PLYLST

Smart playlists for Spotify

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Smart playlists for Spotify

5 followers

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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Knockoff

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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

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6yr ago

@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!

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6yr ago

Knockoff

Maker

@samuraicode Click on the little "i" info icon to the right of any track and it should be there!

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6yr ago

@shpigford Booyah! Thank you!

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6yr ago

@shpigford not product related at all but is this the info for Counterparts lol

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6yr ago

feedback: it could be good if it said an error message if no songs meet the criteria. as currently the playlist just sits empty it seems like. also, if i set "danceability" to "very", does that mean that it'll exclude songs which are marked "super" ? if so, it could be good if we could specify that they are "AT LEAST" ranked "very" (i.e. including very and super in that mix"). or that we can expand the criteria to include very OR super

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6yr ago

Knockoff

Maker

@_jacksmith Great feedback! And yes, definitely need to implement less than/greater than/between options for some of those filters. :)

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6yr ago

Knockoff

Maker

@_jacksmith Just implemented less than/greater than/between on Danceability, Acousticness and Energy!

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6yr ago

Raycast

Great tool! That's exactly what I had been waiting for. Just one question: Are there any plans to implement a disjunction of rules?

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6yr ago

Knockoff

Maker

@ragnor_c Thanks! For the rules question, what exactly are you wanting to accomplish?

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6yr ago

Raycast

@shpigford Being able to create playlists with other boolean operators (and, or, not). E.g. "Rule1 OR Rule2" instead of only "Rule1 AND Rule2"

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6yr ago

Knockoff

Maker

@ragnor_c Ah, yes! It's on the list: https://github.com/Shpigford/ply... :)

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6yr ago

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.

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6yr ago

Knockoff

Maker

@rania_el_ghezzaoui Haha, I can relate to this feel all too well.

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6yr ago

Bubbles

I always wanted to have a playlist based on what my friends play, is that something you can do next? ;) Checked your website and the "how" is not immediately obvious to me, so made some contextual points here: https://app.usebubbles.com/9a488... -- let me know if this helps!

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6yr ago

@tom4 You might be interested in Tunetables https://www.producthunt.com/upco...

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6yr ago

DigitalOcean

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.

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6yr ago

Knockoff

Maker

@mrsimonbennett It's a tight squeeze at the moment. Just shy of death. 🙃

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6yr ago

SeekWell

@mrsimonbennett @shpigford curious, where's it hosted? what's the bottleneck?

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6yr ago

Knockoff

Maker

@mrsimonbennett @mike_seekwell Render.com...not having any issues at the moment. :)

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6yr ago

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!

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6yr ago

Knockoff

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

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6yr ago

@shpigford Great tip, thank you so much for the fast response!

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6yr ago

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