The introduction of polls on Threads has given us the possiblity to add a rating system for both songs and playlists, but it has also made the process of submitting songs "correctly" a bit more complicated, and also require quite a bit of extra work. This post aims to mitigate some of this.
With this method we instruct ChatGPT to create complete MusicOnLeo entries for us, to streamline the process of adding songs.
Here's an example playlist, if you'd like to have a closer look at the end result:
@mightpossibly/re-leothreads-2rxw6qe2z
This video shows the entire process. I advise you, however, to read the steps below first, and only reference the video if you get stuck somewhere. Each step is timestamped so you can easily find it in the video if you need to.
Step 1: Make a list of songs (00:00)
Open an empty text document and type/paste in all the songs you want to add to your playlist, like so:
Yelawolf - Love is Not Enough
Yelawolf - I Wish
Yelawolf - Trunk Muzik
In this example I'll only use three songs for demonstration purposes, but you can add as many as you want
Step 2: Get the youtube links (00:06)
Copy/paste the first song into youtube's search and click on the video, then copy the link (no need to get the embed code)
Now paste the youtube link BEFORE the corresponding song, like so:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz2c-8FnzQY Yelawolf - Love is Not Enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dw00rumlNQ Yelawolf - I Wish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3icH856G5c Yelawolf - Trunk Muzik
Step 3: Generate the song threads (01:15)
Log in to chat.openai.com and paste in this prompt (don't hit Enter yet!):
Below is a list where each line contains a URL followed by a string of text. I want you to create one tweet for each line in the list inside a code-box, so it will be easy for me to copy each tweet. The URL that you use in the tweets you create must be a modified version of the corresponding urls in the list. The modification that's needed is to insert /embed after the .com part of the URL
This is how each tweet must be structured exactly:
paragraph 1, i.e. the very first line of the tweet, must contain the corresponding text string from each line in the list
paragraph 2 must be be blank
paragraph 3 must contain the hashtags #musiconleo and #polls
paragraph 4 must contain an iframe like this, but VIDEO_URL needs to be replaced with the modified url as described above. <iframe src="VIDEO_URL" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe>
paragraph 5 must be blank
paragraph 6 must contain this text string: Rate this song:
I need you to make a one code box for every single line.
Now paste in your list below the prompt you pasted above, then hit Enter. It should look something like this:
Step 4: Create your threads (02:10)
You now have one code box for each song, ready for posting. Click the Copy code-button. Now repeat this process for all the embed codes you have.
Paste it into a new thread, and add a rating poll, then post it.
TIMESAVING TIP! If you don't refresh the page, but just keep pasting in the code and threads, the poll will be remembered, so you don't have to put in all the response options (the stars) over and over. You'll just have to do it once for the whole playlist
Step 5: Create your playlist (04:17)
To make a playlist for the MusicOnLeo database, you must use the tags 'musiconleo' and 'playlist'. If the playlist you're creating is also an album, you may also add the tag 'album' and the artist name.
PS! Remember to add a rating poll to the playlist/album too!
Now you can easily add all the songs you've created by rethreading them (pasting the link to each thread within the playlist thread).
If you found this interesting, feel free to leave a comment, upvote or reblog.
Thank you for reading!
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