Instafest. (Photo: Instafest/Composition/Jose Arana)
You must imagine an unlimited budget to create a A festival with all the music Spotify. Which singers or bands will the reader invite? Some of them may have already been seen live. But, of course, never together.
Now you can fantasize this idea using a web page so that users can bring together their favorite artists as if it were a festival: Instafest
Well, let’s be clear, this won’t happen in real life. All you have to do is let your imagination think of which singers and bands will come together A hypothetical festival If you had the money, contacts and organizational skills to make it happen.
Simple as it sounds. The user goes to the Instafest page, logs in with their Spotify credentials, and that’s it. The app itself is responsible for creating a festival poster that showcases the Spotify music people are listening to the most wherever they go. And so what? Well, you can share it with your friends and acquaintances Social networks.
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What permissions does Spotify’s Instafest use?
Before using this website, it’s important to clarify and be clear about what permissions Instafest would use to access each user’s Spotify (and how risky it might be).
The first permission that Instafest requires is that ‘Access your Spotify account data’. This means you will be able to read your Spotify username, profile picture and public playlists.
The second permission Instafest asks for before creating your custom festival poster is ‘View Activity on Spotify’, That is, the main content and artists that the user consumes, listens to and has in playlists the most, the number of minutes that such artists enjoy, etc.
is it dangerous In principle, No. According to Instafest’s terms of service, the information you read is not shared with third parties or stored outside of your phone. As Infobae recommends, it’s always better to prevent third parties from accessing your Spotify account and activity information.
Instafest. (Photo: Instafest/Composition/Jose Arana)
With Instafest you can imagine the festival of your dreams
Now, with the above in mind, you can proceed to create your own festival (or not). The idea is Anshai Sabu. If you want to know more about him, you can follow him Twitter. Instafest is one of those places where a simple idea goes viral because it does something different, original and fun. Basically, create Graphic poster of the festival.
With this website, users have the opportunity to choose the days of the festival, share the names of artists and groups on the poster. You also have the option to choose a publication based on the bands and music styles you usually listen to. Finally, you can christen the festival with the most personal name you like.
To do all this, you have to go The official page of Instafest Where you can see a sample poster. Then click Sign in with Spotify and enter your Spotify login details. Although this app is not official from Spotify, login can be considered safe as it is done through Spotify API.
Instafest. (Photo: Instafest/Composition/Jose Arana)
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A different way to share music from Spotify
Once the user is in the poster generator, they can select the time period of Spotify music they want to project at the festival: the last 4 weeks, the last 6 months, or always. Then choose one Three graphic styles. Finally, leave the Spotify name or change it to a unique name. Then click The rest i Share it.
Instafest, on the other hand, has its share of mystery. You can download the poster in format png share. Even if you choose to save the image directly, it can be done in a format svg Right click on the image. And if you don’t see a list of artists and bands on Spotify, it’s because you haven’t used Spotify in a while.
(Photo: Instafest)
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