There are a few commercial music APIs out there: Spotify, Echo Nest (which has been acquired by Spotify), Last.fm, and Beats Music. In this tutorial, we'll see what that ("related") means in the actual machine-readable data that Spotify provides. Here's the web interface for the artists that Spotify thinks are "related" to Beyoncé: How can a program determine "relevant" music? It could start in a way similar to the way that a human might: look at the artists relevant to the given artist. Later this week I'll be posting an extra-credit assignment that involves writing a command-line script that auto-generates a playlist of relevant music, based on an artist's name provided by a user.
Joe McGauley is a senior writer for Thrillist and pretty sure there's a good reason nobody has listened to those 4 million songs.A quick introduction to a few of the useful endpoints of the Spotify music service. Sign up here for our daily Thrillist email, and get your fix of the best in food/drink/fun. If you can't settle on something specific to listen to but are in the mood for a certain genre, search genre:"Christian metal" or genre:"spy music," or practically any other genre you can imagine - there are literally thousands to choose from. For example, if you want to know who else is on Wilco and Björk's, search label:"nonesuch" and Spotify pulls up those artists. You can also search for releases from within a single year by dropping the quotation marks.Īnother cool way you can find music is to see who else is signed to your favorite bands' record labels.
Similarly, if you want to generally revisit your heady high school days, type year:"1998-2002" and it'll round up a grab bag of popular tracks from that time period. Type artist:"Bruce Springsteen" year:"1983-1985" in the search bar and Spotify will spit out a list of all the music he released in that period. Let's say you'd like to curate a playlist of Bruce Springsteen's catalog from the years '83 to '85.
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