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slyv
URL shortener for music links that then redirects to user's preferred music service (saved for future) anyone?
afhof
Isn't that Google is becoming? Type in the title of a song and click "I'm feeling Lucky."
GotAnyMegadeth
Probably NSFW if you are into Goregrid or something...
vxNsr
Good point, I also like his idea at the end, though as a browser extension instead of a twitter client extension.
ryanjadhav
I built a chrome extension that helps with this problem. It doesn't let you store a preferred service, rather you throw in a song url to and it'll spit back a few urls pointing to that song on Rdio, Spotify, Last.fm, and Grooveshark. You can try it out here: http://goo.gl/jLocb
jka
I thought MusicBrainz had great potential in this area, as a common and open database of artists/albums/tracks - and Spotify used to have support in their API to search based on some of those.

http://forums.musicbrainz.org/viewtopic.php?id=3463

Ultimately unless someone uses MB and/or other data sources to create an aggregated 'music translation' service - whether it's entirely offline translation, translation-on-demand, or some kind of mix - I'm not sure how this is going to happen with so many proprietary platforms.

beatpanda
This is a big part of the reason why I like Grooveshark. It's totally beyond me why nobody ever mentions it in discussions about music services, it's easily the best thing around.
kalleboo
Because it's unlicensed and just waiting to be shut down. People who know about it try to keep it on a low profile so it doesn't get targeted.
hyperbovine
Last I heard they were getting sued for like $15 billion by one of the Big 5, guess the cat's out of the bag.
drivebyacct2
Web Intents, the Web equivalent of Android intents. It would certainly help to solve this issue.
rbrcurtis
Yeah, this is EXACTLY the problem web intents was designed to solve.
sanderversluys
I was also thinking of Web Intents. This problem is not unique to music services but all kind of web application and services. I <3 Intents!
pdufour
I worked / am working on something that Tyler discusses in his follow-up article.

It's called http://trackpile.com and it allows easy sharing from Spotify to Rdio, and vice versa.

Would love if you guys could check it out!