@bram imho not really. It relies too much on a single centralised database, rather than an open standard.
With #SongLink you have a song.link url with a numerical identifier that you need to use to first use their platform to find the platform of your choice, rather than a universal URI can can directly be opened and understood by your preferred service.
So, if SongLink fails, your lookup fails.

This is exactly what happened to #SongWhip, which imho had nicer URLs and easier lookup methods and didn't require sign-up, and why now links like https://songwhip.com/freedom-call/metal-is-for-everyone that I used to use in my #MusicFiXatoListensTo or #NowPlaying posts, are now useless dead links.
Ideally we'd have a platform agnostic link like music://artist/song or music://artist/album/song that handles artists with the same name, multiple album releases, and various song versions well enough, and supports not only music but all sorts of media. Bonus points for typo resolution and canonical url redirects, and fallbacks for different platforms if your preferred media player doesn't have the track available.
@danirabbit

As a reminder, since Song Whip is gone, Odesli / Songlink is a helpful website that can give you an individualized link to a song or album so when you share it, folks can listen to it on their streaming platform of choice!

Very handy.

Here's the link: https://odesli.co/

#Music #SongLink #Odesli #SongWhip #FediTips #MastoTips

I haven't been able to use Songwhip for a while, it seems like some plugin is interfering loading the page but for my life I cannot understand which one. I disabled:
- Ghostery
- uBlock
- Firefox adv. antitracking

Any suggestion?

#Songwhip

So I was prepping to share a song on here, running it through Songwhip so that my trusted readers could pull this cool song on whatever music medium that you enjoy… and Songwhip no longer exists. I was able to use this neat tool exactly one time. Does anyone have a different avenue with which to distribute music this way?

Until this is rectified, I give you the new Frost* single: Life in the Wires Part 1

https://youtu.be/TIH8Zy728q0?si=TT-88tDb20v1ZkJz

#frost #songwhip #progrock #newmusic

#Songwhip is down because it was sold to #Sony! 😱

Which alternatives do you use?

Call me stubborn but I don’t want to create a user account.

We're Scheisse ist das denn bitte: #Sony hat #Songwhip gekauft und dicht gemacht. Was für Arschgeigen?!

Mit Songwhip könnte man Musiklinks erstellen die für alle gängigen Streamingplattformen funktionieren.

(Ich hätte an dieser Stelle gerne das Album "Ein fragiles System" und "Bipolar Feminin" beworben.)

Und darum liebe Kinder sollte man coole Infrastruktur lieber als Open Source veröffentlichen.