how to 'use' spotify?

[Richard For Ponies]

It has spotify listed as a supported music streamer, I have an account, paid even , but how do I get my music from spotify to play in beat-hazard? XD I have it selected and all that.

[Starg]

Click on 'Arcade' from the main menu and use the 'Open Mic' option. The game will then listen in on any music playing on your system.

[Richard For Ponies]

Originally posted by Starg:

Click on 'Arcade' from the main menu and use the 'Open Mic' option. The game will then listen in on any music playing on your system.

no no, i figured that much out, but what i wanna know is how to get my collection 'from' spotify into beat-hazard, like to build a galaxy.

[Starg]

It's not allowed for a commercial game to use the Spotify API without a licence, which is what the would have to do to read your music list.

The only way to do it is for me to write a free app that saves the list in text format and for the game to then read that list.

However, you can build galaxies really quickly by adding your favourite artists and using the buttons to add similar artists and/or similar genres.

[Richard For Ponies]

Ahhh, i understand then XD and unfortunate. I was hoping to just import my playlist to make a galaxy without the padding of hundreds if not thousands of songs I didn't want XD

But I shall make do!

[LennardF1989]

Originally posted by Starg:

The only way to do it is for me to write a free app that saves the list in text format and for the game to then read that list.

I think a "Cloud Music" library rather than just local files would be a great addition. I guess all it would need (at the very least) is an Artist, a Title (and maybe Album) and a URL to open for the open mic functionality.

If you would then define a simple JSON format to provide this data in bulk and allow it to be imported in-game... Someone else unrelated to you as a developer might just maybe make a tool to get the data from other streaming services *cough*.