Brief, mostly facts

MilkCrate: a free song-sharing page built with Claude Code

It routes a link to the listener's preferred music service and needs no account. The lookups fall back to the iTunes Search API.

Read the source at reddit.com

What the research found

A Reddit developer built MilkCrate, a free no-account song sharing page that routes a link to the user's preferred music service, using Claude Code on a Kotlin/Ktor and Postgres backend; it relies on the iTunes Search API as a fallback for lookups.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

Odesli (song.link) closed its free API in summer, prompting the author to build replacement share pages 98%
Spotify recently closed its API to indie developers, so search-link fallbacks are used when no direct link exists 93%
iTunes Search API allows about 20 requests per minute for the whole server, mitigated by a 10-minute search cache 98%
MilkCrate share page is free and needs no account to use 99%

Evidence

reddit.com https://reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xblg9d/i_built_a_free_linksharing_page_for_music_with
milkcratemusic.com https://milkcratemusic.com/share

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