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Ever find yourself in a musical Groundhog Day?

Spotify

heavily personalizes
auto-generated playlists like Song Radio based on the music you’ve
listened to in the past. But sometimes you want to listen to Song
Radio precisely to hear some fresh songs outside of your
habitual listening realm!

Spoqify is a dead-simple service that allows you to
access Spotify playlists like an anonymous user. Just replace the
t with a q in a Spotify playlist URL and
you will be forwarded to an anonymized version of that playlist:

Alternatively, paste a playlist URL into this form:

How does it work?

Very simply (this was a fun weekend project). Once you submit a
request, Spoqify will:

1. Open the playlist (on our server) without sending any session
   cookies (similar to the Private Window feature of your
   web browser)
2. Extract the Spotify IDs of all the songs contained in that
   playlist
3. Use
   Spotify’s Web API to create a new playlist that contains
   exactly the same songs
4. Forward you to that newly created playlist

Spoqify is
MIT-licensed and its
source code is available on GitHub.

Using Spoqify a lot?

You can help make it obsolete! Spotify’s community outreach includes
an
Ideas Exchange, and requests to disable personalization pop up
there
every now and then. Using Spoqify could become unnecessary if
enough users signal interest in a setting to disable personalization.