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Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by fluxinflex »

NomadicDaggy wrote: post #36
fluxinflex wrote: post #34

I once built a site that used Spotify playlist data directly. The intention was that you could take one of your own playlist and find playlists that have the greatest overlaps. The intention was to find people with a similiar musical taste to yourself. Interestingly I found a lot of new music that way and also found other music directions that suddenly interested me. Thinking this a little further, it provides the pe…

Interesting idea! Slightly off-topic, but originally I had planned to organically grow the playlist count by allowing users to login with their Spotify account and reading their playlists. I even made a prototype...but turns out Spotify only allows working with user data once you have your API quota extended, which seemed like quite the undertaking.

Yer their quote system is a bit painful. I built a bunch of background jobs that continually retrieved data ... max'ed out the quote limit constantly.

I even went as far as setting a second developer account to have a larger limit ;)

I also did a writeup[1] on lessons learnt in case someone is interested in rinsing and repeating on this idea.

[1]=https://gregorius.rippenstein.art/works/hamoni

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by its_bbq »

NomadicDaggy wrote: post #39
santiagobasulto wrote: post #37

This is very helpful! I've searched for this in the past. There's sometimes one song I like and I'd like to find more like that. Something useful I found is the "Go to song radio" in Spotify, that creates kind of a "dynamic" playlist with similar songs.

Thank you very much! I also use the Spotify radios a lot, but they are heavily curated - they contain a lot of songs that you already have in a playlist or have liked. So they are useful for listening, but slightly less for strictly music discovery.

I use radios in a hybrid approach. I'll make a radio, find a song I like, and then go play the album through and let Spotify start recommending, and repeat. Tends to make enough variety to get me to all sorts of interesting places

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by NomadicDaggy »

fluxinflex wrote: post #41
NomadicDaggy wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting idea! Slightly off-topic, but originally I had planned to organically grow the playlist count by allowing users to login with their Spotify account and reading their playlists. I even made a prototype...but turns out Spotify only allows working with user data once you have your API quota extended, which seemed like quite the undertaking.

Yer their quote system is a bit painful. I built a bunch of background jobs that continually retrieved data ... max'ed out the quote limit constantly. I even went as far as setting a second developer account to have a larger limit ;) I also did a writeup[1] on lessons learnt in case someone is interested in rinsing and repeating on this idea. [1]= https://gregorius.rippenstein.art/works/hamoni

I'll check out the write-up, thanks. As for user-data, the request count limit is not even the limiting factor. If you want to request data with a users token, you can't at all, without getting a quota extension (apart from 25 pre-registered developer users).

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by WinstonBites »

fluxinflex wrote: post #34

I once built a site that used Spotify playlist data directly. The intention was that you could take one of your own playlist and find playlists that have the greatest overlaps. The intention was to find people with a similiar musical taste to yourself. Interestingly I found a lot of new music that way and also found other music directions that suddenly interested me. Thinking this a little further, it provides the pe…

stats.fm app has a matching service using spotify stats that sound similar to what you are describing

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by blfr »

fluxinflex wrote: post #34

I once built a site that used Spotify playlist data directly. The intention was that you could take one of your own playlist and find playlists that have the greatest overlaps. The intention was to find people with a similiar musical taste to yourself. Interestingly I found a lot of new music that way and also found other music directions that suddenly interested me. Thinking this a little further, it provides the pe…

> Thinking this a little further, it provides the perfekt basis for a dating application. Music is a very personally representation of oneself and if you find someone who has the same muscial taste, you already have a common basis for communication.

I don't think a shared taste in music is that important, or at all, in a relationship but this is the premise of aptly named Tastebuds[1], a dating app based around favorite music. You can import your listening data from Last.fm and Spotify.

[1] https://tastebuds.fm/

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by tuzemec »

fluxinflex wrote: post #34

I once built a site that used Spotify playlist data directly. The intention was that you could take one of your own playlist and find playlists that have the greatest overlaps. The intention was to find people with a similiar musical taste to yourself. Interestingly I found a lot of new music that way and also found other music directions that suddenly interested me. Thinking this a little further, it provides the pe…

Remember last.fm? If I remember correctly, it was able to show other profiles with similar music taste.

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by NomadicDaggy »

jonas-w wrote: post #46

I think searching by the spotify song id / song link, would be easier in my opinion, as I couldn't really find what i was looking for.

That functionality already exists, but is prompted for only on large screens, because I didn't think anybody would use it on mobile. And thanks for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain

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Post by jonas-w »

NomadicDaggy wrote: post #49
jonas-w wrote: post #46

I think searching by the spotify song id / song link, would be easier in my opinion, as I couldn't really find what i was looking for.

That functionality already exists, but is prompted for only on large screens, because I didn't think anybody would use it on mobile. And thanks for the feedback!

Thanks, checked it out on my laptop. Great stuff!
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