tomahawk-resolvers

In a way, this reminds me of the (much more ambitious) system of resolvers [1] of the (now defunct) tomahawk player [0] The idea was you just give it the metadata and it "resolves" it into any service. I really like this idea. it kind of lives on in "playlist converters" like tunemymusic or soundiiz. but it is not the same as it being built into the player itself (like spotube albeit with a different more straightforward aim here) [0] https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk [1] https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk-resolvers

Building plugin-based web apps is the way to go. The HN crowd is so vehemently against any added features, that I always wished HN was a plugin based web app itself. Userscripts and extensions are less neat and powerful. I like audiogata. It is good for creating playlists from different sources. For me, what Spotify does not have, could be supplemented from other sources. This is also the way to go: The true universal music player. Two suggestions: - A lot faster way than adding tracks one by one by search, will be to accept a text format (or clipboard paste) of a list of URLs. IMO this is easy to implement. - A lot tricker, is to allow for simple text file in the format [Artist – Track] to be imported by resolving each line through a search. This is what the, now defunct, Tomahawk player [1] did. [1] https://github.com/tomahawk-player/to

There is a working resolver here: https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk-resolvers/tree/m... Mind you, it does require Tomahawk's latest nightlies / git version.

I'm also not completely familiar with tomahawk, although I have read quite a bit about it. Tomahawk is a UI that has a standard "music player" behaviour. The sources are plugged in (they're called resolvers[0]), so that the core remains more or less the same. AFAIU, mopidy acts a middle-man between sources (installed as plugins) and uis. It's more or less what playdar [1] (the ancestor of tomahawk) was, at least functionnally. [0] https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk-resolvers [1] http://www.playdar.org/