Spotify
Spotify is an audio streaming and media services provider.
Recofinement uses spotify to listen to music, but also to retrieve user preferences.
The user can link his spotify account to Recofinement.
What is used
Recofinement retrieves on each connection:
- the top 20 music listened to by the user,
- the last 20 pieces of music listened to,
- the music from the first 20 playlists
How to enable this feature
To make these features work, you can follow this guide:
- Create a Spotify user account (Premium or Free). To do that, simply sign up at http://www.spotify.com/
- Register your application (Recofinement) at Register app page and retrieve your client id and client secret.
Hint
You must define the following two variables in the .env file of the API.
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID=<SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID>
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET=<SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET>