That could provide a start for creating a custom playlist, but we’d still have to fill out the rest of the playlist manually, as before. For example, when we tested the app with an image for this upcoming Hopscotch Music Festival featuring colorful, bubbly-lettered artist names in varying sizes, the app was only able to recognize a small handful of the artists on the poster. Unfortunately, we found the app struggled with atypical fonts and was not always able to identify all the artists on some posters. In this clip I create a 38hr playlist of the lineup in less than a minute /1sCV0lyIGB
And while the app requires users to have a Spotify account, you won’t have to be a Spotify Premium subscriber to take advantage of its features. In addition to Spotify’s API, LineupSupply uses Apple’s Vision Framework to extract the text from the music poster’s image, which is then matched to artists’ names and transformed into a music playlist. The app currently supports images with text in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese or Chinese, and all the image scanning is done locally on your own device. You can then upload a music festival poster image to the app to get started building your first playlist. Upon first launch, you’ll have to authenticate with your Spotify credentials before getting started. Much of that time was spent waiting on Spotify to offer an API key which allows the app to work, Bauman notes. The developer began to work on the app over the summer and released the current version in late August. “This got me thinking that people are making these manually and I couldn’t find another service that automates it,” he says. The new app was built by longtime Seattle-based iOS developer Brett Bauman, currently a senior iOS engineer at Loom.īauman says he came up with the idea after searching for a Spotify playlist of the lineup at an upcoming music festival, Portola, which he plans to attend. Alternately, you can use the app to find playlists created by others or, with a one-time purchase of $1.99, tap into music recommendations based on the artists in the images you uploaded. This clever utility allows you to upload a photo of a music festival’s poster to have it automatically transformed into a Spotify playlist in a matter of moments. If you often find yourself making Spotify playlists to get hyped for an upcoming music festival or to relive a favorite past show, a new mobile app called LineupSupply can now help make that process easier.
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