# Spotify2MusicBrainz.py (pre-?)alpha testing release

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/spotify2musicbrainz-py-pre-alpha-testing-release/250504
**Category:** MusicBrainz
**Tags:** data-import, digital-media, musicbrainz-scripts, spotify, musicbrainz
**Created:** [April 19, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/spotify2musicbrainz-py-pre-alpha-testing-release/250504 "2017-04-19T22:04:57Z")
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### Author: ![Freso](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/freso/32/25_2.png) [@Freso](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Freso)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2017, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/spotify2musicbrainz-py-pre-alpha-testing-release/250504/12 "2017-10-08T18:41:19Z")

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> [@salohcin](#):
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> is there any reason why we can’t just run this through a bunch of playlists to pull out all the information from each song (and album) and add it to the MusicBrainz database?

We generally frown on fully-automated adding of data to the database. See e.g.,

> [@Automating updates from other services](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/automating-updates-from-other-services/201717):
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> I would love to write a script that adds new releases on Spotify automatically to MusicBrainz every Friday. Is this something that would be frowned upon? I would be rate-limiting it and also making sure the releases doesn’t already exist.

> [@salohcin](#):
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> are there errors in Spotify’s data?

I’ve found Spotify’s release dates to be pretty hit and miss. For most current/modern releases (where digital and physical editions are released simultaneously (if they have a physical manifestation!)), it will likely be correct, but Spotify stores the oldest release date, and it’s unlikely that a digital media online streaming album was released in, say, 1978… (This is also the reason my importer—that this topic is about—doesn’t include release date information.)

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