The Five Best Ways to Share Playlists
Sharing music with friends is a time-tested way to discover new bands, discuss your musical tastes with friends, and learn a little more about the bands you like. This week we’ll take a look at five different ways to send and share playlists at a party or just among friends, depending on your assignments.
There are many services out there just to make it easy to share playlists with friends at a party so that everyone has a chance to become a DJ or maybe just help you share your favorite mixes and songs with a friend who could use a little bit of that. something new to listen to. Earlier this week, we asked you what service you prefer . We will now go back to select the top five from this chain in no particular order:
Common Spotify Playlists
Spotify is already one of the most popular music services in the world and one of your favorites . It also has useful playlist sharing features. You or your friend can create a playlist filled with your own music or the music you discovered in Spotify’s huge music library, and you have the option to share that playlist directly with others by passing the playlist url or Spotify link, or you can open the gate and make the playlist public so everyone can follow it, subscribe to changes, or even add or remove their own songs to and from the playlist. Whether you’re throwing a party or throwing a party, this open shared playlist feature can be very helpful as anyone using Spotify who also follows this playlist can add their own songs to the mix, contribute to the overall vibe, and receive it’s their turn to play a little DJ. Whether you just want to share music with a friend, or create mixes for others to listen to regularly, you can create playlists that are locked but still shareable for people to listen to, add songs to your own Spotify accounts. , and transfer it without changing anything.
Those of you who have supported the Spotify nomination have pointed out the fact that while not entirely perfect, it is quite simple and easy to use, especially given the sheer number of people with Spotify accounts. It can be used by everyone, including free and premium Spotify users (although free users don’t get mobile), so you don’t need to be part of a paid club to create playlists and share music with friends. Read more in the nomination thread here .
8 tracks
8Tracks has been around for a long time, but it remains a great way to share playlists and discover new ones based on artist, mood, genre, whatever, or anything else you could tag or keyword search to. The service has recently been completely overhauled with a new focus on suggesting playlists based on what you’ve already listened to, and making searches easier and more transparent. Best of all, 8tracks is completely free both online and mobile, so you can take your music with you wherever you go. In fact, it is not easy editing playlists of other people for a party or something like that, but it’s definitely easier to create playlists, an easy search for music to add to your playlist, and then publish that playlist to go back and listen to at any time – or sharing this playlist with anyone who wants to listen on any device is very easy.
The strength of 8Tracks is that it doesn’t just support music from a single service that it uses as a back-end. You can upload music from your computer, use Soundcloud, or use 8Tracks’ own huge music library as the engine for your playlists. Once you create them, they can be played and transferred to any device with an Internet connection. If people really want to edit them, they can catch them, create their own playlist based on yours, and add their own tracks. They can then share it with you, or make it a master party playlist that they keep creating over time. It’s easy, free, and there is a ton of music to explore.
YouTube public playlists
Even though YouTube Music Key is a thing , many people don’t immediately associate YouTube with music. It’s a shame because you can search for any song you want to hear – whether it’s an old and rare song or some new hit that everyone is talking about – and find it on YouTube. It could be an official video or just a static soundtrack loading while music is playing. Anyway, YouTube makes it easy to create playlists for any type of video you find there, and while Music Key helps you find music and related artists, you can create playlists of your favorite songs, make them public or private, and even share them with everyone. the world by directly specifying the url of the playlist, posting it to your favorite social network, or even posting the playlist to a website. It works surprisingly well, and once your playlist is published and someone else has it, they can edit their version, share it with you, or play it on any device with YouTube – which is a lot.
Those of you who have nominated and supported YouTube playlist nomination have noted that YouTube is almost everywhere, from smart TVs to set-top boxes, mobile phones and tablets, so if you use YouTube for music playlists, you can definitely grab your tunes wherever. whatever. You wanna go. This means they are perfect for a party – you can pull out your phone and cast it to the nearest Bluetooth speaker or Wi-Fi receiver using Android Cast, or you can cast playlists to friends simply by posting a link or embedding it in your personal website, or blog. Read more in the nomination thread here .
Shared playlists Last.fm
Last.fm still exists, and while we haven’t heard much about the service, it’s still a great place to scrobble songs from other music services you use every day, and to create playlists from your favorite tracks that you hear on these other services. … In addition, Last.fm allows you to create playlists from music contained in any other services it supports, which means you can use one site to create dozens of playlists, which can then be made public or private and shared with friends at play at your leisure, light up at a party or social event. Best of all, shared playlists have the ability to buy tracks on them as well as stream them directly, so if you want to own the music you hear in someone else’s playlist, you can easily purchase it.
The chain of nominations for Last.fm is not the longest (seriously, it’s just an image of last.fm), so there aren’t many excuses for it. However, people have used last.fm for this very purpose for years. While it seems that fewer and fewer services are proudly touting the fact that they can scrobble on last.fm, it still has a ton of fans and heavy users, and the easy-to-create, shareable playlists are probably one. of the reasons. You can check his nominations thread here .
Playlist.net
Playlist.net is a service that is completely designed to enable people to create their own playlists and share them with other music lovers and then drag and drop them onto Spotify. The service runs on the back of Spotify to some extent as you have to create your Spotify playlist before you can add it to the service and share it, but it definitely makes it easier to discover new playlists and new music if you don’t have a group of friends. that actively share playlists with each other. Either way, Playlist.net makes it easy to publish your playlists for others to hear and follow, and you can find new and interesting playlists by genre, mood, or simply by keywords to search for an included artist or song. The site even has music reviews and charts so you can see what’s hot or trendy in different genres and categories, get popular playlists for different moods and activities (like running, exercising, or just relaxing), and even a playlist generator that will revive the situation. for you with automatic selection.
Those of you who nominated him praised him for making Spotify playlists very easy to learn and add to your account, and for using Spotify as an internal source given that so many people are already using Spotify. Spotify definitely makes it easy to create playlists and share them with friends, but discovering new ones from other people can be a little trickier and saves you the hassle. Read more in the nomination thread here .
Now that you’ve seen the top 5, it’s time to vote for the community favorite, Lifehacker:
Honorable mention this week concerns DJ51 , application, specially designed to create a group playlist and giving everyone the opportunity to become a DJ at a secular event or meeting. Everyone uses the app to add songs to a shared playlist based on their Spotify accounts. The app then creates a playlist of music for everyone based on common tastes and popular musicians. If someone leaves, their part of the equation leaves with them, and the balance shifts in favor of the remaining people. Then, when everyone is gone, the music “room” disappears, ready for the next social event. Check out his nominations thread here .
We also have to give credit to the old school mix cassettes and CDs , which have received good support in the nominations thread. After all, as you mentioned, giving your friends music as real-world mixes on media they now own means you don’t have to worry about your playlists disappearing when the service stops working or when someone else’s music is out. removed. due to copyright issues or something. Sometimes the best way to share music is old school. We couldn’t agree more .
Do you have anything to say about one of the applicants? Want to substantiate your personal favorite even if it wasn’t on the list? Remember, the Top 5 is based on your most popular nominations from the Call for Applicants thread earlier this week . Don’t just complain about the top 5, let us know which option you prefer and justify it in the discussions below.