In the search for new music, it can often be difficult to find time to listen to new albums completely. Making a giant playlist full of albums I want to listen to, makes it feel like more of a chore than a new experience. Automating the process makes listening to new music of your choice a lot less overwhelming.
Commutipy automatically updates a user's specified public spotify playlist from a pool of chosen albums every morning. Open the commutipy playlist and listen to a randomly picked album you want to listen to on your commute. Just setup the script to run daily and add artist and album names to a text file.
This project runs on Windows and Linux. The only platform specific item is the path to the text file (so modifying for Mac should be simple). All code has been written and run on Python 3.x.
- Get Spotify credentials (
username,client_id,client_secret,redirect_uri) - Install dependencies
- First run setup
- Schedule
Register an application with Spotify to obtain ClientID and ClientSecret.
Link to Spotify application managment.
Use http://127.0.0.1 as your redirect uri (make sure to save if you do any modifications on your application page). Add this information to keys.py.
pip install -r requirements.txt installs the required dependencies.
- Spotipy: Python wrapper for Spotify which allows us to edit playlists
- Pandas: Makes it easier to modify csv files (for marking whether we've heard an album)
Make sure to get the uri of the playlist you want to edit. Go to Spotify, share a playlist and there should be a uri option. You just need the end (example: spotify:user:12129446897:playlist:5GHOJEsm77aM3XfdsPeD1Z. You just want 5GHOJEsm77aM3XfdsPeD1Z).
The Spotify instance will ask for a url containing the authorization code (read the docs to understand the flow), copy & paste that back into your console, and it should work.
Use cron on Linux to run it on a daily interval. Or use the Windows Task Scheduler. If running headless on a raspberry pi for instance, make sure to cd into the folder that has your cached token. Otherwise the job won't work.
Keep track of which albums were listened to completely (last.fm api?)