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by laserbeam 1398 days ago
You actually have access to some pretty powerful search queries. Only a subset of them are used in the default client. You can search by energy level, by danceability, if songs are more likely to contain lyrics...

However. If the goal of this is to not miss out on artists you already know... Then it's simply a competitor to the "release radar" weekly playlist.

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Hey, cool. I wonder why companies love to dumb down their recommendation engines to the point of them being barely useful when they could just let me tell them what I'm looking for.
> You actually have access to some pretty powerful search queries. Only a subset of them are used in the default client. You can search by energy level, by danceability, if songs are more likely to contain lyrics...

I've looked at the API reference [1] and couldnt find any of the stuff you mentioned, am I looking in the wrong place?

[1](https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...)