Play button

[ThreeDeeJay]

Is your feature request related to a problem, or particular use cases? Please describe.
The current Search button is great to find a track on different apps, but I only want to use a single music player while still having the option to search the track on other apps.

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be great to have a Play button, dedicated for playing the track in Spotify/Musicolet/etc, and make the search just show different apps that support searching via text, like YouTube for music videos.

Additional info
If the Last.fm API provides Youtube/Spotify/etc links like the ones found in the track page, it would be nice to have them as individual buttons like Redomi or even provide it the link in case song.link has more services than last.fm. 👀👌

[kawaiiDango]

The Last.fm API does not provide such links. The play button just launches the play from search intent. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/MediaStore#INTENT_ACTION_MEDIA_PLAY_FROM_SEARCH

[ThreeDeeJay]

Oh dang, you're right. It only provides the MusicBrainz ID.
I've found a couple alternatives, though each has pros and cons.

For streaming services:

• Scrape the links under "Play this track" in the last.fm track page
• Song.Link could be used directly if PS can somehow find the track in at least one of its supported platforms (like the method above), since MusicBrainz ID sadly isn't supported or even artist/title search but this might have better YouTube links than Last.fm's
• ACRCloud can use Artist + Title to get links from several streaming sites, but apparently that requires OAuth so it might be harder than even an API token to implement
• Spotify Web API might be useful to get the track URL but getting the token is kinda tedious. I found a script that gets the spotify URL from the last playing track, so perhaps it could be modified to do the same for any track or service.
• Fetching URLs directly from MusicBrainz via ID (e.g. https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/url/bd2152b0-7fe8-46f6-b0fb-3772bfca6d4f returns https://open.spotify.com/artist/3sPiEqLcANa5kAp5RnEHNq, but apparently that's only for artists and not all are available.)

For a local file button:

• Querying the Android MediaStore (unless the file is already known) and pass the the content to a media player (it might be useful to remember what app a song was scrobbled from)

So ideally, it would just show the button for tracks found in a source (streaming or local).

[catuhana]

Last.fm's track.getInfo returns a MusicBrainz mbid for recordings. And relations added to that recording can be fetched from https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/recording/{mbid}?fmt=json&inc=url-rels. The only issue is Last.fm doesn't always return the recording mbid value, and not all recordings on MusicBrainz has relations added.

[ThreeDeeJay]

@catuhana Then assuming Pano Scrobbler can get the work ID from the scrobbled track, it could instead lookup all of its recordings. Sadly it's limited to 100, but we can make multiple calls with +100 offsets because in this case, the jackpot was in result # 170/422:

• https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/recording?work=41c94a08-a551-3c86-bb17-d9a52e3a618b&fmt=json&inc=url-rels&limit=100
• https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/recording?work=41c94a08-a551-3c86-bb17-d9a52e3a618b&fmt=json&inc=url-rels&limit=100&offset=100

Though I'm still trying to figure out how to filter out cover artists because in the first call there's a Youtube link to a Cello cover. And maybe even just make it return only recordings with URL resources to reduce bandwidth/calls.

By the way, last.fm MBIDs aren't reliable: if you track.getInfo on that song, the artist's MBID is 420ca290-76c5-41af-999e-564d7c71f1a7 (character voiced by Itano Tomomi) instead of 0383dadf-2a4e-4d10-a46a-e9e041da8eb3 (UK rock group). Not to mention, last.fm's track.getInfo recording MBID ecfa6746-7bc4-4088-ace6-d209477bd63f doesn't have an associated URL either.

[catuhana]

By the way, last.fm MBIDs aren't reliable: if you track.getInfo on that song, the artist's MBID is 420ca290-76c5-41af-999e-564d7c71f1a7 (character voiced by Itano Tomomi) instead of 0383dadf-2a4e-4d10-a46a-e9e041da8eb3 (UK rock group).

I have noticed that. I think this can be checked with the local artist name to see if it's the expected artist/track or not.

For the last point, I have already said that not all songs on MusicBrainz have relations added. There's nothing we can do about that, other than adding relations ourselves, which is the purpose of MusicBrainz.

