Image for User Preset Playlists

[m4tthall73]

Hi,

I have been starting to set-up the card with some user presets that provide convenient access to my favourite playlists. This seems to work fine but wondering if it is possible to have the playlist image from spotify rather than link to an image file? I am assuming not, as I am sure this would have been an option you'd have started with but thought I should ask just in case.

Thanks for your work on this, it's much appreciated.

userPresets:
  - name: Discover Weekly
    subtitle: Various Artists
    image_url: >-
      https://dailymix-images.scdn.co/v2/img/ab6761610000e5ebcd3f796bd7ea49ed7615a550/1/en/default 
    uri: spotify:playlist:37i9dQZEVXcJTzKEkDXCQB
    type: playlist

[thlucas1]

@m4tthall73
Hi Matt - Unfortunately, that is not possible since the presets are defined via code (e.g. no UI editor). By design, these are meant to be entered as a "one-time" setup kind of thing and not really touched after that (unless you delete them). Hence not a lot of effort on my part went into maintaining them.

The playlist image can easily be obtained via the Spotify Web API Get Playlist endpoint (see form screenshot example below). Just enter the playlist ID value and press the "Try It" button. This will return a bunch of meta data for the playlist, of which the "images" collection has the link(s) to the cover art. The only problem with this is that the Spotify image link(s) are hosted by a CDN provider, which means that they could potentially change. This does not happen very often, but is a possibility.

For example, the "Discover Weekly" playlist id is 37i9dQZEVXcJTzKEkDXCQB, and the image for it is https://newjams-images.scdn.co/image/ab676477000033ad/dt/v3/discover-weekly/aAbca4VNfzWuUCQ_FGiEFA==/bmVuZW5lbmVuZW5lbmVuZQ==.

Spotify Web API Get Playlist screenshot example

Another idea would be to add an action menu item to "Copy Playlist Image URL to clipboard", which would allow you to easily grab the image url via the search UI. I can have that added in the next release.

[thlucas1]

@m4tthall73
Hi Matt - I just released the v1.0.12 of the SpotifyPlus Card that helps with the user-preset issue that you mentioned. I created a new action menu item for each content type (artist, album, track, playlist, podcast, audiobook) that allows you to "Copy Playlist Preset Info to Clipboard"

When clicked, it formats a userPreset entry and stores it on the clipboard; the contents can then be pasted into the code editor under the userPresets: configuration key. Here's what the clipboard contents look like for the screen capture above:

  - name: Seventh Day Slumber
    subtitle: playlist
    image_url: https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2734bfd0e91bf806bc73d736cfd
    uri: spotify:playlist:6G3tdA7sE2LVUzgZtj1Z2R
    type: playlist

I am trying to find a way to automatically update the configuration when the menu-item is clicked (rather than the copy / paste clipboard route), but there have been some difficulties doing that. I haven't given up on it, but it's going to take some time and thought to get it to work I think.

Anyway, thought you would want to know.