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
- Map the playlists: Browse all the playlists on the map.
Happy baking, sharing and discovering!
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