Hello, I am the creator of the website.
The main goal is not having to search on UltimateGuitar for the chords of the songs you want to play, but instead get a direct link to the song on UG.
I made it because I was tired of checking my Spotify playlists for songs of which I didn't remember the title but I wanted to play and then go on UG and type the title in the search field. It's more of a "I'm lazy" tool than an actual tab website.
You would think getting the notes and converting them to chords, and tablature, would be one of those "exactly suited for neural nets" type of problem.<p>If you want the chords to "Here comes the sun," you can find dozens of hits, but try something slightly obscure and they are hard to come by. (People with great ears have no idea what I am talking about.)
Against my better judgement I actually logged in with Spotify, only to find that it just didn't work. I'm not really sure what I was expecting anyway.<p>There used to be a great trade in guitar chords online, but then lots of small sites got taken down and ultimategyitar tried to put a big shitty paywall around years and years of high quality content made by volunteers and often scraped from other sites.
In the good old days of Winamp (15 years ago...) I created a plugin that scraped the web and showed the chord in Winamp as you played a song. The code was dead easy to implement as it was just an embedded site within Winamp (HTML & Javascript & Winamp JS SDK). And surprisingly the site is still running! Not sure if the scraping still works though <a href="http://pikkipowpow.davidsmit.za.net/Home.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://pikkipowpow.davidsmit.za.net/Home.aspx</a><p>So yes there are definitely a use case for all the new media players to show chords
Tangentially, if you want to get chords from a song (and can't find them already written online), Capo does a pretty great job at it and is very easy to use. Mac/iOS only, but the best I've seen.<p><a href="https://supermegaultragroovy.com/products/capo/" rel="nofollow">https://supermegaultragroovy.com/products/capo/</a>
I built something similar for personal use. It's a Mac app that uses AppleScript to poll Spotify for the track that is currently playing. It then looks for chords on Ultimate Guitar through a small NodeJS API that uses Puppeteer to scrape the site. I'll usually just put my guitar playlist on shuffle and have this app open alongside it.
Hah! I made a similar thing where I have a button in my extension bar on chrome that I click to perform a google search of [song I'm listening to on spotify] + " chords". Waiting for firefox manifest v3 update to add final touches.
Hi! In terms of your credential flow - did you get a quote extension from Spotify for your use-case? I know that this kind of log in flow is really restricted without requested (at least in my experience working with the API).
This is great, I was thinking of a similar idea recently- thank you for making this! If you haven't already, I would suggest sharing it on reddit too- I think /r/guitar and some others would love it :)