The Eternal Playlist

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Welcome to The Eternal Playlist

Hey there, music lover! Welcome to The Eternal Playlist, where we celebrate all kinds of music together. Jump right in by:

Sharing whatever you're currently jamming to
Discovering awesome new tracks and artists from fellow music enthusiasts

Please Note:

@FreeThePlaylistBot@walledgarden.xyz replies to posts containing links to streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music with the closest match it can find on YouTube. Hopefully this makes sharing and listening to music as convenient as possible for everyone.

Quick heads up: If you'd rather not see these bot posts, just block the bot account. If you can't find the bot posts and want to see them, make sure "Show Bot Accounts" is enabled in your profile settings, and click the profile link above to make sure your instance has discovered the bot account.

Community Guidelines:

Keep it friendly: No harassment or personal attacks over music taste (or anything else). We're all here to have a good time!
Stay positive: Music is personal, and that's what makes it beautiful! Constructive discussion is totally fine, but let's focus on sharing the music we love rather than tearing down what others enjoy.

Let's make this a fun, welcoming space where everyone feels comfortable sharing their musical discoveries!

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Introducing FreeThePlaylistBot! (crazypeople.online)

submitted 4 weeks ago by FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online to c/eternalplaylist@crazypeople.online

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Hey everyone! We're launching a new community bot to help make music more accessible. When someone shares a link from a paid streaming service, @FreeThePlaylistBot@walledgarden.xyz will automatically reply with YouTube links so everyone can listen along, regardless of what subscriptions they have.

What to expect:

Automatic YouTube alternatives for shared music links
The bot works best when your posts include the artist and song title, as it uses that information as a fallback to find matches
This is a beta test - the bot may only be available sporadically while we're testing
Expect some quirks and hiccups as we work out the kinks
Goal is full-time deployment once we've ironed out any issues

Thanks for your patience as we test this out! Let us know if you run into any problems or have suggestions. Here's to keeping the music flowing for everyone!

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[–] FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Doing some testing on a new version of the bot that I think has solved a number of issues the last build had.

Notable changes:

Bot should no longer reply to posts that were already serving youtube links
Better handling of paid service links when they use unexpected formats for more reliable song matching
Less dependent on data from the post title to match songs accurately
Bot can recognize and reply to more types of paid service links

The bot should still be considered a beta test and may come and go without warning while changes are being implemented.

[–] FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This build of the bot is now running full time-ish since testing has gone pretty well. I don't have it configured to automatically restart itself if it crashes or if the server reboots yet. Even though it's running from our testing instance I don't want it to create a situation where it boot loops the server if something new/unexpected comes up. If you happen to notice it's down for an extended time or otherwise acting up please DM me so I can take a look.

[–] FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Update to this-

The extended running introduced a new bug that caused the bot to start double posting. I believe it has to do with how our Lemmy instances are hosted so ~~I'll need to run some things by our host before enabling it again~~.

Change of plans. Going to try something else first.