Taking a temporary departure from my usual Infrastructure/DevOps articles, this article is about “Genrify”, a Python app I’ve written to select tracks from Saved Albums or Playlists on Spotify based on Artist Genre and add them to Queue or to a new Playlist.
I got frustrated at having a Spotify library of added albums and created playlists, but not being able to query my library by genre. Basically, I wanted functionality like Smart Playlists in Apple’s Music app (previously iTunes), where it’s possible to say something like “select all songs from recently added albums where the genre is darkwave”. Therefore, with the goal in mind of being able to do something similar with my Spotify library, I created this Python 3 app called Genrify which uses Spotify’s API via the Spotipy Python library to achieve this functionality.
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