Songskipper

Skip songs on Spotify

Use Case

When playing random songs from artists, albums, playlists, etc. once in a while an unexpected live version or specific song interrupts the flow.

This application polls the currently playing song and skips it, if it matches a rule. Rules can be based on album, artist and/or song titles.

Demo

I am working on it. If you want to test the demo please send me a mail with the email address you use for Spotify, so I can add you as a test user.

It only works with premium accounts.

Screenshots

• Currently Playing screen\
• Create new rule from track\
• Rules screen\
• Playlog screen\

Why does it exist

• To skip songs I don't wan't to hear
• To learn about technologies that I wanted to try ;-)

Development

Repo structure

• The backend in songskipper-backend is a Spring Boot application (mainly written in Kotlin)
• The frontend in songskipper-frontend is a React App using MaterialUI and Redux Toolkit with RTK query.
• The communication between backend and frontend use REST endpoints under /api and websockets with STOMP
• In the combined gradle build, the frontend is compiled with node as a standard react app and the generated files are added to the generated jar file of the backend as static resources.

Build

1. Register the application at https://developer.spotify.com/ to get a client id and secret
2. Copy the file songskipper-backend/src/main/resources/application-secrets.yml.template, remove the .template extension and enter your client id and secret
3. Build it: ./gradlew build
4. Run it: java -jar songskipper-backend/build/libs/songskipper-backend-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
5. Open it in the browser: http://localhost:8080/

Development server for frontend

1. Launch the backend (with java -jar ... or with ./gradlew bootRun).
2. Launch the frontend as dev-server: /gradlew nodeStart or npm start from songskipper-frontend
3. Open it in the browser: http://localhost:3000/

This version notices file changes and reloads the frontend when needed.

You might need to sign in by accessing the backend version directly.

License

Not yet decided. Please send me a message if you want to use it.

This is private project and is not related to Spotify.