About

spet is an interpreter for a turing-complete programming language loosely based off of brainfuck based on Spotify playlists. It is licensed under the GPLv3.

Language Definition

The interpreter reads the playlist from the top down. Various attributes of the song, sorted in terms of importance, defines the behaviours of the songs. The data land is a list of 40000 bytes, which can be navigated through with a pointer. From most important to least important, the songs evaluate to:

Print Character

Any song from RADWIMPS' album Your Name. prints the character at the pointer location.

Input Character

Any song by Coldplay grabs input from stdin depending on the number of letters in the first word of the song. For example, A Sky Full of Stars will take only the first letter of whatever input is in stdin and write it to the location of the pointer. However, Yellow will take the first six letters of stdin and write it, starting at the pointer location. The pointer stays at its position befure the input is called.

Moving the pointer

Any song by Radiohead moves a pointer forward by 1 byte, while any song by Green Day moves a pointer back 1 byte.

Incrementing and Decrementing a value

Any song from the Muse album Drones will decrement the value at the pointer by 1, while any song from the Muse album Origin of Symmetry increments the value at the pointer by 1. Decrementing causes the value to wrap around, so decrementing a 0 results in a 255, while incrementing a 255 results in a 0.

Loops

If a song contains the word Run in its name, and if the data at the pointer is 0, the program jumps forward to the song directly following the next song containing the word Talk in its name. If a song contains the word Talk in its name, and if the data at the pointer is nonzero, the program jumps back to the corresponding song containing the word Run.

Setting values

If a song's album's first word has length less than 7, and does not satisfy any of the above definitions, the data at the pointer is set to the first character of the next song.

Setup

spet requires a Spotify premium account to connect with the API. To set up spet's interpreter, clone the repo and do a pip install -r requirements.txt. Then, create a Spotify API key and set the redirect URL to something like http://localhost:8888/callback.

To run spet, cd into the spet directory and run python3 spet.py <username> <playlist_uri>. Follow the instructions to set up the correct environment variables for the API keys. The playlist URI can be found on the Spotify app's Share button, and looks something like 7hShQSKY5AU0YQaN833iEx.