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Show HN: KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic Spotify Playlist Generator

6 points by teoucsb82 11y ago

teoucsb82 11y ago
disclaimer This is my first Show HN, hope I followed the rules but will be watching this to adjust / respond to any feedback. Quick little app that builds Spotify playlists for any KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic playlist (by date). You can play directly in app or download / save to your own account to take with you. Feedback -- positive / negative -- greatly appreciated.
- teoucbs82 11y ago
  And first lesson, turn off uptime robot for free heroku dynos or you wake up to h82 "over free dyno limits". Sorry if anyone is trying to use this Monday 3/7 morning, it'll be back online around 11am today
philiphodgen 11y ago
I just populated my Spotify with a playlist. Painless and I'm looking forward to hearing the music. MBE has been a great way for me to discover new music. And I have to say -- your little product made me giggle with happiness when I watched the playlist load in Spotify.
- teoucsb82 11y ago
  And you have no idea how thrilled your comment made me! I just hacked this together and it came out way better than I expected, which is why I put it here, glad you were able to make some use of it!
gonyea 11y ago
Oh man, that's great. I miss KCRW so bad after moving to the Bay Area from LA.
- teoucsb82 11y ago
  Me too...That's why I made this, now I have endless spotify's for work :)
fowkswe 11y ago
Nice! I made this: http://billyfowks.com/spotify/ http://billyfowks.com/spotify/ which pretty much contains the full day's playlist
- teoucsb82 11y ago
  Ah, nice... Is this the compiled, "All KCRW" music list (outside of MBE?). Mine is meant just to cover MBE, not "all the stuff", trying to understand where your tracklists are built from -- are you building them on the fly/programmatically based off historical/most played data? For instance, your Fri 3/4/16 playlist doesn't seem to have the MBE playlist in there, but maybe I'm missing something? Cool stuff either way, actually found yours via Google while researching my own ;)
  - fowkswe 11y ago
    Thanks! I'm pulling the day's songs via the API: http://tracklist-api.kcrw.com/Simulcast/date/2016/03/04?page_size=100&page=1 http://tracklist-api.kcrw.com/Simulcast/date/2016/03/04?page... etc, and creating a playlist out of those. I'm parsing the artist/ song names pretty crudely, so I think it drops some. I thought they were folding all shows during the day into that list, but maybe I'm wrong?
    - teoucsb82 11y ago
      Ah, yeah, that's the same API I'm tapping into (just setting the time to `9:00` to capture the MBE playlist only. Had to do some Spotify OAuthing to get it working so you can save a playlist locally with a single click, but I might steal -- "borrow" -- some of your UI ;) Good stuff, again! Also, fowkswe, you cool if I add a link to your site from mine?
      - fowkswe 11y ago
        Feel free to use the same UI trick - I 'borrowed' it from the guy who made http://pitchify.com http://pitchify.com I'd love it if you put a link! I'll do the same :).

6 points by teoucsb82 11y ago

disclaimer This is my first Show HN, hope I followed the rules but will be watching this to adjust / respond to any feedback. Quick little app that builds Spotify playlists for any KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic playlist (by date). You can play directly in app or download / save to your own account to take with you. Feedback -- positive / negative -- greatly appreciated.

teoucbs82 11y ago
And first lesson, turn off uptime robot for free heroku dynos or you wake up to h82 "over free dyno limits". Sorry if anyone is trying to use this Monday 3/7 morning, it'll be back online around 11am today

philiphodgen 11y ago

I just populated my Spotify with a playlist. Painless and I'm looking forward to hearing the music. MBE has been a great way for me to discover new music. And I have to say -- your little product made me giggle with happiness when I watched the playlist load in Spotify.

teoucsb82 11y ago
And you have no idea how thrilled your comment made me! I just hacked this together and it came out way better than I expected, which is why I put it here, glad you were able to make some use of it!

gonyea 11y ago

Oh man, that's great. I miss KCRW so bad after moving to the Bay Area from LA.

teoucsb82 11y ago
Me too...That's why I made this, now I have endless spotify's for work :)

fowkswe 11y ago

Nice! I made this: http://billyfowks.com/spotify/ http://billyfowks.com/spotify/ which pretty much contains the full day's playlist

teoucsb82 11y ago
Ah, nice... Is this the compiled, "All KCRW" music list (outside of MBE?). Mine is meant just to cover MBE, not "all the stuff", trying to understand where your tracklists are built from -- are you building them on the fly/programmatically based off historical/most played data? For instance, your Fri 3/4/16 playlist doesn't seem to have the MBE playlist in there, but maybe I'm missing something? Cool stuff either way, actually found yours via Google while researching my own ;)
- fowkswe 11y ago
  Thanks! I'm pulling the day's songs via the API: http://tracklist-api.kcrw.com/Simulcast/date/2016/03/04?page_size=100&page=1 http://tracklist-api.kcrw.com/Simulcast/date/2016/03/04?page... etc, and creating a playlist out of those. I'm parsing the artist/ song names pretty crudely, so I think it drops some. I thought they were folding all shows during the day into that list, but maybe I'm wrong?
  - teoucsb82 11y ago
    Ah, yeah, that's the same API I'm tapping into (just setting the time to `9:00` to capture the MBE playlist only. Had to do some Spotify OAuthing to get it working so you can save a playlist locally with a single click, but I might steal -- "borrow" -- some of your UI ;) Good stuff, again! Also, fowkswe, you cool if I add a link to your site from mine?
    - fowkswe 11y ago
      Feel free to use the same UI trick - I 'borrowed' it from the guy who made http://pitchify.com http://pitchify.com I'd love it if you put a link! I'll do the same :).