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Re:Pissed off by Spotify Enshittifying more API endpoints? W... by mayhemchaos on Thursday November 28, 2024 @11:53AM (#42266736)
Today Spotify has taken away some API endpoints, leaving many users in the lurch. ListenBrainz has been working hard to create similar API endpoints and datasets, all freely available.
Re:Pissed off by Spotify Enshittifying more API endpoints? W... by MaxBarraclough on Thursday November 28, 2024 @12:19PM (#42266964)
Your profile makes it clear this is your project. I recommend also stating this explicitly in your comments, as your username doesn't suggest a connection.
Re:Pissed off by Spotify Enshittifying more API endpoints? W... by nickthegreek on Thursday November 28, 2024 @12:55PM (#42267274)
Should be Show HN:
Re:Pissed off by Spotify Enshittifying more API endpoints? W... by bix6 on Thursday November 28, 2024 @12:15PM (#42266925)
Is there a list of projects / examples that are using your APIs? Intrigued.
Re:Pissed off by Spotify Enshittifying more API endpoints? W... by ChrisArchitect on Thursday November 28, 2024 @12:44PM (#42267202)
Related:

Spotify has shut down several API endpoints

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42260481

Re:Pissed off by Spotify Enshittifying more API endpoints? W... by BostonFern on Thursday November 28, 2024 @01:01PM (#42267308)
How does your artist similarity algorithm work?

Any plans to include the feature on artist pages on MusicBrainz?

Re:Pissed off by Spotify Enshittifying more API endpoints? W... by mr_monkey on Friday November 29, 2024 @09:23AM (#42274065)
Artist similarity is calculated from the listening history of all users. Basically if many people listen to artist X and artist Y within a short window of time, that counts towards their similarity score. Also artists that appear together on compilation albums also counts for similarity, but to a lesser degree.

In the near future we want to add more data from MusicBrainz, for an easy example band members being part of other bands = they are probably similar.

All of this is available on ListenBrainz, but will most likely not be surfaced on the MusicBrainz pages which have a different —more factual— focus.

Re:Pissed off by Spotify Enshittifying more API endpoints? W... by ko3us on Saturday November 30, 2024 @07:42AM (#42281260)
Do you have endpoints for song features and song analysis?