Ask HN: Are there any music API's to create your own streaming service?

1 points by notdarkyet 3 years ago | 1 comment

Are there any API's to create your own streaming service without making a deal with Universal or another studio and hosting yourself?

https://developer.amazon.com/docs/music/API_browse_overview.html

In the API docs above, a user can login with an amazon account and MUST conform to the Amazons music player settings. This would also require an Amazon music subscription.

Ideally, users would subscribe through a created service and then behind the scenes the service accesses the music streaming library, not requiring an existing music service subscription. It would be nice as well to have access to high fidelity streams like those available on Qobuz or Tidal.

Do any of these exist or is this pretty much not possible in this industry.

Thanks ;)

PaulHoule 3 years ago |

If you want to share music for free with people in the US in 2022 I think your best bet is going to be sharing links to YouTube.

Somehow YouTube has an agreement with most music labels that they can host music supported by advertising in some geographies. I get reports from people outside the US that these links don't work but I am being deliberately vague here because even though I know the links don't work in some other countries, there might be some countries they work in.

There are streaming media delivery CDNs, I know a little about

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...

which I think could be adapted for music. In that case you need to pay to store the files and pay for bandwidth, of course you will need to pay the copyright owners too. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_ain%27t_no_such_thing_as...