What is spotify-music-map?

Sonic Cartography, also called Spotify Music Map, is a web app that turns your Spotify library into an interactive globe showing where each of your favorite artists actually comes from. Every artist you listen to is pinned to their real world city of origin, colored by musical genre, and grouped together as you zoom in and out across the map. To use it, you connect your own Spotify account through a login process, and the app pulls your Liked Songs and playlists. It then looks up where each artist is from using a public database called Wikidata, which stores information like an artist's birthplace or the city where a band originally formed. Those locations are geocoded into map coordinates and cached so the app loads instantly on future visits. The globe itself supports a few different visual styles, including a satellite view and a plain vector map, and you can zoom smoothly from a view of the whole planet down to individual streets. Artists are color coded by genre, such as hip hop, rock, jazz, or afrobeats, and you can search or filter your results by artist name, city, country, playlist, or genre. Clicking an artist opens a detail card showing their origin, genre, related playlists, and lets you play a liked track right in the browser. There is also a feature that can draw travel arcs between locations or make the globe spin automatically. The app also supports importing and exporting playlist data as CSV files in a format compatible with a separate tool called Exportify, so you can bring in data from other sources or merge multiple exports onto the same map. Setting it up requires Python, a Spotify developer account to get API credentials, and editing an environment file with those credentials before running the Flask based backend locally. The frontend is built with plain JavaScript and a mapping library, so no JavaScript framework or build step is needed to run it.