spotify-library-backup
WIP
I love the convenience of Spotify, but hate not being able to manage my own music library. There are a few annoying things about the Spotify "Your Library": most notably, there's a 10k song limit. There are also reports of albums mysteriously disappearing from people's libraries, or libraries being lost entirely. Spotify may not be around forever. I may need to change accounts. Some bad actor may destroy all of Spotify's data centers. In any case, I've spent hundreds of hours on the music discovery process, so I have no interest in losing any of that history.
So, here's a tool to back up a Spotify library. I'd like to eventually be able to combine this with my old iTunes library, restore the library, etc. All in good time.
Requires two environment variables: SPOTIFY_ID and SPOTIFY_SECRET. Get them here.
The registered application must have a redirect URI set: http://localhost:8080/callback
Notes to self
Spotify API library: https://github.com/zmb3/spotify
Running executable: from repo root, assuming $HOME/go/bin is added to $PATH,
$ go install
$ spotify-backup
Compile and test package, from package root:
$ go build
$ go test
Effective Go: https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html