playlists.dags.dev

Consumer and social

music playlist search

SHOW HN2022

295points
128comments
#144of 2,570 in 2022
Top 6%of 2022 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

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 HN
    • 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 HN
    • Thanks 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 HN
    • 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 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 HN
    • Thanks 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 HN
    • Cool 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 HN
    • Amazing! 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 HN
    • 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 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 HN
    • This 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 HN
    • I'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 HN
    • This 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

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