Tagalong:
January ‘23-May ‘23
Re-discover your library, fall in love with your songs again.
I started developing TagAlong at the beginning of 2023 to deal with the problem of overloaded song storage. As a musician and music lover, Spotify is my go-to app for all times of the day.
However, I’ve never felt happy with the experience. Spotify centers discovery, but with over 4000 songs saved between my Liked Songs, playlists, and saved albums, I don’t need to discover. I need to sort my collection.
While I can search songs and see them in my Liked songs, the songs in my playlists remain hidden unless I search through every playlist. These disparate collections lead to the majority of my songs going unheard and eventually forgotten.
Enter TagAlong. TagAlong uses tags to generate playlists on the fly. It first grabs the genres for each song from Spotify API when you sign in, and makes tags from those genres and artists. From there, the website is a playground for you to create tags, delete any songs you don’t feel belong under a tag, and then eventually create playlists from one or multiple tags.
Design Process
My first iteration is deployed (please email me to add you to the approved users). Here is a demo video that demonstrates some of the functionality:
After a few rounds of user testing and paper prototyping, I set out to create a UI that required no explaining to understand the purpose of the website. Here is a look at the updated UI!
Tech Specs: The website is built in React with a database created with Firebase. The website is hosted using Firebase hosting. I am using the Spotify API to grab a user’s library information and song details.
Unfortunately, I paused work on this to focus on my startup, Azuryne, and have not returned to it just yet.