setlist.fm to Spotify Playlist Converter

- Settings are finally stored locally (only took a year lol)
- Split Tapes setting into Main and Foreign Tapes
- Made attaching an image an optional setting

Hey there!

Thanks for this, it worked great for me with a Depeche Mode concert from last October. - A software engineering and big music nerd

Maybe 11,000 playlists is the limit? It's not creating playlists for me today. Seems like it's recognizing the songs but after “Creating playlist” nothing happens. I've tried an obscure setlist and then a Muse setlist from 2023 and the same thing happened.

Well, usually I copy them to my own playlist because I just use them as a starter and then add a few more songs found on recent playlists but not on the one I used with your script.

Not ideal, but a few ideas (all involve deleting):
1) I don't suppose the Spotify API lets you see when a playlist was last played/accessed, does it? If it does, maybe use that to clear them.
2) I guess most people use this as concert preparation and not as a “souvenir”? If so, concerts are usually scheduled not much more than a year in advance, at most, and even that is just for the most popular artists. So maybe playlists of artists with over 10M (Pearl Jam – 13M, Muse – 15M, The Strokes – 15M) followers should expire after 13 months and less than that after maybe 8 months. Or just all of them after 13 months, for simplicity, if it still helps. It's not a very scalable solution but might be enough for realistic future scenarios?
3) I don't know if you can know who's using the playlist, but assuming (very possibly wrong) it's just the one who submitted, you could get contact details when creating a playlist and notify them before deleting. I don't love that option for multiple reasons.
4) Mainly for future playlists, but also for existing ones – prefix them with “⚠⚠⚠” and note about expiration in description/title (might not have enough characters if there's a limit). Also, when creating playlists, let users know about expiration. Perhaps suggest they copy to their own profile. Maybe it's also possible with the API to have it created in/copied to a logged in profile instead of your own account?
5) I suppose you already don't create duplicates if multiple people ask for the same setlist, but in case you don't – maybe that's possible (if you make the names/descriptions unique per setlist so you won't have to store the URL if you don't already).

Anyway, that's what I could think of now. Odd limit, 11000.

Sure! Thanks for doing this, and I think your solution is good enough for most users.

Hmmm… and now it fails for a few setlists that I've tried including one that previously worked. This one failed:
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-rubens/2024/northcote-theatre-melbourne-australia-63506a3f.html

According to the error message it's either:

1. Setlist not found on setlist.fm – However, it does exist.
2. More than half the songs not found on Spotify – but they are on Spotify and it happened for other setlists too.
3. Spotify API is down – I tried a few times over a period of ~30 minutes. I couldn't find any reports of the API being down and I don't know how to check. The status page mentioned here https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2020-07-14-web-api-status-page seems to have some certificate issues. Here there's a mention of deprecated support for some TLS versions, but it happened about a week ago.

So… I don't know.

Don't they notify of such changes? Unless it's a bug though.

I'd think to try to only go to concerts where the artist name and song titles are all very unique, but surprisingly it doesn't work for ABBA's “Chiquitita”.

Is Spotify somewhat responsive regarding API issues?