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!