Cool project! I have never been very satisfied with the existing services for collaborating on playlists.
I think the experience could be improved if you branched beyond YouTube for the media. I search "jim-e stack" and see multiple non-song videos (in fact 3/4 are not songs). One idea might be to use a service like https://odesli.co (formerly song.link) to filter to real music tracks people are familiar with on their streaming platforms. Their API returns links to Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, etc for a given music entity (e.g. song, album). Furthermore, integrating with Odesli would offer a path towards allowing users to drop Spotify / Apple Music URLs directly from their respective apps into the jukebox, which I think would be my ideal experience.
My $0.02. Thanks for sharing!
THANK YOU FOR THE REC TO ODESLI!
Tbh I should have done an Ask HN. I tried googling and using the AI to find some song API which could replace youtube and nothing came up.
No problem! You might also consider the iTunes Search API [1] to power your search functionality e.g.
[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Au...