I automated my 3,163-song music library with Spotify's API. Then Spotify killed the API.
Context When I was first learning to code, I built Apollo — a desktop music player that could download songs and show you their lyrics. It worked, and I kept it. But the real project turned out to be the library around it: over the years I accumulated 3,163 mp3s, and my folder of one-off scripts grew into a small ecosystem that downloaded music, embedded lyrics, found duplicates, and eventually…
When the author first learned to code, they created Apollo, a desktop music player that downloaded songs and displayed their lyrics. Over time, the author amassed 3,163 MP3s and developed an intricate system of scripts that downloaded music, embedded lyrics, identified duplicates, and automatically organized songs based on Spotify's audio analysis. However, Spotify later deprecated the very API that powered this system, rendering the author's automated library useless.
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