Show HN: Minotaur – Streaming music using Spotify data and YouTube audio

I was a huge fan of Rdio back in the day before it got bought by Pandora and shut down in 2015 (ish?). I tried all the other streaming services, literally, and could tell you why I had a problem with all of them. None of them lived up to Rdio in my mind, and so I had the idea back then to combine artist and album and song data from Spotify, Discogs and LastFM with the YouTube API and make my own streaming service! [edit: Spotify is now a lot better, but it wasn't great back in 2015-16 in my opinion]

When you search for a song on Minotaur, it first searches our elasticsearch cluster, then if it can't find what you're looking for, it does a search on Spotify or Discogs or LastFM. Then if you click on a result it quickly pulls in that piece of data, then caches the rest of the artists info in our datastores, for quick retrieval later.

Once you play a song, my "algorithm" searches for the best version of that song it can find on YouTube, then caches that as well. It works pretty well most of the time, but occasionally a crappy version comes through. If so, you can flag the track and paste a YouTube link to a better version.

Let me know what you think.