Comments on “Songlink 2.0
Markus Schuette@markus_schuette
Awesome platform, guys! Looking to implement something like this for my music blog http://hypelist.io - hit me up at music@hypelist.io!
Kurt Weiberth@kweiberth · Chief Architect, Songlink
@markus_schuette @hypelist Slick site over there at hypelist! It looks like a lot of the songs you have on there are SoundCloud. We are unsure if or when we'll be integrating SoundCloud with Songlink. Do you find a lot of the songs you post from SoundCloud are also available on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube?
Markus Schuette@markus_schuette
@kweiberth @hypelistmusic hmm I see. How come no Soundcloud yet? Yeah, a good a mount are available on Spotify and Youtube, but they usually source from SC. Any ideas?
Kurt Weiberth@kweiberth · Chief Architect, Songlink
@markus_schuette @hypelistmusic It's easier to match songs on Spotify and Apple Music and Google Play Music. We are supporting YouTube, which has proven to be much more difficult to find matches due to the unstructured nature of the videos/data. SoundCloud is going to be similar. I think we need to focus on improving our YouTube matches and then apply what w… See more
Markus Schuette@markus_schuette
@kweiberth @hypelistmusic Got it, thanks for explaining. My idea was to make the 'Source' button link to your Soundlink portal so the user can use the platform of their choice. Keep me posted on SoundCloud support.
Kurt Weiberth@kweiberth · Chief Architect, Songlink
@markus_schuette @hypelistmusic For sure. It would be a great integration. If the source is Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube or Google Play Music, you can easily create a Songlink URL. More info on this at https://github.com/kweiberth/son.... I'll definitely keep you posted on SoundCloud support.