Release Robbe

Get and manage new songs and artists from Spotify

What's it gonna do?

Let's go through the workflow of the thing:

• Either get new songs of artists from some source or top 10 songs from a Greylist

• Get the artists for new releases

  • You can get them through playlists, a local Allowlist or the artists you follow
    • You select which playlists you want to scan for artists.

• The programm goes through the list of artists.

• You have an Allowlist, Greylist and Blocklist.

  • The Allowlist is made up of all artists you are certain of, are fine to you
  • The Blocklist contains artists you don't want to get new stuff from (Gangnam Style was fun, but are you really that much into PSY?)
  • Finally the Greylist artists are new to you, so maybe you want to check out their stuff at a later time.

• It's going to ask you where to put new additions

  • It sucks on the first run, because there is no data on the lists.
  • New artists go on the Greylist anyhow.
  • You choose one of the following:
    • Add new songs, don't put on the Allowlist
    • Add new songs AND put on the Allowlist
    • Ignore new songs, but don't put the artist on the Blocklist
    • Ignore new songs AND put them on the Blocklist
    • All of the 4 above again, but this time for ALL artists
    • If the artist is on the Greylist, it's going to be ignored. You can get top songs as mentioned above
  • It's going to ignore artists from the Blocklist and won't ask you if they are on the Grey or Allowlist.

• Going through the artists, it's going to save all songs that have been released since a date you specified.

  • Or top songs for entries on the Greylist if you said so
  • While it tries to remove live versions and duplicates, it's not perfect though.

• After it has saved a number of songs, you can choose a playlist on Spotify to add them to.

Prerequisites

Side note:

You gotta make a Spotify app. I know it's annoying, but here's why:

• This are the scopes we need:
  • playlist-read-collaborative
    • So it can get the artists on your collab lists
  • playlist-read-private
    • Maybe you even want to get artists from a private list
  • playlist-modify-private
    • This is to add the new tracks to a private playlist, if you choose to
  • playlist-modify-public
    • You get the gist, don't you?
  • user-follow-read
    • You can also use the list of artists you follow as a source
• Nobody is going to see your data, except for you and the NSA of course.
  • Please check out my yucky code, there's no hidden server this data is sent to.
    • Really do, because I feel like my code isn't very efficient, especially on memory usage.
  • The only persistent data is going to be your lists, which are saved locally
    • If there's Spice Girls on there and you don't want anybody to know, encrypt and lock your drives, I can't change that 😉

Make a Spotify app:

Let's make it short and simple:

• Go here: https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/
• Log in
• Create an app
  • Call it whatever you want. Bonus points for creativity, but I don't get to see the name anyway.
• Save/Memorize/Tattoo your Client ID and Client Secret
• Run my code, put those things in there, as well as your username
• Those details are going to stay in a local configuration file
• Done, here's a cookie for your effort 🍪

TODO

• Track duplication detection: Same name && length -> duplicate

  • Worth the effort? Needs more data at duplicate detection
    • More data, slower time complexity because of data structure

• Window sizes

• Documentation

• Search optimization

• Fuzzy search, because as of now, searching a list through user input is kinda useless

• Search artists on spotify and add them

• Typos

• Some window sizes wrong

• Bobby "talks" to you

• Source also influences Top 10 grey

• Major rehaul of the "new releases" way of deciding on new artists

  • Bunch up new artists, decide on them at the end
  • Split artist and new songs decision