We’ve now seen that not only can Spotify be a powerful discovery mechanism, but is actually enabling totally independent artists to earn a substantial income from the platform.īut this isn’t happening from the traditional ways that an artist grew a music career. The only problem? They were so, so wrong. They claimed that Spotify was devaluing music, was going to prevent artists from being able to make a living, and no one was going to make any money off of the paltry amount that Spotify pays per stream. old people), were wreaking havoc on every outlet they could: NPR, Billboard, Trichorist, you name it. I know I know, this is totally counter-intuitive based on all the headlines you’ve read since Spotify launched in the US about 6 years ago. It has proven to be one of the most powerful tools at, wait for it, making money in the digital age. For example, you could change a playlist's title, description, or privacy status.For the past few years the industry has been obsessed with Spotify.Īnd rightfully so. For example, you can retrieve all playlists that the authenticated user owns, or you can retrieve one or more playlists by their unique IDs. The API supports the following methods for playlists resources: list Returns a collection of playlists that match the API request parameters. You can also add or remove items from those lists by calling the playlistItems.insert and lete methods. You can then use the playlistItems.list method to retrieve any of those lists.

You can retrieve the playlist IDs for each of these lists from the channel resource for a given channel. To be more specific, these lists are associated with a channel, which is a collection of a person, group, or company's videos, playlists, and other YouTube information. YouTube also uses playlists to identify special collections of videos for a channel, such as: By default, playlists are publicly visible to other users, but playlists can be public or private. A playlist is a collection of videos that can be viewed sequentially and shared with other users. A playlist resource represents a YouTube playlist.

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