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Unidentify

A website that finds obscure songs matching the genres of artists in your Spotify playlist.

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What are obscure songs?

Obscure songs are the songs returned from searching using Spotify Web API's tag:hipster parameter, which searches for songs with the lowest 10% popularity.

Note that some songs in popular genres (ex. pop, rap) might not be obscure at all...

   

Why do some of the artists not have genres?

Some artists (especially less-popular/new ones) have not had their genre tags set on Spotify.

   

Why doesn't Unidentify use the user's top information instead?

This Spotify API app is on Development Mode, meaning that it can only allow up to 25 users to be authenticated and they have to be specifically registered on the API dashboard. To set the API to extended quota mode where it can allow more people to be freely authenticated, it must be reviewed and hobby projects like these are not allowed to use extended quota mode.

Instead, this main branch uses a playlist as input so that user authentication isn't required and anyone can use it. See the user-auth branch for how this app would work using user information.

Limits of the Spotify Web API

  • Genres are tied to the artist, not the specific song itself.

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