Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world JetpackJackson @feddit.de 12 mo. ago

FOSS alternative to... Sending Spotify links?

This is probably a dumb question but what is a better way to send a link to a song to friends without using Spotify? I don't use Spotify anymore so I don't like going back to that website just to copy a song link so people could hear it. I know I could send something like a YouTube link but I'm trying to degoogle so I wanted to see if there was an alternative? Can you send songs as last.fm links? Idk I just randomly thought about this and wanted to ask if I'm being weird or something Thanks in advance

(Edited to fix typo)

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What about this? https://songwhip.com/

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- Cool! I didn't know about this. Thanks for the recommendation.
- That's perfect! Thank you so much!
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- I wish I could but I don't have one :( I have no money and no knowledge of where to search for a good guide to start
  
  Don't listen to these guys, there's a really easy solution:
  
  Set you voice mail greeting to the song you want to share
  
  Share your phone number with your group or post it online to the folks you want to share the song with
  
  Don't answer your phone for a few days
  
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  There's a self-hosting Community here: !selfhosted@lemmy.world
  
  But for a pretty easy and low cost way to get started you can't go wrong with yunohost - it has lots of music server apps such as funkwhale, amapache etc.
Just send the mp3 file.
- this is the only correct answer
I know I'm middle aged but ... MP3s? A few megabytes isn't that much these days.
- I haven't touched an MP3 file for years. Everything's streamed.
  
  I still touch MP3 because it is compact and we need everything to be stored locally.
- I just didn't want to look weird/sus plus mp3s don't always do a preview thing in discord (I know, I'm trying to switch to matrix) so sometimes it makes you download the file But yeah I guess I can just send the file
Some alternative clients of Apple Music I use use the API of this to copy “universal” song/album links. It also has functions as a music search engine so maybe it can be useful to you. It’s not FOSS and its privacy policy could be better though. https://odesli.co/
- That looks interesting!
I'm curious about this too, but more for for sharing long, self-made playlists. A single song is not too bad to send or find on YouTube but a playlist is difficult
Maybe piped?
Find it on Piped or some other YouTube front end that isn't associated with Google aside from allowing you to watch the videos uploaded to YT.
I'm confused, can you not just search "Blur Song 2 spotify" (for example) in your browser and copy the link that comes up without ever actually clicking it or using Spotify? I don't use Spotify either but sometimes want to show my friends songs and I know they won't listen unless it's a Spotify link so I do this.

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