The Eternal Playlist

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The beat goes on and on and on...

Welcome to The Eternal Playlist! This community is for sharing our love for music of all types. Here's how you can join in:

Post what you're listening to for others to enjoy.
Discover new tracks and artists shared by others.

This community uses @FreeThePlaylistBot@walledgarden.xyz to post youtube links when music is shared from most paid services.

If you don't want to see these posts simply block the bot account. If you're looking for the bot posts and can't find them you may need to enable "Show Bot Accounts" on your profile, or click the profile link above so your account/instance is aware of it.

Basic Rules:

No harassment. Personal attacks for things like the type of music being posted will not be tolerated.
Don't be a downer. Please remember music tastes are very personal. Criticism and negative opinions of music are fine but shouldn't be the majority of your interactions here. Try to contribute what you like rather than being negative about what someone else posted.

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FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online

Introducing FreeThePlaylistBot! (crazypeople.online)

submitted 1 week 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 3 points 1 week ago (2 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 1 points 3 days 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 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.