I'm creating a PHP/JS application that checks your Spotify Playlist for tracks that are not available in this form anymore but actually still are (the original album got removed, but a best of album with the same track is still available).
The software can already scan for the tracks, and create a new playlist with the replacement tracks.
However,
the UI is basically non-existent at this point,
I wanted to implement a NONCE but haven't had the time yet to do so and
there sure are plenty of other things worth improving
So I'd greatly appreciate your help over at GitHub. I wrote about what I learned while creating the software so far in a blog post, but I'd happily add "Learning about the values of OSS" to the list.
I haven't dug into the code for your repo at all yet, but would it be overly difficult to do something like this with Soundcloud? I personally have used Soundcloud and Spotify in tandem for various artists or sub-genres I'm a fan of, but a lot of Soundcloud music can vanish from the account you originally found it on so it's upsetting when you look for a song you know you had saved at some point, but it's no longer in your playlist.
The user selects a playlist displayed (fetched with the spotify API)
The software looks for any "local tracks" in that playlist (those are tracks that are not available any more, just a different name) - the tracklist is fetched using the Spotify API
The software searches via the Spotify API for songs that match the pattern "artist title" and displays those.
The user selects the songs that shall replace the unavailable songs
The software creates a new playlist and adds the replacement songs (all done via the Spotify API)
So as you can see, the software heavily relies on the Spotify API. If the soundcloud API offers the same features AND a test run where you take one of the greyed out/unavailable songs and search for it with the soundcloud search actually shows usable results then: yes a similar software for soundcloud can be created.
I'm honestly not too sure how fleshed out the SoundCloud API is, but I'll take a look and see how difficult it would be to add this. Thanks for the awesome reply 😊
I'm creating a PHP/JS application that checks your Spotify Playlist for tracks that are not available in this form anymore but actually still are (the original album got removed, but a best of album with the same track is still available).
The software can already scan for the tracks, and create a new playlist with the replacement tracks.
However,
So I'd greatly appreciate your help over at GitHub. I wrote about what I learned while creating the software so far in a blog post, but I'd happily add "Learning about the values of OSS" to the list.
I haven't dug into the code for your repo at all yet, but would it be overly difficult to do something like this with Soundcloud? I personally have used Soundcloud and Spotify in tandem for various artists or sub-genres I'm a fan of, but a lot of Soundcloud music can vanish from the account you originally found it on so it's upsetting when you look for a song you know you had saved at some point, but it's no longer in your playlist.
Here's how my software works:
So as you can see, the software heavily relies on the Spotify API. If the soundcloud API offers the same features AND a test run where you take one of the greyed out/unavailable songs and search for it with the soundcloud search actually shows usable results then: yes a similar software for soundcloud can be created.
I'm honestly not too sure how fleshed out the SoundCloud API is, but I'll take a look and see how difficult it would be to add this. Thanks for the awesome reply 😊
Cool! Keep me updated!