Echonest API no more after May 31st 2016

[mrmaffen]

Seems like we're hitting Echonest's rate limit of 360 requests/minute. Which doesn't sound like a lot tbh. Stations stop working because of this :S @jherskowitz Maybe we can ask them to increase the rate limit for our API key?

[theli-ua]

Well, I guess this can be closed now as the API will be gone in 2 days

[theli-ua]

As of May 31st, The Echo Nest platform will no longer serve requests and developers will need to move over to the Spotify API.

[theli-ua]

Renaming this issue, its now about migrating off of echonest (anyone objects?)

[facetoe]

Does this mean the Station functionality will no longer work? When I try to create a station I get "The Echo Nest returned an error: Network Error" in the interface and:

21:53:28 [0]: libechonest threw an error trying to parse the static playlist code 9 error desc: Network Error

In the console.

[theli-ua]

Yes, station functionality no longer works On Jun 9, 2016 6:55 AM, "facetoe" notifications@github.com wrote:

Does this mean the Station functionality will no longer work? When I try to create a station I get "The Echo Nest returned an error: Network Error" in the interface and:

21:53:28 [0]: libechonest threw an error trying to parse the static playlist code 9 error desc: Network Error

In the console.

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[facetoe]

Ahh that's a real shame, it looked like an awesome feature. Do you think it will be possible to use the Spotify API for this functionality or will it be removed entirely?

[theli-ua]

I think the plan is to support a new type of plugins that generate infinite playlists. It is already supported in Android version and has reference implementation that uses Spotify api On Jun 9, 2016 08:15, "facetoe" notifications@github.com wrote:

Ahh that's a real shame, it looked like an awesome feature. Do you think it will be possible to use the Spotify API for this functionality or will it be removed entirely?

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[yurrriq]

Any updates re: using Spotify API instead of EchoNest on desktop? I'm willing to help, if I can.

[theli-ua]

@yurrriq no updates. I think way forward would be to implement support for js 'playlistgenerator' plugins like tomahawk-android does, there is already a spotify-based implementation for that

[jhdmpp]

Any chance of enabling the use of beets for this purpose?