I have been contemplating developing something like this as we have a streaming service for independent musicians built in to our HIVE game Rising Star. It would be fairy easy to spin this off as a separate entity and add playlists.
However the biggest issue is that we would not be able to include any mainstream artists so it would always be quite niche.
Have you played Rising Star yet? Created by musicians and featuring an in game radio stream where you can submit your music!
Rising Star The brand new Hive NFT game. Play for FREE now! That deserves a !BEER
Musicians - submit your mp3s to be played on the in-game radio.
Interesting. I'd never heard of Rising Star. I'm not a musician, but I'll check it out thanks. Looks interesting.
It's not actually a game for musicians but we include Hive musicians in the game.
I developed Atom Collector Records before which does actually let you build playlists for popular streaming services like SoundCloud & BandCamp but it's not the same as having the music on your own service where you are not at the mercy of the big companies.
Actually that is kind of what I was thinking about - the ability to build playlists from other services. I don't think any decentralised service can match the likes of Apple or Spotify in actually attracting big name musicians.
Lets say I'd been building my playlists for the past decade on a decentralised system, with the data on a blockchain.. Even if Apple or Spotify remove my accounts, the metadata (Name, Artist, Album) etc, is independent of Apple or Spotify. I could then plug it to Amazon, say, and still have the playlist be valid.
I'm not sure what the user experience would be like though as Spotify for example only allow 30 second song previews with their embedded player so you would still need to use their app. If there was a way to import playlists then it would be achievable but I am not sure that's possible on any of these services but I could be wrong.