Noiseblend

Hi @abadesi! I'm a fan of Discover weekly myself! ✨ But I can't rely on it for specific activities like reading or working out for example. Yes, I know that there are quite a lot of playlists for those activities, but I wanted something more personal. That's what Noiseblend gives you, always-fresh playlists generated using the same technologies that Discover Weekly uses, based on what you like to listen on that specific occasion. That, and an easy way to customize those recommendations based on attributes such as Danceability 💃 or Acousticness 🎸. Of course, this wouldn't have been possible without the powerful API that Spotify provides. We're not reinventing another AI, just borrowing theirs 😄

@abadesi @alin23 Love the UI! When you say "borrowing theirs" for the AI, are you doing any playlist manipulation on your end? Or are you using a Spotify Endpoint that crafts a playlist based off of some parameter?

@kevinguebert We're mostly using the Spotify `/recommendations` endpoint for the playlist generation. We're also doing some basic playlist manipulation like a custom ordering algorithm and some fiddling with the seed parameters for `/recommendations`. But no machine learning stuff is done on our part. This would require a huge database with user behavior data and I'm trying to keep as little data as possible about the users.

@alin23 Awesome work! Thanks for sharing!

@reymarr_zamora_hijara Hi! We are experiencing some problems with our database and we'll be back as soon as possible. We are really sorry for this!

@reymarr_zamora_hijara I'm still working on fixing all the errors. There's a database connection limit that breaks the service from time to time. I'm hoping on fixing it today.

@alin23 Aight. Standing by...

@reymarr_zamora_hijara the database problem and other small issues have been resolved. You can use the app now 😇 Though there are still some issues for users where Spotify just launched and most of the recommendations come as not playable for their country ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Still, if you experience any error/issue, please tell us how it happened because sometimes your words can be much more helpful than an error traceback. We simply cannot predict all the use cases from the start.

@jfinkelstein What you are seeing is the album of the first track generated. This is the only way I could open up the Spotify app through a URI, by opening a specific album or artist. But if you'll look in the queue, you'll see that there are songs that won't be from that album. Those are the blend tracks. Sorry if this sounds misleading, Spotify doesn't give me a way to open the queue with an URI so I had to find a workaround.

@milanseitler good points 🙂 There's a lot more that I can do to make the user experience better. • Customizable blends are on the way • The play buttons next to each track are 30 seconds previews that Spotify offers. • The big play button on the bottom is the one you're looking for. That one starts playback through an already connected Spotify device. I didn't implement playback streaming on my website because it would have mean another month of work that I do not have at the moment. And I probably couldn't have done a better job than what the Spotify app does already. • If you have a playlist created by choosing artists, that's a dynamic list of songs, and it doesn't really exist as a Spotify playlist until you press Save in the upper left corner. After it's saved, you will have it under your account and you can press Open to either open it in the Spotify native app or in the Spotify Web Player. • If you have a playlist got from the Genres/Countries/Cities part, it's already a Spotify playlist and you can press Open to get to it. Those playlists are under the users "particledetector" and "thesoundsofspotify". • And yes, I will have to rethink that hidden menu. It's frustrating even for me. When I started implementing it, I just wanted to have as much space as possible for the content, but there are better ways for that.