Search Spotify artists, albums, and tracks

[lydavid]

Motivation

I want to be able to quickly lookup MusicBrainz for artists/albums/tracks from Spotify. And those names might be in a language I can't type.
Spotify doesn't offer a way to copy/paste any of these on mobile.

Spotify broadcast notification

Fortunately, Spotify provides a way to broadcast metadata that includes artist/album/track name to other apps on your Android device.

You will have to turn this feature on from inside Spotify's settings: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/android/guides/android-media-notifications/#enabling-media-notifications

References

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/android/guides/android-media-notifications/

https://community.metabrainz.org/t/spotify-companion/535483

https://community.metabrainz.org/t/adding-spotify-uids-to-musicbrainz-database/57973/9

Implementation

• Use a broadcast receiver to listen to Spotify's broadcast notifications
• For now, just put in settings
  • eventually, should put this somewhere in the search screen as another method to search
• track Spotify play history similar to Now Playing? #334
• Support deeplinking search
  • artist: Artist
  • album: Release Group, Artist
  • track: Recording, Artist
• A disclaimer/warning to user to enable Device Broadcast Status in their Spotify app
  • Where should this be?
  • If this is a hightlight feature, we can have a pop-up on first app launch advertising it
• UI

Open questions

• Is there any way for us to get the artist/album/track name in its original language?
  • If they are transliterated, we will not find any results from MusicBrainz
  • This seems to depend on the artist, nothing we can really do about it
  • There's plenty of artists whose name/albums/tracks are listed in their original language