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Spotify Naming Conventions

Good morning all,

I am working on a software that will match spotify tracks against an external databse of songs and am having some issues with the matching (mainly with Feat., Remix etc.)

Does anyone know all the naming conventions Spotify use for track names returned by the Web API?

I am also after the Artist naming conventions as although these appear to be fairly standard.

Solution

  • Those naming conventions aren't set by Spotify, but by the content provider, so there's no formal specification from Spotify.

    One way you could approach this problem is to store the track name whenever there's an error and learn (possibly even machine learn) the conventions from that data.

    Hope that helps!