With the inclusion of thousands of songs in the last update, it became increasingly difficult to try and see the acclaimed order of the songs on artist pages.
I just discovered something that could be a solution to this! Every song on Spotify has a unique url, and in addition to embedded playlists of albums, playlists and individual tracks (that we have BBcodes for in this forum), it is possible to embed tracksets. The trackset function is an alternative to playlists, where you make a list of track urls instead of making a playlist and then use the playlist url.
Tracksets are usually not convenient compared to playlists, but with a url to every song available on Spotify, I will be able to build in these track urls into my programs and automatically create webpages with ordered song lists. I don't need to make a single playlist! And even those who are not Spotify users will be able to view the song order!
If you're interested in seeing how this might look, I have added trackset lists on Madness and Madonna's artist pages. If you have visited these pages before (at least lately), you need to reload those frames.
Ordered Spotify playlist on each artist's page!
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Re: Ordered Spotify playlist on each artist's page!
Strangely enough I had just recently visited the Madness page. What's wrong with me? Anyway, it looks kick-ass to me.
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That's called telepathical madnessRocky Raccoon wrote:What's wrong with me?
Looks great, Henrik!
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Agreed - very cool!
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Yes, it's a very welcome addition.
Re: Ordered Spotify playlist on each artist's page!
I love this addition too! I actually thought about how neat it would be to see the songs ordered by critical acclaim the last few days. So this is definitely greatly appreciated!