We lanceerden onlangs de webtool ‘pLLaylist’welke te vinden is op het speciale Lowlandsblog van nrc.next, waarmee jij als Lowlandsbezoeker je persoonlijke blokkenschema, die je op Lowlands.nl kan maken, in een handomdraai kunnen ‘bakken’ tot een afspeelbare playlist.
Interactief blokkenschema op Lowlands.nl Op Lowlands.nl kunnen festivalbezoekers voorafgaand aan het festival het blokkenschema bestuderen. Gebruikers kunnen optredens markeren als favoriet en deze exporteren als kalender-bestand voor diverse softare. Zo kunnen bezoekers de lijst op hun telefoon importeren. Ook komen de artiesten terug op het zogenaamde ‘Llowlife’ profiel van bezoekers, het online community netwerk van Lowlands.
Ruim 80% van de Lowlands muziekprogrammering aanwezig op Spotify De programmering van Lowlands bestaat naast theater, kunst, mode, films, comedy, literatuur uit veel muziek. Op de in afgelopen mei in Nederland geïntroduceerde van oorsprong Zweedse muziekdienst Spotifyzijn van de 172 Lowlands muziek acts zo’n 142 artiesten en bands met tracks terug te vinden. De playlist webservice Playlistify uit Amsterdam maakt gebruik van deze Spotify catalogus voor de ‘pLLaylist’-tool.
De persoonlijke ‘pLLaylist’ is een lijst met muziek van favoriete artiesten Via de tool welke te vinden is op http://nrcnext.playlistify.org kunnen Lowlands bezoekers hun gebruikersnaam van Lowlands.nl (hun ‘Llowlife’) invoeren. De tool haalt vervolgens de lijst met favoriete artiesten van de gebruiker op en zoekt op Spotify van alle artiesten een aantal willekeurige tracks. Tezamen vormen deze de ‘pLLaylist’.
De ‘pLLaylist’ is direct afspeelbaar via Spotify en Last.fm Via de tool kan de playlist direct worden geopend in Spotify. Spotify voorziet in cd-kwaliteit audiostream welke gebruikers, afhankelijk van het type abonnement, ook offline via hun computer, Android toestel of iPhone kunnen afspelen. Via Playlistify zelf kunnen gebruikers de playlist ook toevoegen aan de Britse muziekdienst Last.fm die abonnees ook de mogelijkheid biedt de playlist af te spelen. Via Amazon kunnen de tracks ook worden gekocht.
De ‘pLLaylist’ is eenvoudig te delen via sociale netwerken of blog/site Met een enkele klik kunnen gebruikers de ‘pLLaylist’ doorplaatsen als interactieve widget op Hyves of eigen blogs en sites. Ook kan de ‘pLLaylist’ worden toegevoegd aan profielpagina’s op Facebook. Daarmee komen andere vrienden die ook naar Lowlands gaan ook direct in de stemming.
Playlistify wants to become your number 1 playlist hub. That means we want to add as many import and export options for your playlist. We already have 10 import options. And we offer to export playlists into Spotify, Youtube, Embed widget, Facebook app…..
Read more below the lovvvvv:
Today we’ve added a new export option: the possibility to export any playlist from the Playlistify Directory to your Last.fm library. Which is a cool thing because than you can use Last.fm to play the playlist in High Quality. There is one catch though. In order to actually play the playlist through Last.fm, you have to be a Last.fm subscriber, which I recommend you to be any how. Furthermore the playlist should contain at least 45 playable tracks from 15 different artists.
So,… How to add them epic playlists to your Last.fm library for play & explore purposes?
Well, just click the new ‘Open in Last.fm’ button you can find on any playlist page, which will open a new window to guide you through the 2-clicks process of authorizing and adding the playlist!
Last week I’ve implemented some RSS feeds for you. From now on it is very easy to follow an artist you like or tag you like. Every time a new playlist is uploaded with that artist or tag, it will appear in the feed. (By the way, if you don’t know what feeds are, check out this video) Just click the button you see at dedicated artist- or tag-pages:
Subscribe to the RSS-feed(s) in your favourite feedreader, iGoogle, Netvibes, make a widget out of it, whatever. Heck, you can even make a Twitterfeed bot out of it!
