Re:Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR
by kelnos on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @02:34PM
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> Just as an example, if I wanted to get a list of every song I liked on Spotify and import it into Apple Music, how would that even work? The songId of Spotify is undoubtedly different than the one Apple uses.
Artist + Song Title (+ Album and track number, if it's from an album) should be enough to disambiguate in enough cases for someone to consider this "portable".
Beyond that, we have music fingerprint IDs that a service could output in the data dump along with their own service-specific ID.
> Are Apple and Spotify supposed to agree on a common file format?
For something as simple as this, yes, absolutely they should. It's bonkers that they don't and wouldn't, aside from garbage anti-competitive lock-in reasons.
Artist + Song Title (+ Album and track number, if it's from an album) should be enough to disambiguate in enough cases for someone to consider this "portable".
Beyond that, we have music fingerprint IDs that a service could output in the data dump along with their own service-specific ID.
> Are Apple and Spotify supposed to agree on a common file format?
For something as simple as this, yes, absolutely they should. It's bonkers that they don't and wouldn't, aside from garbage anti-competitive lock-in reasons.