Show HN: KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic Spotify Playlist Generator

Post by teoucsb82 » Mon, Mar 07, 2016, 10:24 PM UTC

fowkswe wrote: post #10

teoucsb82 wrote: post #9

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Ah, nice... Is this the compiled, "All KCRW" music list (outside of MBE?). Mine is meant just to cover MBE, not "all the stuff", trying to understand where your tracklists are built from -- are you building them on the fly/programmatically based off historical/most played data? For instance, your Fri 3/4/16 playlist doesn't seem to have the MBE playlist in there, but maybe I'm missing something? Cool stuff either way…

Thanks! I'm pulling the day's songs via the API: http://tracklist-api.kcrw.com/Simulcast/date/2016/03/04?page... etc, and creating a playlist out of those. I'm parsing the artist/ song names pretty crudely, so I think it drops some. I thought they were folding all shows during the day into that list, but maybe I'm wrong?

Post by teoucsb82 » Mon, Mar 07, 2016, 10:31 PM UTC

teoucsb82 wrote: post #11

fowkswe wrote: post #10

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Thanks! I'm pulling the day's songs via the API: http://tracklist-api.kcrw.com/Simulcast/date/2016/03/04?page... etc, and creating a playlist out of those. I'm parsing the artist/ song names pretty crudely, so I think it drops some. I thought they were folding all shows during the day into that list, but maybe I'm wrong?

Ah, yeah, that's the same API I'm tapping into (just setting the time to `9:00` to capture the MBE playlist only. Had to do some Spotify OAuthing to get it working so you can save a playlist locally with a single click, but I might steal -- "borrow" -- some of your UI ;) Good stuff, again! Also, fowkswe, you cool if I add a link to your site from mine?