Jose M. Perez
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Spotify iQuiz — Reviving an old project

Spotify iQuiz — Reviving an old project

Dec 13, 2020

This is that time of the year, when all Spotify users get their much expected Wrapped. This year's "Your 2020 Wrapped" came with the usual top songs, artists, podcasts, and genres, but also quizzes about your music collection.

Back in 2014 I coded a Spotify quiz web app called Spotify iQuiz that I coded at a Music Hack Day event while working at Spotify. It was a fun way to showcase browser's speech synthesizer (text to voice) combined with questions about your library and 30 second previews of the songs.

During this week, visits to Spotify iQuiz surged as lots of people searched for "Spotify quiz" probably searching for the Wrapped site.

I logged in and discover that music didn't play. It took me some time until I realized that a few years ago Spotify's Web API started requiring access tokens for all the requests, and I wasn't including it in the requests to fetch specific tracks.

I fixed it and took the opportunity to make a few more changes in the code to keep up with the times and make future changes easier to apply and deploy. It also became easier for folks that want to have a look at the code or fork the project.

Give it a try and let me know what you think. Only desktop browsers are supported due to technical limitations. I don't plan to make major changes in the project, but happy to hear your feedback!

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