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PLYLST — Smart playlists for Spotify
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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@_jacksmith Great feedback! And yes, definitely need to implement less than/greater than/between options for some of those filters. :)
@_jacksmith Just implemented less than/greater than/between on Danceability, Acousticness and Energy!
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
@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!
@samuraicode Click on the little "i" info icon to the right of any track and it should be there!
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
@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. :)
This is so dope! Been putting off creating playlists from my favorites for ages, but you just solved this whole problem. Legend!
@antoinetheman To be able to actually create/modify playlists, Spotify requires all of those permissions, unfortunately.
Great idea. Do you allow artists to pay for consideration spots in the playlists when it's applicable?
@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).
@shpigford Great to hear. It sounds like you can monetize it the same way that Quuu has monetized their platform. Best of luck
Great tool! That's exactly what I had been waiting for. Just one question: Are there any plans to implement a disjunction of rules?
@ragnor_c Thanks! For the rules question, what exactly are you wanting to accomplish?
@shpigford Being able to create playlists with other boolean operators (and, or, not). E.g. "Rule1 OR Rule2" instead of only "Rule1 AND Rule2"
This is so amazing! Just the other day I was thinking "I want to have a playlist of all the jazz tunes in my library that feature the piano" -> couple of clicks and I was done <3
Very cool! Didn't know Spotify had so much information on each track, really interesting!
I love the idea and wanna give it a shot but it is continuously crashing. Can you check it please?
@sanchitsh Working through some performance issues at the moment. Sorry about that!
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.
Love the idea of this, but it keeps crashing when i'm trying to build a playlist. You must be very popular :)
I love this so much. However, I am not seeing the playlist show up in Spotify. It's been over an hour.
@vanntechtoo Sorry about the delay, Vann! Had some server issues. Should be much faster now!
Thank you for this! Feature request: Rules > Artist Name > Music Similar To > [NAME] ;-)
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