I often think about how HIVE blockchain can be used effectively, in addition to all the social media we have here so far. We have the option of simply storing text in the blockchain and reading it out again at the end. And that's actually the biggest use case for HIVE, if you ask me. I'll keep thinking about how best to use it.
A few weeks ago, I thought to myself... how can I conveniently view my Spotify playback history? I use Spotify every day and would like to extract some interesting statistics from it... What always blows me away and impresses me is the annual overview that Spotify gives me every year. Well, I like coding in my spare time and music. So I thought, why not save my history of played songs on HIVE as custom_json. No sooner said than done! In Google Ai Studio, I created a small piece of software that displays and processes my daily plays. (Work in progress).
To bring the whole thing to the HIVE blockchain, I also set up a HIVE sync that synchronizes the most recently played songs with the HIVE blockchain every 30 minutes while the app is running. The whole thing looks something like this.
{
"app": "spotify-history-sync/1.0",
"action": "recently_played",
"tracks": [
{
"name": "Way down We Go",
"artist": "KALEO",
"album": "A/B",
"played_at": "2026-02-26T22:23:22.961Z",
"url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/0y1QJc3SJVPKJ1OvFmFqe6"
},
{
"name": "Run No More",
"artist": "KALEO",
"album": "MIXED EMOTIONS",
"played_at": "2026-02-26T22:19:26.298Z",
"url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/4M5BOn53S0p9wTRHzNARWA"
},
{
"name": "Feel Good Inc.",
"artist": "Gorillaz, De La Soul",
"album": "Demon Days",
"played_at": "2026-02-26T22:13:37.544Z",
"url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/0d28khcov6AiegSCpG5TuT"
},
{
"name": "Notion",
"artist": "Tash Sultana",
"album": "Notion",
"played_at": "2026-02-26T18:03:37.085Z",
"url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/6TLGmbTgp7hJ7jsDTTHRzw"
},
{
"name": "Mulberry Street",
"artist": "Twenty One Pilots",
"album": "Scaled And Icy",
"played_at": "2026-02-26T17:57:55.975Z",
"url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/19kX6hSlYH31js2SL4jgrj"
},
{
"name": "Hallucinogenics",
"artist": "Matt Maeson",
"album": "Bank On The Funeral",
"played_at": "2026-02-26T17:54:10.808Z",
"url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/6bLU8e0LGyztE9iD5DWBQ1"
},
{
"name": "Bloodline",
"artist": "Alex Warren, Jelly Roll",
"album": "You'll Be Alright, Kid",
"played_at": "2026-02-26T17:51:02.808Z",
"url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/2qPQcfUgizNDOIv1orkTAd"
},
{
"name": "Wet Sand",
"artist": "Red Hot Chili Peppers",
"album": "Stadium Arcadium",
"played_at": "2026-02-26T17:48:00.555Z",
"url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/3L2Nyi3T7XabH8EEZFLDdX"
},
{
"name": "Refuge",
"artist": "Dermot Kennedy",
"album": "Refuge",
"played_at": "2026-02-26T17:42:50.079Z",
"url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/0cVITrJKWy47OkoU1KGhDa"
},
{
"name": "Paradise",
"artist": "Stick Figure",
"album": "Wisdom",
"played_at": "2026-02-26T17:39:11.262Z",
"url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/3iyMN5JhGnJXvKvFr8Mf7S"
}
]
}
Listen to Kaleo ;) Good Music - Love it!
I'll keep an eye on this and maybe take it out of Google Studio soon and run it on Vercel. Unfortunately, you have to get a developer token from Spotify so you can read the songs via API... So unfortunately, it's not for the masses. Just nerdy stuff ;)
See ya and rock on!
that s awesome, now you dont need to wait spotfy send you some stats
You are getting me thinking that we could build an alternative to last.fm on Hive. I have had that collecting my music listening across Spotify, Youtube and what I play on my PC for years, but all the data is in their systems. If it were on the blockchain then I would own it forever. last.fm have their own API that you can use for non-commercial purposes.
I know some people say that blockchain is not a great way to store data, but it has some advantages.
Are you worried people will criticise your taste in music? 😆
Awww... I was already getting excited. I thought for a moment it was like a Spotify based on Hive. I LOVE music too, but I HATE ads, so I prefer listening to it the traditional way. 😅
Still pretty cool if you are into tracking that sort of thing!
Wow realy interesting! I never know we can do such thing in Hive.
I’m curious, on the Hive end, it will display the data as a post?
That's so cool! Sadly or not, I've always been a YouTube Music fan, so I am still waiting for it to be implemented in so many status updates are used for Spotify these days, such as Discord, Instagram story, etc
Not clear yet with that, but I have five playlists on Spotify, I've compiled there my #newtunes posts, I mean songs from posts for each year, maybe this should be useful?
Eso suena interesante aunque aun no entiendo ni una pisca eso de programación y api, quizás más adelante pueda agarrar un tiempo para estudiar acerca de ese tema
But I think it's gross misuse of the technology to store something so trivial as that. What value does it add to store music history on blockchain rather than on scrobbling service like last.FM or libre.FM?
I get that it's fun, but I really can't see more benefits in comparison to scrobbling services. What are the consequences of storing that data on blockchain?
I dont know those last.fm or libr.fm stuff