i'm listening to a playlist for nyc and I love it. would love a playlist for SF.
Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town
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#92Hey, I love this idea and am working on something similar (an alternative events discovery and promotion tool for cities). I see that a lot of you folks here are also working on similar stuff. How about we chat more about these topics? Integration with APIs like BandsInTown, Facebook, apps like Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, music metadata collection from MusicBrainz, Discogs… If these topics sound interesting, join t…
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#93Kind 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!
I don't know if my music profile is somehow... weird, but i get a lot of random movies and audio books, mostly long (1-3 hours) and old (~1900-1940s). Not what i expected, but i actually found some interesting stuff. Thanks!
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#94Great idea!
Some feedback though: I found the tagline "It's a pain to look up every band coming to your city. Now just follow your favorite venues and genres and get a weekly Spotify playlist of upcoming music." intuitive but the heading "Stop Typing Every Band in Town" didn't make sense to me.
I'd go with something more straightforward like the title used for this Hacker News post. I immediately understood what that meant.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You can search by city in both the mobile app and desktop app to take a look at concerts outside of your area. Really handy. They mostly show only artists who you listen to frequently/genres you like
You're right. There's a great big button you can click to change your location. I guess I've just never clicked it so I forgot about it.
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#96Really liked the work you put in!
And I love that everybody is so supportive of it, cheers to all you guys!
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#97I made a similar site last August. http://www.hearnow.io/
You can pick a location on a map and it will generate a playlist for pretty much any city. I haven't done much work on it since then, but had a decent response when I posted it to Reddit. I've been considering open sourcing it, but not sure if there is interest.
My approach:
- Use SeatGeek's API to find venues/artists near the user
- Query Spotify's search API for artists with these names to get artist IDs (which you need to do other interesting things with Spotify's API)
- Filter results from Spotify search queries with fuzzy matching between artist names and results
- Use Spotify's API to get the top 5-10 most popular tracks for each artist, and randomly select ~30 to add to a playlist
Spotify's search API cannot be queried in batch which is a pretty frustrating bottleneck. I mainly solved this by caching artist name / ID pairs, but this would only really be effective if I got a lot of traffic (I don't).
Also, SeatGeek's API was a lot more friendly than Songkick, which I considered using. But SeatGeek didn't seem to have data for many venues overseas, so I had some users outside the U.S. that were disappointed that their queries would usually fail because the app couldn't find enough tracks.
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#98I 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)
Ben from Songkick here and we'd love to work with you on this. If you reach out to me I'd be happy to sort you out with API access. ben[at]songkick[dot]com
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#99Boston Boston Boston!
Re: Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town
#100I made a similar site last August. http://www.hearnow.io/ You can pick a location on a map and it will generate a playlist for pretty much any city. I haven't done much work on it since then, but had a decent response when I posted it to Reddit. I've been considering open sourcing it, but not sure if there is interest. My approach: - Use SeatGeek's API to find venues/artists near the user - Query Spotify's search API…
I got a guy up in portchester who recommends me sweet nugs of music, wonder if he's ever used your service...