I made a web player for the Herb Sundays playlist series.

It's focused on surfacing a random playlist from the series. I've been using it to put something on in the morning. It's nice to have hand-curated playlists with some intention to them.

It works because all the playlists are already added to Spotify by the Herb Sundays folks. I wanted something where I didn't need to wade through all the other Spotify UI to get to them.

Unfortunately you need a Spotify premium account and for me to add you to an approved users list to use it.

It was partly an experiment in trying to use AI coding capabilities (mainly Claude) to build something I might not have taken the time to otherwise. I generated a lot of the server code to deal with the Spotify API. I coded most of the frontend because I enjoy that. I use it on my phone as a PWA.

There are a lot of weird states to a Spotify player. Especially with how it connects to devices. Having got a decent base for that I now want to try and make some other specialized music-playing apps.