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Ask HN: Is there a music library app that sits on top of streaming services?

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I want to be able to let others in my office see the music everyone is listening to, or has listened to, share albums and have a communal library. But I want the library to be distinct from something like Spotify, but would allow someone to browse and play using their own account. This is not a central jukebox, just a central library.

Is there anything out there like that? A sort of shared music library app?

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Here is that exact solution I wrote for my house:

https://github.com/prettydiff/mp3-master-list

It creates a HTML playlist not from streaming media but from stored media on my home media server. I have expanded it to also support movies and television shows. It also includes an audio/video player to play the media directly in the browser, which bypasses all manners of restrictions imposed by iPhone.

npm run build

node c:\path\mp3-master-list\js\index.js “c:\my-music-path”

I think the closest thing I'm aware of is last.fm.

Based on some light surfing, it appears there are two less commercial alternatives: ListenBrainz and libre.fm (the hosted version of GNU FM). An interested reader could peruse https://github.com/topics/scrobbler to find even more projects

- https://listenbrainz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

- https://libre.fm/popular-page.php and https://github.com/foocorp/gnu-fm which is shown as archived. Related to that, while digging into libre.fm I found https://github.com/foocorp/hacienda#why-now which claims that last.fm federates, but I wasn't able to find any further references to that

Sounds like a self hosted last.fm but with access delegation for the streaming services?

iTunes used to do this, not sure if it still does. It would use Bonjour to make everyone’s libraries available on the network, so people could play tracks from other libraries on the local network.

Plex might do this as well. It has music libraries and management, and features for having friends, who is watching/listening to what, and sharing libraries. I’d assume you could have one central library that everyone friends and plays from.

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