Summary
Discover music in other languages.
Music streaming services such as Spotify, YouTube and many others have long had recommendation systems to suggest similar music to a user’s taste. However, none of these providers have an out-of-the-box feature where it is possible to provide recommendations of songs in languages different than a user’s profile setting, or different than the language of the songs the user is currently playing or has played recently.
This project collects various playlists from Spotify to generate a list of hip-hop tracks in various languages, and uses clustering methods to recommend hip-hop music in other languages to a user. Within the hip-hop genre, there are still numerous styles that may not appeal to everyone.
Run
For running the data collection script, ensure Spotify client credentials are available as environment variables.
export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID = <client_id>
export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET = <client_secret>
python data-collection/get_spotify_data.py
Running the get_spotify_data.py script will generate a csv file multilang_playlist.csv with songs from the defined playlists in the script.