I want to post about the songs that I am listening to, but in a way that everyone can open it regardless of what they are using. Is there a good way to do that? A website that generates links for the popular streaming platforms?

  • hatter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    6 months ago

    Song.link is the simplest I know of and seems to work pretty well. Just go to song.link/YOUR_TRACK_URL. For example

    https://song.link/https://music.apple.com/album/never-gonna-give-you-up-2022-remaster/1624945511?i=1624945512

    will take you to this page https://song.link/i/1624945512 with links to Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, YouTube and what not.

    Bonus tip: if you’re on macOS and use Velja there’s an option to automatically convert all copied music links to songlink.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    323·
    6 months ago

    Honestly, as much as I hate it, but YouTube seems to be the best service in that regard. Even small indy bands seem to have their songs on there.

      • hatter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        In Firefox there’s an option to copy links without site tracking. Kinda wish it was the default behaviour.

    • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      6 months ago

      In some cases it can be geoblocked or would be deleted with time if IP holders demand so. But that’s probably the case for most platforms. The pro-point for youtube is that it is embeddable in most social networks and website engines, so if you post it to your blog or chat it’d play within the page or app without coming to another resource.

      • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
        6·
        6 months ago

        The I permanent impermanent nature of YouTube and other host sites, such as photo bucket and forum reformats, has drastically changed how I comment. I try to type all the pertinent details instead of dropping a link alone, hoping to future-proof the info by giving readers the info required to use a search engine to find it if the link breaks

    • edric@lemm.ee
      3·
      6 months ago

      I think OP is asking for a vendor neutral application that allows the user to listen to the song on the platform of their choice, like Songlink as some suggested.

  • tobogganablaze@lemmus.orgEnglish
    91·
    6 months ago

    It should be a direct link to the music that can be played directly with no extra steps like selecting a streaming serivce. Youtube is probably the best option.

  • kevincox@lemmy.ml
    7·
    6 months ago

    If the song is able to be freely distributed share a magnet link for an mp3, opus or flac file.

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
    61·
    6 months ago

    If you post only links to streaming platforms then there is no way that every user can listen to your music, because that user would need his own contract with that streaming service that you have selected.

    For example, I do not have an account at any music streaming service.

    • Noodle07@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      Idk if you need an account to listen to a specific song linked from Spotify or the like, anyone knows for sure?

  • Eyedust@lemmy.world
    21·
    6 months ago

    Would be useful, but I can’t think of anything that would do this. A bot that scraped the chosen song’s links from popular streaming services would be pretty neat and, to my knowledge, possible. I’ve seen it done with stuff like Skyrim mods or MTG Card linking on Reddit.