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Playlists should be for saving songs, radio should be for
discovery.
Spotify's radio algorithm traps you in a
narrow musical space where they torture you with the same 50
tracks over and over again. Their curated playlists are just tired
old songs reimagined in a different order, and finding a
playlist-creator with good taste is a entire journey in itself.
Radionewify provides an alternative.
"Never listened
to before" means "never any song that is...":
- In your playlists (except for the radio(s) generated immediately after you log in — it takes time to
extract all the tracks. There's also a limit of 100 000 tracks, to keep my database from crashing)
- In your 'liked songs'
- One of the 50 most recently played
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One of the 50 most listened to long-, medium-, and short-term
- Played since you've connected to this app
The recommendations are also not based on your previous listening
patterns, and their "max popularity index" is 60.
The
reason the app jumps through all of these convoluted hoops is that
Spotify doesn't provide the user's entire listening history.
Note: Radionewify works for both free and premium Spotify accounts — but it won't
automatically start playing the generated radio for free accounts. (Spotify's API restriction, not my
fault!)
Contact: If you want to request a feature or think you've found a bug, feel free
to contact me at [email protected].
Privacy policy: All tracks in your playlists, most listened to, and most recently played
are collected and saved in a database, which is used to determine what tracks to avoid.
I also save your Spotify account ID and access token, which are needed to add the songs you've played since
you connected to the app to the database.
I don't collect name, email, nor will publicly release or sell the data in any way. The database is private
and password-locked.
See the auto-generated "formal" privacy policy here.
