PLYLST
Smart playlists for Spotify
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Josh Pigford

PLYLST - Smart playlists for Spotify

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Create smart playlists for your Spotify library! Stop relying on fancy pants algorithms to organize your library and instead build up playlists the way you want them.

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Josh Pigford
Maker
I have been a longtime iTunes user and, despite its shortcomings, the ability to build complex, dynamic playlists has yet to be matched by the other streaming services. I desperately wanted that ability in Spotify, so PLYLST is my attempt at building the thing I think it's missing most: that ability to put together dynamic playlists based on many different attributes. Spotify has a wealth of what they call "audio features" (danceability, valence, tempo, mode, energy, etc) and turns out those are pretty amazing tools for organize your library as well as discovering new music! There are over a dozen attributes that you can organize your Spotify library with. Oh, and it's open-source! https://github.com/Shpigford/plylst
samuraicode
@shpigford This is great. If it could show the BPM of the songs in my playlist then I could figure out a good cutoff value for the next iteration of the list!
Josh Pigford
Maker
@samuraicode Click on the little "i" info icon to the right of any track and it should be there!
samuraicode
@shpigford Booyah! Thank you!
Aaron Bowen
@shpigford not product related at all but is this the info for Counterparts lol
✎ Andrew Warner
I switched from Apple Music recently because Siri finally supports it. Apps like this give Spotify superpowers I didn’t know could exist when I was on Apple
Josh Pigford
Maker
@andrewwarner Exactly! Apple Music really had some pretty powerful features for curating your music. Spotify has lagged behind for years...so, figured it was time to just do it myself. :)
Simon Bennett
Did you get a product hunt hug of death :D It did look interesting! I do get fed up of the same old music from spotify.
Josh Pigford
Maker
@mrsimonbennett It's a tight squeeze at the moment. Just shy of death. 🙃
Mike Ritchie
@mrsimonbennett @shpigford curious, where's it hosted? what's the bottleneck?
Josh Pigford
Maker
@mrsimonbennett @mike_seekwell Render.com...not having any issues at the moment. :)
Martin 🔥
Glad to see PLYLST here! I mainly use it to generate playlists for running (using the BPM filter) - works like a charm!
Josh Pigford
Maker
@martinrlzd Great to hear, Martin!
darktowers
Great job, thank you so much for creating this! Is there any reason why you can only use the variables once? e.g. One Artist Name rule instead of multiple Artist Name rules? Is it a shortcoming of the Spotify API or just something that you can control in your app? Would be great to be able to use those variables multiple times if possible. Look forward to future updates!
Josh Pigford
Maker
@darktowers Depends on the rule! For artists, you can use the | separator to do multiple artists! Artist Name contains Bob Dylan|Shakira|Taylor Swift
darktowers
@shpigford Great tip, thank you so much for the fast response!
Yunus Tek
nice!
Josh Pigford
Maker
@ynstek Thanks Yunus! 🙌
Rania El-Ghezzaoui
Are you saying I don't have to press "I don't like this song" on almost every song in my Discover Weekly Spotify Playlist anymore?! HUGE! Congrats.
Josh Pigford
Maker
@rania_el_ghezzaoui Haha, I can relate to this feel all too well.
Duarte Martins
Very cool! Didn't know Spotify had so much information on each track, really interesting!
Josh Pigford
Maker
@duarteosrm It's pretty amazing!
Jack Smith
this is an awesome idea
Josh Pigford
Maker
@_jacksmith Thanks Jack! 🙌
Steven Jacobs
Great idea. Do you allow artists to pay for consideration spots in the playlists when it's applicable?
Josh Pigford
Maker
@stevenjacobs_ Thanks Steven! And that's a great idea. There's no commercial aspect to this yet (still waiting on approval from Spotify for my commercial license).
Steven Jacobs
@shpigford Great to hear. It sounds like you can monetize it the same way that Quuu has monetized their platform. Best of luck
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