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Music & Movies
BoldContacts can connect to many popular music services and movie services, including YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Prime Video, Google TV, and more.
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How to link
Many major services have ways to link directly to an artist, album, song, playlist, video, streaming radio station, or streaming video channel.
The link is called a "URL" which stands for "Uniform Resource Locator". The URL is an internet address, such as a web page address, or a media player content file address.
Each major service has its own way link to content by using a URL. You will need to use whichever way your preferred service uses.
Music example: "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
Example URL formats for the song "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles:
- YouTube Music:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=v1HDt1tknTc - Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/4pbG9SUmWIvsROVLF0zF9s - Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-want-to-hold-your-hand/1440833098?i=1440833542
Movie example: "The Wizard of Oz"
Example URL formats for the "The Wizard of Oz" movie trailer with Judy Garland:
- YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP5oQ0_xdow - Amazon Prime Video:
https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Oz-Judy-Garland/dp/B0B6Q9V9H8 - Google TV:
https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/The_Wizard_of_Oz_1939
How to create a contact
When you know the URL, then you can create a new contact:
- Start your typical iOS Contacts app.
- Tap the "+" icon to create a new contact.
- Type any name you want, such as "The Beatles" or "Wizard of Oz".
- Add any image you want, such as a photo of The Beatles or Wizard of Oz.
- Add the URL link to your music or movie.
How to refresh BoldContacts
When your contact is ready, then you refresh BoldContacts:
- Quit BoldContacts, then relaunch it.
- The relaunch makes BoldContacts refresh your contact list.
- A future release of BoldContacts will add automatic refresh.
Thank you for reading about this.
We welcome your questions and ideas.
You can email joel@boldcontacts.org.