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

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Post by nailer »

staplers wrote: post #61

Does no one here know about the BandsInTown app?

Seems like a different thing: https://news.bandsintown.com/home BIT is cool if you want to know who's in town and you know who they are, this for people who'd rather just hear tracks and if they like them go 'cool, I like whoever this is, I'll get tickets'

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

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Post by rahidz2003 »

mnx wrote: post #15

Devil is in the details. There's just no place to reliably source all of the events that are happening. Sure you can get the ones that sell tickets through ticketmaster, or whatever, but nobody reliably aggregates all the smaller concerts. So this will always be badly incomplete. Discovering all those shows is on of my main use-cases for facebook right now - it's the one place (almost) all of them show up.

How about crowdsourcing the info somehow, maybe letting people enter it for their city from some source and making that public for everyone?

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

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Post by metakermit »

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?

Yeah, just wanted to ask if you use an API to get events?

I've been working on something in a similar direction for Vienna. Tried to get SongKick API access, but they declined me. I also used BandsInTown on a project, but it's a bit limited. These days I'm just using Facebook Events, which is ok, but not perfect – can't get all the events in a particular city automatically. Managed to manually overcome this though.

But great work! Tried the app out and I really like it. Followed you on Twitter if you want to keep in touch. Would be nice to have some MusicEventsHackers group to discuss these topics :)

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

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Post by fergyfresh »

slashblake wrote: post #30
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!

I'd be willing to work with you as I have built a googleplay music version of this a while ago. https://github.com/fergyfresh/setlist-on-a-playlist

I took it a step further to make a playlist out of the bands most recent setlist, so its similar, but not the same. It's currently just a cli that allows you to make a playlist on your google play music based on a band's most recent setlist, provided it was posted on setlist.fm. Most of the bands that I listen to have the setlist.fm posted basically the same night of the show.

Would love to help, leverage, or even refactor some of your stuff so that we could use virtually any music playing platform to do this.

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

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Post by khaliqgant »

Kiro wrote: post #26

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.

I've been working on this: https://www.laidbackvj.com/ code here: https://github.com/khaliqgant/laid-back-vj. Happy to work with others!

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

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Post by fergyfresh »

cauterize wrote: post #17

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

I did this for google play music. I have a crude working version of scraping out the setlists from setlist.fm here, https://github.com/fergyfresh/setlist-on-a-playlist/blob/mas...

I'll work on this tonight to make it better at handling errors where it will force to find the most recent one that isn't blank, because if there are no songs in the most recent entry it will return a blank list.

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