How should I link to music so that anyone can open it?
How should I link to music so that anyone can open it?
I want to post about the songs that I am listening to, but in a way that everyone can open it regardless of what they are using. Is there a good way to do that? A website that generates links for the popular streaming platforms?
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Honestly, as much as I hate it, but YouTube seems to be the best service in that regard. Even small indy bands seem to have their songs on there.
If link to YouTube it’s best to delete the trackers from the url by deleting the ? and everything after it
In Firefox there's an option to copy links without site tracking. Kinda wish it was the default behaviour.
In some cases it can be geoblocked or would be deleted with time if IP holders demand so. But that's probably the case for most platforms. The pro-point for youtube is that it is embeddable in most social networks and website engines, so if you post it to your blog or chat it'd play within the page or app without coming to another resource.
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I permanentimpermanent nature of YouTube and other host sites, such as photo bucket and forum reformats, has drastically changed how I comment. I try to type all the pertinent details instead of dropping a link alone, hoping to future-proof the info by giving readers the info required to use a search engine to find it if the link breaksClever. Didn't thought about that.
Corrected a type that flips the meaning, though I'm guessing people identified it. "impermanent"
I think OP is asking for a vendor neutral application that allows the user to listen to the song on the platform of their choice, like Songlink as some suggested.