Spotify: Get track popularity from Spotify

[arsaboo]

Track popularity is probably one of the most important attributes. Spotify directly provides popularity information in its Tracks API. I am surprised that we don't import this attribute, given that we already are using the Tracks API. Wondering if this is just an oversight or something that we should implement. I saw an older thread where @sampsyo agreed to include Spotify-specific attributes.

Proposed solution

Retrieve track popularity from Spotify and include it along with other tags.

Objective

Get track popularity information to enable discovery.

Goals

Create better playlists and recommendations.

[sampsyo]

Sounds very reasonable! And hopefully shouldn't be too hard to do.

[arsaboo]

I am not a Python expert, but would gladly help anyone willing to work on this.

[SophiaP31]

Can I work on this?

[sampsyo]

Sounds awesome, both of y'all!

[arsaboo]

@SophiaP31 That will be great. I cannot wait for Beets to have this feature. Let me know if you need any help testing things.

[happiestbee]

Would I be able to work on this as well?

[arsaboo]

@happiestbee absolutely…feel free to create a PR. If you can get something in, it may be easy to her things going 👍

[arsaboo]

closed via https://github.com/beetbox/beets/pull/4352