gTunes
A Spotify-powered music quiz that tests how well you actually know your own playlists.
Industry
Music & Entertainment
Scope of work
Web Development
Duration
a week
Challange
The API gives you the data. Getting the music to actually play took more creativity.
Spotify restricts direct audio playback to Premium users through its API, which makes building a music guessing game significantly harder than it sounds.
Goal
Turn a simple observation — people love testing their music knowledge — into something polished and shippable.
Rebuild gTunes with a cleaner, more refined UI while keeping the core experience intact: authenticate with Spotify, pick a playlist, and guess the tracks as they play.
Solution
A creative workaround turned a platform limitation into a non-issue.
Reverse-engineered Spotify's embed players and adapted them dynamically at runtime to simulate seamless playback across different track cases. The redesign focused on stripping away everything unnecessary and letting the game speak for itself.
