Get audio features from spotify

[flovanc]

hello, i'm a Home DJ who use beets for tag music with mostly beatport plugin and thanks for this great feature .

Since i have discover http://www.playlistmachinery.com/ i use these tools for adding tag like Genre, Energy, Danceability and Valence in the comment section of id3 for help me to make smooth playlist for my DJ software "traktor"

for do this i ..

• in 1 add music in "to tag"playlist inside spotify

• in 2 open http://organizeyourmusic.playlistmachinery.com/#

• in 3 manually copy those tag to the comment section of id3 tag

needless to say it takes a very long time , so I'm looking for a way to automate everything.

is anyone interested in this and would like to help me implement this with the help of the spotify API ?

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/tracks/get-audio-features/

FLO

[sampsyo]

Hi! Have you seen the AcousticBrainz plugin that ships with beets? It provides another (open-source) way to get these acoustic metrics.

[flovanc]

yes it only works with musicbrainz. But in my case I use 100% the beatport plugin and forbid access to musicbrainz, because they are new releases of electronic music from beatport.

[sampsyo]

Aha, that's too bad. But it looks like the Spotify API there requires a Spotify ID—do your files have that?

[Laski]

@flovanc if your files don't have an Spotify ID you can probably import or adapt the code from https://github.com/beetbox/beets/blob/master/beetsplug/spotify.py in order to get the IDs first.

P.S: Just discovered all the data that is available in the Spotify API, thanks! Now I'm looking forward to having an automated way to import that data into my library too. Let me know how can I help you.

[flovanc]

No i don't have spotify ID inside my files because the use of beatport plugin .

But i make a import with the spotify plugin and "mb tag" are updated with spotify ID.

[flovanc]

@Laski thanks for the help, you should know that my programming level is close to zero. I am already happy to be able to install beets and configure it.

But I am relatively curious and I discovered spotipy

https://spotipy.readthedocs.io/en/2.12.0/

Can be that can be useful to us

Flo

[rhlahuja]

I implemented the Spotify plugin and can help add these audio features. Since it'll require an extra API call per track, perhaps we should separate this into a subcommand rather than grab this additional metadata by default on beet import?

[flovanc]

Sounds like a good idea to me. is there the possibility to keep the initial ID coming from (musicbrainz, plugin:discogs, plugin:beatport) to allow the use of plugin as mbsync (in my case use of bpsync) in the future? And where to add these "audio feature"?

[rhlahuja]

Hmm that might be possible if we add separate database fields for Spotify IDs, similar to those added for Discogs. Perhaps @sampsyo or someone else may have a better suggestion.

And like the AcousticBrainz plugin, I was thinking these audio features would be stored as item-level attributes.

[sampsyo]

Sure! Storing the Spotify ID in a flexible attribute seems like a perfectly good idea.

[flovanc]

Hello, I'm the only one interested in this feature. Unfortunately my lack of coding experience prevents me from doing anything, but I thought it would have interested more people.

Flo

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