[ThreeDeeJay]

@catuhana Since excluding recordings without URLs apparently isn't possible using the API, I guess the best alternative we have is just making multiple offset calls (if even needed, though most songs don't).

On the bright side, I found a way to include the performing artist, so PS could also exclude the ones that don't match the scrobbled track's artist so we don't get those pesky covers
https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/recording?work=41c94a08-a551-3c86-bb17-d9a52e3a618b&fmt=json&inc=artist-credits+url-rels&limit=100&offset=0

https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/recording?work=41c94a08-a551-3c86-bb17-d9a52e3a618b&fmt=json&inc=artist-credits+url-rels&limit=100&offset=100

@kawaiiDango Any thoughts? 👀

[ThreeDeeJay]

PS: Once it gets a URL like https://open.spotify.com/track/2OBofMJx94NryV2SK8p8Zf, it could use it to fetch streaming links from other services, like this:
https://api.song.link/v1-alpha.1/links?url=spotify:track:2OBofMJx94NryV2SK8p8Zf

"linksByPlatform": {
  "amazonMusic": {
    "country": "US",
    "url": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0157E3W76?trackAsin=B0157E47K2",
    "entityUniqueId": "AMAZON_SONG::B0157E47K2"
  },
  "amazonStore": {
    "country": "US",
    "url": "https://amazon.com/dp/B0157E47K2",
    "entityUniqueId": "AMAZON_SONG::B0157E47K2"
  },
  "audiomack": {
    "country": "US",
    "url": "https://audiomack.com/song/bianca-martins-3/bohemian-rhapsody",
    "entityUniqueId": "AUDIOMACK_SONG::12851704"
  },
  "audius": {
    "country": "US",
    "url": "https://audius.co/tracks/2AWP1",
    "entityUniqueId": "AUDIUS_SONG::2AWP1"
  },
  "anghami": {
    "country": "US",
    "url": "https://play.anghami.com/song/42332997?refer=linktree",
    "entityUniqueId": "ANGHAMI_SONG::42332997"
  },
  "boomplay": {
    "country": "US",
    "url": "https://www.boomplay.com/songs/2850851",
    "entityUniqueId": "BOOMPLAY_SONG::2850851"
  },
  "deezer": {
    "country": "US",
    "url": "https://www.deezer.com/track/568115892",
    "entityUniqueId": "DEEZER_SONG::568115892"
  },
  "napster": {
    "country": "US",
    "url": "https://play.napster.com/track/tra.593001532",
    "entityUniqueId": "NAPSTER_SONG::tra.593001532"
  },
  "pandora": {
    "country": "US",
    "url": "https://www.pandora.com/TR:6933254",
    "entityUniqueId": "PANDORA_SONG::TR:6933254"
  },
  "soundcloud": {
    "country": "US",
    "url": "https://soundcloud.com/queen-69312/bohemian-rhapsody-remastered-1",
    "entityUniqueId": "SOUNDCLOUD_SONG::253166273"
  },
  "tidal": {
    "country": "US",
    "url": "https://listen.tidal.com/track/36737274",
    "entityUniqueId": "TIDAL_SONG::36737274"
  },
  "yandex": {
    "country": "RU",
    "url": "https://music.yandex.ru/track/1710808",
    "entityUniqueId": "YANDEX_SONG::1710808"
  },
  "youtube": {
    "country": "US",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ",
    "entityUniqueId": "YOUTUBE_VIDEO::fJ9rUzIMcZQ"
  },
  "youtubeMusic": {
    "country": "US",
    "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ",
    "entityUniqueId": "YOUTUBE_VIDEO::fJ9rUzIMcZQ"
  },
  "spotify": {
    "country": "US",
    "url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/2OBofMJx94NryV2SK8p8Zf",
    "nativeAppUriDesktop": "spotify:track:2OBofMJx94NryV2SK8p8Zf",
    "entityUniqueId": "SPOTIFY_SONG::2OBofMJx94NryV2SK8p8Zf"
  }
}