# Sortify

Earlier project · 2024

Role: Backend \+ recommendations
Stack: Python, Spotify API, Recommendation

A Spotify-API app that sorts and recommends playlists by genre, mood and danceability\. I built the backend recommendation logic on top of Spotify's audio-feature data to surface personalised picks for how a playlist actually feels\.

## Context
Organising music around genre, mood and danceability\.

## My contribution
Built backend recommendation logic using Spotify audio features\.

## Approach
- Python backend with the Spotify API\.
- Audio-feature-based playlist organisation and personalised recommendations\.

## Highlights
- Clusters tracks by audio features — mood, danceability, genre\.
- Personalised recommendations from listening signals\.
- Python backend against the Spotify Web API\.

## Evidence
- Project summary retained from earlier portfolio work\.

## Limitations
- No public evaluation, repository or current live service is supplied\.
- This is historical project work, not a claim about current Spotify API availability\.

Source: <https://owencdev.info/projects/sortify>

Owner-supplied professional and project descriptions; earlier non-conflicting portfolio material retained\. Not independent verification\.