artist.tools
artist.tools
Apr 11

Playlist sync shows outdated data

Uh make this vibe coded site better... like idk you're already using the Spotify API, you should be able to display real time changes. I click update on a curator 5 times in the last 24 hours, can manually visit and see that songs have been added to their playlists in that time, and your interface tells me the last track was added three days ago. It's really bad.
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changed status toCompleted·Apr 22, 2026
Apr 22, 2026

Okay, this is what we've done to counter this. When updating a curator, we now update up to 200 of their largest playlists (which will update the Track Changes section, as per your comment here). In our dataset, 99.2% of curators have less than 200 playlists, so this should cover almost every case. In the rare case a curator has more than 200 playlists, we'll update their top 200.

Apr 17, 2026

Can you link me the curator? Curator updates and playlist updates are not connected, so an update on a curator does not also update their playlists. That's a choice we made given that some curators have 80,000+ playlists and we can't update that in 5 seconds immediately. What's a better approach here? Are you looking at the curators "Track Changes"?