Proud to have pushed this most wanted feature live: Similar playlists. From now on you can find a list of similar playlists to the one your looking at.
Check out this image for an impression:
It seems so simple.“Playlist A looks like playlist C, so they are similar, just list them dude.”
I managed to calculate similar playlists for all the playlists in the Playlistify Directory. And, if all goes well, all fresh baked playlists will also immediately have a list of similar playlists. For you this is yet another epic reason for using Playlistify, after introducing the Twitter lists feature last week.
Now you can instantly browse and play other similar playlists to the one you baked!
Feel free to share this major development (in a tiny square box :D) with your friends and followers!
A few days ago, we added the functionality to convert playlists into Twitter Lists. Now you can convert your iTunes Library or playlist, Last.fm data, Youtube playlists, Spotify playlists and We are Hunted, Soundcloud, Rhapsody, Winamp and XSPF playlists and Copy-Paste playlist texts into Twitter List and by doing so they can start following the whereabouts and adventures of bands and musicians you listen to.
From playlist to Twitter List Whenever you bake a playlist, their curation will be added to The Playlistify Directory. From here you and your friends can connect to Twitter and add the available artists’ and bands’ offical Twitter accounts as a List to your Twitter account. By the way, the playlist page itself also has a tweetbox preview with the latest tweets.
Twitter @Anywhere also implemented Next to adding the complete playlist as a list on Twitter, you can also decide to only follow some of the artists. This feature is possible via @Anywhere, Twitter’s new feature to add Twitter to any site. We show the Twitter hovercards which enable you to quickly follow one or more artists, just hover over the artists’ boxes on the left bottom of each playlist page.
Freebase and a collaborative spreadsheet are the sources for the bands’ and artists’ official Twitter accounts Freebase is a large collaborative knowledge base. Playlistify uses the information available on Freebase to enrich the playlists with the official Twitter accounts. Next to supplying these Twitter accounts, Playlistify also retrieves Facebook, Myspace and official webpages via Freebase. Whenever available these are also listed on the playlist pages. In the future we are looking into which data we can commit back to the Freebase project too. If you have ideas on this I’d be happy to hear!
Furthermore the collobarotive Google Spreadsheet ‘Artist/Bands on Twitter’ managed by @Gcn1 is also a source for enriching the Playlistify Database. Great initiative!
From the 20,000 artists currently in the Playlistify Database about 5% has a Twitter account synced.
Other new cool things we do for and with your playlists
The 10th import source has been added: bake playlists from Rhapsody playlists.
Playlistify Anything bookmarklet released: select a text on a webpage containing a playlist, click the bookmarklet and bake it right away.
Embed playlists on sites, network or blog: Every playlist in the Playlistify Directory can now be embedded as an interactive widget. Just hit the <>Embed button
As of today you can turn any playlist* content you find on the web into a interactive playlist which you open in Spotify and other players, with the ‘Playlistify Anything’-bookmarklet.
Check out this 1 minute demo of the Playlistify anything bookmarklet:
Here is how it works once you have installed the bookmarklet:
Select the playlist text you want to have converted (from anywhere on the web)
Click the Playlistify It! bookmarklet in your bookmarkbar
Instantly get an interactive, embed-able, playable, Spotifyable playlist
* Update: Spotify is now available in The Netherlands
I don’t know how to tell how delightfull I was when I read the news today that finally Spotify is coming to The Netherlands. And soon too! In only two weeks time, on May 18th 2010 already. So fellow Dutchmen: forget about the workarounds, and be happy, be very very happy!
Once you have a startup you suddenly see a conference from a different side. The startup side. In my case it mend not seeing any of the great keynotes, but instead meeting all kinds of kind people, people with determination, passion and open minds. Ok! Nice people, smart applications, cool webservices, it was all at The Next Web .
Thanks again Patrick for showing the 1 minute pitch contest video on day 1:
Thank you all attendees and jury for getting me do my pitch presentation. I’ve uploaded it on Slideshare but it hasn’t that much text in it:
As of today you can turn any playlist* content you find on the web into a interactive playlist which you open in Spotify and other players, with the ‘Playlistify Anything’-bookmarklet. 
