd recommend adding some kind of visual indicator when it's in a loading state - at first I thought it wasn't working but it was just slow to respond (probably…
joelennon on HNCool concept. The site seems to be succumbing to the HN effect. There should be some kind of loading indicator on the first search, it didn't seem to be doing anything but when I…
hahamrfunnyguy on HN
Requests
Search by multiple songs
From 3 comments
Nice start - I think there is ultimately some value in this approach, but currently seems quite limited in its functionality, for example I can only choose one song? This results…
urbandw311er on HNAmazing! Something I've been meaning to build myself and now I don't have to. I'd like to echo the need for multiple song search—my use case for this was good playlists in cafes…
brumm on HNLove it. This is one of the primary features that RDIO had that I miss in Spotify, because it allows for discovering songs, as in “if someone likes this song enough to add it to…
brent_noorda on HN
Autocomplete and search by track and artist
From 2 comments
This feedback is coming from someone that wants to discover new / unknown bands in specific genres. I have a playlist of new / unknown bands I've discovered over the years, but…
shtopointo on HNThis is very convenient, but it didn't work well for me on the first attempt. The song I used is called "Love", from Colour Haze. > Found 32646 tracks. Yikes. Adding the artist…
nsbk on HN
Larger playlist index
From 2 comments
Love it. This is one of the primary features that RDIO had that I miss in Spotify, because it allows for discovering songs, as in “if someone likes this song enough to add it to…
brent_noorda on HNI'd love to see a playlist of submitted songs that aren't part of your playlist scrape.
oedstero on HN
Questions
How the playlists were discovered and how the Spotify API is used
From 2 comments
Cool project! I maintain an archive of Spotify playlists, scraped daily via GitHub Actions: https://github.com/mackorone/spotify-playlist-archive. If you're willing to share, I'd…
mackorone on HNThis is neat! I built a similar service that basically uses song playlist co-occurrence to generate song recommendations for any given Spotify track, and have found some good…
hsur8192 on HN
Alternatives named
Chosic Spotify playlist search tool
From 1 comment
For that I regularly use this free service https://www.chosic.com/spotify-playlist-search-tool-by-song-or-artist/
fbn79 on HN
Volt.fm
From 1 comment
You can also use https://volt.fm for this. And it currently has 337,502 playlists indexed. Disclaimer: I've built this.
soheilpro on HN
Last.fm neighbours and Tastebuds
From 2 comments
Remember last.fm? If I remember correctly, it was able to show other profiles with similar music taste.
tuzemec on HN> Thinking this a little further, it provides the perfekt basis for a dating application. Music is a very personally representation of oneself and if you find someone who has the…
blfr on HN
1001tracklists
From 1 comment
I use 1001 tracklists for this - you can search by track and it will surface DJ sets where the song was played. https://www.1001tracklists.com/
lemax on HN