Play button

[ThreeDeeJay]

Is your feature request related to a problem, or particular use cases? Please describe. The current Search button is great to find a track on different apps, but I only want to use a single music player while still having the option to search the track on other apps.

Describe the solution you'd like It would be great to have a Play button, dedicated for playing the track in Spotify/Musicolet/etc, and make the search just show different apps that support searching via text, like YouTube for music videos.

Additional info If the Last.fm API provides Youtube/Spotify/etc links like the ones found in the track page, it would be nice to have them as individual buttons like Redomi or even provide it the link in case song.link has more services than last.fm. 👀👌

[kawaiiDango]

The Last.fm API does not provide such links. The play button just launches the play from search intent. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/MediaStore#INTENT_ACTION_MEDIA_PLAY_FROM_SEARCH

[ThreeDeeJay]

Oh dang, you're right. It only provides the MusicBrainz ID. I've found a couple alternatives, though each has pros and cons.

For streaming services:

• Scrape the links under "Play this track" in the last.fm track page
• Song.Link could be used directly if PS can somehow find the track in at least one of its supported platforms (like the method above), since MusicBrainz ID sadly isn't supported or even artist/title search but this might have better YouTube links than Last.fm's
• ACRCloud can use Artist + Title to get links from several streaming sites, but apparently that requires OAuth so it might be harder than even an API token to implement
• Spotify Web API might be useful to get the track URL but getting the token is kinda tedious. I found a script that gets the spotify URL from the last playing track, so perhaps it could be modified to do the same for any track or service.
• Fetching URLs directly from MusicBrainz via ID (e.g. https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/url/bd2152b0-7fe8-46f6-b0fb-3772bfca6d4f returns https://open.spotify.com/artist/3sPiEqLcANa5kAp5RnEHNq, but apparently that's only for artists and not all are available.)

For a local file button:

• Querying the Android MediaStore (unless the file is already known) and pass the the content to a media player (it might be useful to remember what app a song was scrobbled from)

So ideally, it would just show the button for tracks found in a source (streaming or local).