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Re: Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town

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Post by peterburkimsher » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 2:30 PM UTC

I'm a big fan of live music, and even flew to Japan to go to the PunkSpring festival. If you'd like data for Taiwan, please get in touch!

There's also a large, free dataset from Apple with the whole iTunes Store database. Search "iTunes EPF" for more info. It's 55 GB uncompressed. Perhaps you could use this to generate affiliate links and earn money if people buy the songs in your playlist.

https://affiliate.itunes.apple.com/resources/documentation/i...

Re: Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town

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Post by amelius » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 2:31 PM UTC

Cool, but one question: did you send a feature-request to Spotify before you decided to make this?

Re: Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town

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Post by toomanybeersies » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 2:32 PM UTC

coldsauce wrote: post #11

I think this is a really interesting idea. Spotify has a feature where you can see if an artist is going to be playing near your location by going to the artist's page and going to the 'concert' tab. However, I don't think they have one to go the other way i.e "find all artists performing in one location" Someone at the SXSW Hackathon two weeks ago worked on a similar thing [1]. The difference in their project was th…

Spotify does give you gigs in your area. You go to browse, and then the "concerts" tab.

You can't change the location though, it's based off device location.

Re: Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town

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Post by ratsimihah » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 2:33 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #22

Cool, but one question: did you send a feature-request to Spotify before you decided to make this?

That sounds time-consuming

Re: Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town

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Post by scardine » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 2:35 PM UTC

I've made a similar app at a local hackathon sponsored by Sabre: it would search your playlists on Spotify in order to identify your favorite artists. Then it would match the artist presentation schedule and find the best place in the world to watch the artist's concert based on ticket price + travel expenses. Something like: "the best city to watch U2 is Buenos Aires in August - while there you can also visit the Recoleta neighborhood and ..."

Re: Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town

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Post by Kiro » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 2:39 PM UTC

Kind of OT but has anyone succeeded in creating playlists through YouTube's API? I had a kind of similar idea to this and wanted to create automatic playlists but failed on the integration part.

EDIT: Ok, looks like this is very easy with the v3 API. This was quite a long time ago.

Re: Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town

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Post by dublinben » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 2:41 PM UTC

slashblake wrote: post #5

ebellity wrote: post #2

I like the idea. Maybe you could leverage Songkick API to support more cities ? (I moved to Tel Aviv recently and it's really hard to spend the time to find out which concerts are worth going to)

Looked into this. SongKicks licensing is really restrictive once I start using their API. Do you have a site you use for upcoming shows in Tel Aviv?

You may have better luck with Bandsintown. They've got an API, and seem to have all the same concert data.

Re: Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town

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Post by nukeop » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 2:42 PM UTC

Can this be used to create playlists in formats with more interoperating potential, such as JSON?

Re: Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town

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Post by slashblake » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 2:46 PM UTC

sixothree wrote: post #12

Please add New Orleans.

I can look into it. Do you have a site you browse to find upcoming shows in NO?

Re: Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town

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Post by slashblake » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 2:47 PM UTC

cauterize wrote: post #17

Great idea! Another idea I've wanted for awhile, setlist.fm based Spotify playlists for concerts I liked.

I had a friend mention this to me too recently. I just grab the artist's top 3 tracks and add them to your playlist. Perhaps I could use setlist.fm to put songs more likely to be heard at the upcoming shows. Thanks!