Spoqify - un-personalize your Spotify playlists with two keystrokes!
Spoqify
make Song Radio fun again!
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Ever find yourself in a musical Groundhog Day?
Spotify
heavily personalizes<br>auto-generated playlists like Song Radio based on the music you've<br>listened to in the past. But sometimes you want to listen to Song<br>Radio precisely to hear some fresh songs outside of your<br>habitual listening realm!
Spoqify is a dead-simple service that allows you to<br>access Spotify playlists like an anonymous user. Just replace the<br>t with a q in a Spotify playlist URL and<br>you will be forwarded to an anonymized version of that playlist:
Alternatively, paste a playlist URL into this form:
Anonymize!
Not using the web player?
If you're using the native Spotify app, it can be cumbersome to<br>extract the song radio URLs from the app and to navigate to the<br>anonymized playlist after running them through Spoqify.
Spicetify<br>is a tool that allows you to customize the official Spotify client,<br>and with its
AnonymizedRadios<br>extension you can use Spoqify's anonymization without ever leaving<br>the app!
How does it work?
Very simply (this was a fun weekend project). Once you submit a<br>request, Spoqify will:
Open the playlist (on our server) without sending any session<br>cookies (similar to the Private Window feature of your<br>web browser)
Extract the Spotify IDs of all the songs contained in that<br>playlist
Use<br>Spotify's Web API to create a new playlist that contains<br>exactly the same songs
Forward you to that newly created playlist
Spoqify is<br>MIT-licensed and its<br>source code is available on GitHub.
Using Spoqify a lot?
You can help make it obsolete! Spotify's community outreach includes<br>an<br>Ideas Exchange, and requests to disable personalization pop up<br>there<br>every now and then. Using Spoqify could become unnecessary if<br>enough users signal interest in a setting to disable personalization.