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Raul Perțe

Replace Cover - Create beautiful cover art for your Spotify playlists

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Replace Cover is a little tool that enables anyone to create consistent cover arts for their Spotify playlists. Works with other music services too.

Backstory: I'm a product designer who wanted to learn React.js, so I spent some evenings & a couple weekends learning, building & shipping this app over the course of 10 days.

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Ryan Hoover
Fun idea, @raduceuca! Here's my new playlist cover art: Feature request: ability to upload a background image.
Radu Ceucă
Maker
@rrhoover Woohoo, Thank you! Unsplash.com integration in the works, same with custom images. This has been more of a fun little way for me to learn React.js in a week by building and shipping something fun! Cheers! Radu
Justin Barr Young
This is very cool. What resources did you use to teach yourself React? I'm impressed you built this is in ten days and I'd love to learn how to put something together like this.
Radu Ceucă
Maker
@thejaybeewhy Hi Justin, Thank you! I constantly had a gazillion tabs opened with various Medium / blog articles, Stackoverflow threads and such. (this was day 5 or 6 and Chrome in jigsaw mode »» http://cl.ly/qVUZ) Redux was by far the hardest concept to grasp and required watching a couple videos too. Took me a good 2-3 days to finally understand what the heck I was doing there. Luckily for me, I kinda knew what / how to google. While I was a complete noob at React 10 days ago, I was vaguely familiar with some of the core concepts + have some experience tinkering with everything from Swift (built a stupid emoji game inspired by Blackbox to learn, not anywhere near shippable) to good old php, nodejs & Angular and setting up S3 & Cloudfront to serve a highly optimised static website + I’ve been doing HTML / CSS on and off for quite a few years now. #startuplife designer :) All together and according to Rescuetime, I think I spent around 40+ hours building this. Two long weekends and some nights. Hope this answer helps!
Justin Barr Young
@raduceuca This was helpful. I've tried to learn in the past myself, but the React/Redux ecosystem has so many different pieces I wasn't sure where to start wrapping my head around it. Thanks for your response! I'm definitely going to use Replace Cover
Radu Ceucă
Maker
@thejaybeewhy This was one of the best articles I found on Redux, really helped: https://www.valentinog.com/blog/...
Radu Ceucă
Maker
Hey Product Hunt! Thought I'd also share the "Official" Spotify playlist of this app. This is what I've been listening to the last week or so, while building Replace Cover. A combination of funk, soul, r&b & indie stuff. ReplaceCover.com Original Soundtrack »» https://open.spotify.com/user/ra... Enjoy & thank you for the positive reactions! Radu
Andrei Blaj

I use Replace Cover for my Spotify playlists. I love the simplicity of the product. Big up!

Pros:

Easy to use, nice graphics

Cons:

Would love to see Replace Cover integrated directly in Spotify

Radu Ceucă
Maker
Cheers, Andrei! Received some amazing feedback to this from within Spotify and I'm now working on integrating their API so you can design & update your playlist cover art without even leaving Replace Cover.
John Cido

Expecting the image uploading feature.

Pros:

Easy to use

Cons:

Would be great if I can get color combination suggestions when choosing the theme

Radu Ceucă
Maker
Great feedback, cheers John!
Edwin Carbajal
This is really great! and I really like the solid color background
Radu Ceucă
Maker
@edwin_carbajal Thank you!
Javi
I've been waiting forever for someone to create this!  🙌
Radu Ceucă
Maker
@ios_javi Thank you! I agree 😁
Jp Valery
Used to have my own psd with styles but might switch to that out of convenience !
Radu Ceucă
Maker
@jpvalery That's exactly what I did a week or so ago. Big .psd with all the covers for my playlists. Then I figured... why not try and make this easier for more peeps. Cheers!
Andrei Blaj
Nice one, I use it for my Spotify Playlists.
Radu Ceucă
Maker
@andrei_blaj woop woop! Thank you!
Steve Messer
This is neat! Great idea too. Will be giving it a go.
Radu Ceucă
Maker
@stevenjmesser Thank you! P.S.: big fan of GDS, absolutely love what you're doing with GOV.UK!
John Cido
Can't help replacing all my list covers with it. Simple and funny!
Prateek Keshari
This is beautiful
Radu Ceucă
Maker
@prateekkesharii Thank you!
Samir Rashed
Absolutely love this can't wait to update all my playlists! Having problems with Firefox though, the save image button isn't working - no problem using Chrome. Thanks for making!
Ghost Kitty
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Radu Ceucă
Maker
@thatakke whoops, what device / OS / browser are you using? Really glad you like it! 🙌🏼
Radu Ceucă
Maker
@thatakke weird indeed, gonna look into it anyway. Cheers!
my

Would be nice if I can connect my Spotify, create a cover then change the playlist's cover directly without having to download and then upload again.

Anyway, very nice graphic!

Pros:

Easy and awesome design

Cons:

Not yet connected directly to Spotify

Pablo De Miguel

Very useful to substitute the ugly Spotify covers.

Pros:

Easy to Use!

Cons:

Nothing

Csibrány László
I like the idea! I believe, the 4th button on the right is the download button?! Am I the only one who cannot use it? (Ubuntu 17.10 with FF 59.0.2)
Pooya

Would be much better if there were more typographic styles

Pros:

Fun & easy to use

Cons:

Limited cover images

Alex Napier Holland
Cool idea... am I being a noob, or is it impossible to upload your own photo? Either that or grabbing Unsplash images directly is key for what I want to do. Cheers!
Alex Wulf 🇪🇺

Maybe it's firefox, in that case a help text would be helpful. Impressive work, keep going!

Pros:

- Idea seems nice - Nice looking covers

Cons:

- Core functionality (=export) seems broken