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Bill
Bill

Reputation: 1

How is a track's 30sec defined that's obtained from preview_url (Spotify Web API)?

I am interested to use an audio raw dataset provided by Spotify Web API in Python. I wonder if the audio sample follows any rules to define the 30sec provided by the preview_url.

preview_url | string | A link to a 30 second preview (MP3 format) of the track. Can be null

Is the 30sec of the track extracted from:

  1. The first 30 sec?
  2. The track after 1 minute?
  3. The track between 1-3mins?
  4. A random part of the track?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 706

Answers (1)

zunkelty
zunkelty

Reputation: 317

Spotify analyses every track and then is able to tell where different parts of the song begin and end.

I suppose that what you hear in the 30s preview is a guess that Spotify makes of what the refrain/main part of the songs is.

Therefore you can't generally say which part is chosen because that is determined by an AI for each song respectively.

Upvotes: 0

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