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Idea: Add Spotify Codes
What do you think about the idea to add Spotify Codes?
https://www.spotifycodes.com/index.html
Hm, I just see "Not Found" when I visit this URL 🤔
What are Spotify Codes?
Hm, I just see "Not Found" when I visit this URL 🤔
Damn you have to remove the index.html https://www.spotifycodes.com
What are Spotify Codes?
Codes from Spotify to open songs, playlists, etc. See the website.
Ah, thanks for the clarification! 👍 Didn't know this.
Unfortunately this looks like proprietary bar code format. I didn't find a technical specification or description, and while it's probably possible to reverse engineer how it works, the question is why bother? 😉 What could it be good for to read this bar code? 🤔
I am not saying we need this, or don't need this. I just found the format interesting and searched if someone reversed it:
https://github.com/ozgecinko/SpotifyCodeGenerator
Medium post explaining the barcode format, archived for convenience:
https://github.com/boonepeter/boonepeter.github.io/blob/master/content/posts/spotify-codes-part-2.md
https://archive.ph/pQHa1
https://archive.ph/XBlVt
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62121301/encoding-spotify-uri-to-spotify-codes/63479041#63479041
What could it be good for to read this bar code?
Allow me to joke, the purpose of these codes is, of course to force people use the proprietary app to get the URI instead of free ones ;)
Thanks for the links! Really interesting! 🤔
However, this is probably more for ZXingCpp, the barcode library this app is using 😉
@axxel would you be interested in this?
Thanks for pinging me. Before I saw the link list, I was hunting for some information myself and also ended up at
- https://boonepeter.github.io/posts/2020-11-10-spotify-codes/ and
- https://boonepeter.github.io/posts/spotify-codes-part-2/
But understanding that even if you ended up detecting and decoding the barcode, you'd still only get the "meadia reference" number which you can only translate into a spotify URI with an active account and an online lookup in their database. So decoding this in zxing-cpp does not sound very useful at all to me. Bottom line: I'll not invest any time in this. ;)
@axxel Thanks for taking a look anyway! I can't see how that media reference number would be useful, too.