About
What is Weekly Releases?
Weekly Releases is an application that sends you an email weekly with new song and album releases from your followed artists on Spotify.
Potential seizure warning below.
Purpose
I love music.
I love to listen to music, and I explore a wide range of genres and artists. About a year ago, I found it increasingly difficult to keep track of new music releases from my favorite artists. Having stopped using social media a few years back, I lost my primary source of staying up-to-date with new releases. Often, I would discover weeks, months, or even a year later that one of my favorite artists had released a new album.
While Spotify offers the Release Radar playlist, it only features one song per artist per week, without any notification of updates. Additionally, only some artists' new albums or singles are promoted to users through emails or push notifications. So I decided to create a service that compiles a comprehensive list of songs and albums from the artists you follow and delivers it directly to your inbox, every week.
How Does it Work?
When you authorize this application through your Spotify account, you grant permission to store your Spotify account information in our database. Rest assured, we never ask for your password or other sensitive information. We only request permission to view your username, email, your followed artists, your top artists, and the ability to modify your followed artists (future features may depend on this).
Those permissions are needed for interfacing with the Spotify Web API, enabling us to retrieve your followed artists and their releases. Weekly Releases processes this data, filters for the past seven days, and sends you an email with the latest releases, every Friday morning.
Ending Service
If you would like to delete your data from our database, and discontinue use of this service follow these steps:
- Navigate to the settings page on your dashboard and review the "MANAGE YOUR DATA" section. If you're not seeing your dashboard, make sure you've authorized this app through Spotify (you can do this by navigating to SIGN ME UP → and clicking on "AUTHORIZE ON SPOTIFY").
- Review this Spotify Support article to remove authorization of this application.
Interested in Learning More?
If you'd like to delve deeper into this project or take a look at the code, please visit the application's repository on GitHub. Feel free to shoot me a direct message; I'd love to connect!