Yandex Music is home for millions of listeners in Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and across the region. Their friends abroad mostly aren't on it.
Why Yandex Music links don't open anywhere else
A music.yandex.ru link points at Yandex's own catalog, and outside the countries Yandex Music serves the web player often won't even load. Send one to a friend on Spotify or Apple Music and they get an error page or a sign-up wall instead of the song.
JamShare reads the Yandex Music link, finds the same recording on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, SoundCloud, Pandora and Deezer, and gives you one link that opens wherever each person listens.
Share from Yandex Music like always. Your friend hears it in Spotify.
Russian and Latin names still match
Plenty of artists appear in Cyrillic on one service and in Latin letters on another: Кино is Kino, Сплин is Splean. JamShare matches by the recording's ISRC code first, compares names across both alphabets, and checks title, edition and length. If it isn't sure a track is the same recording, it leaves that app out rather than sending your friend the wrong version.
Which Yandex Music links work
| Yandex Music link | Works | Opens in |
|---|---|---|
Songs (/album/…/track/…, /track/…) | Yes | Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, SoundCloud, Pandora and Deezer |
Albums (/album/…) | Yes | Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, SoundCloud, Pandora and Deezer |
Public playlists (/users/…/playlists/…, /playlists/lk.…) | Yes | Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, SoundCloud, Tidal |
| Artist pages | Not yet | No single item to open |
Links from music.yandex.ru, .com, .kz, .by, .uz, the next. web player and the mobile site all work.
It works the other way too
When a friend sends you a Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube Music link, convert it with JamShare and you get a Yandex Music button whenever Yandex has the same recording. One link covers the whole group chat, whichever side of the border everyone listens on.