Smooth Sampler: Recreate Rare Fundraising CDs as Streaming Playlists

Smooth Sampler - As if it was 1995 all over again.
If it was 1995, this would be on the shelf at the Babbage’s where I worked part-time to support my software habit.

Many fundraising CDs released over the years—such as KKSF’s Sampler for AIDS Relief series—captured an excellent snapshot of the music being played at the time. Unfortunately, these compilations are often unavailable as complete albums on today’s streaming services.

Smooth Sampler retrieves the original track list from MusicBrainz and converts it into a format Soundiiz can use. From there, Soundiiz can locate the individual tracks and recreate the compilation as a playlist on Apple Music, Amazon Music, and other supported services.

Check out Smooth Sampler at github.com/ncnetsec/smoothsampler.

Here is a sample of a playlist built with the tool available at Soundiiz for KKSF Vol. 10.

My experience with using it to build playlists thr0ugh Soundiiz, puts YouTube at the top of list for most likely to have all tracks where Amazon Music and Apple Music tend to miss a few tracks. I would not suggest taking a YouTube playlist and sending it to other streaming services as YouTube tends to mangle the song and artist data making look ups on the other services worse than if you just follow the Soundiiz link created by the prepare command and select a real music streaming service will usually provide the most complete list but may still be missing a few if not on the service.