Spotify-Animation

If you're looking to just use this and don't really care about what else this README has to say, just...

• Run pip install -r requirements.txt
• Change fill_color and back_color in main.py to whatever RGB colors you desire (they are defaulted to Black and Spotify Green)
• Change link in main.py to the link you want your QR Code to redirect to (e.g., your Spotify Jam link)
• Run python main.py

If you're looking to read more, thanks for your interest! Here's some more info...

What?

This is a program that creates an animation of a QR Code bouncing around a screen, with the Spotify logo in the background. The QR Code is intended to link to a Spotify Jam, where fellow listeners can add their own songs to a collaborative queue; ideally, the animation is played on a big public display (e.g., a TV) for all function attendees to access.

Why?

Whenever I hosted a function, I used Spotify on my Amazon Fire Stick (which was hooked up to a TV), but I wasn't too much of a fan for two reasons:

• It just uses Spotify's own UI, which is variable depending on the song. I thought this was a slight issue because, in a darker setting, sometimes my TV would just have a really bright screen and shift the mood a bit. I think that a simplistic box-bouncing-around UI is much more ideal.
• It doesn't have a convenient way for attendees to queue their own music. Sometimes people want to play what they like, and I think it's much easier to just have the Spoyify Jam information publicly displayed.

I admittedly drew a lot of inspiration from that one Coinbase Super Bowl ad.

How?

As you can probably tell from the code, I use pygame for the animation and qrcode and PIL for the QR Code generation and logo altering, respectively.

I've actually never used pygame before, and I used ChatGPT/LLaMa to help me a lot with this.

Who?

This is intended for everyone to use (hence it's a public repo)! Feel free to also contribute to this project by making it more computationally efficient, adding new animation styles, etc...

When?

I made this in October 2024, and a friend of mine saw it and said I should make it public. So here we are.

Where?

I'm only adding this section to complete the "5W's + How" theme. I don't really think I have much to say about a "where" for this project.