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by urbandw311er 1350 days ago
Nice start - I think there is ultimately some value in this approach, but currently seems quite limited in its functionality, for example I can only choose one song? This results in a very large set of results to wade through, many of which will not be helpful or relevant.

Personally I'd get far more value if I could chuck in 3-4 favourite songs and see which playlists contains all of them (or order by greatest number of matches first); this would allow me to more accurately match my tastes to discover a potentially new bunch of other songs I might like.

If there is a way to match against more songs, apologies! The post title implies there is, but the site seems to suggest it's limited to one song.

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Ditto, this is what I thought it was -- the title says "by songS they contain", not "by a song they contain".

I really want to see if anyone else has Left Hand Free and Pop Muzik on a playlist together, and if they've found any _other_ songs that contain eeny-meeny-miney-moe in the lyrics and made a playlist of them like I have...

(Here's another oddball one, if you're a puzzle type. Bring The Magic - Steve Wynn. So It Goes - Nick Lowe. Roadrunner Once - Jonathan Richman. Heavy Metal - Sammy Hagar.)

I have extremely niche playlists like this: male and female presenting singers shouting the same lyrics at the same time, songs with cheerleaders in the background, songs by two or more NYC area rappers about high seas piracy. For your list consider adding "Hot" by Liili in which the lyrics code switch Russian and English but do contain "eeny-meeny-money."
Thank you for the feedback!

It is currently limited to one song, but there is already an issue on github planning multiple song selection. Just haven't gotten around to it yet.

As for over-abundance of results, sorting by name length in ascending order should help at least somewhat, but the search approach is an open problem.

As an aside: on large screens there is also an option to choose a specific song by dragging it from the Spotify client.

brilliant idea. i already found a couple awesome playlists by repurposing google to be this tool

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22state+of+grace%22+%22I%27...