Edit: just looked at it. Over 10 years, I have a little over 200 days worth of listening time. It has some neat graphs. And I like that I can dive deep and pick a specific song or artist and see things like “when I first listened” and my full play history for that specific song.

Been at it since 2004 [0]!

[0] https://www.last.fm/user/nudgeee/listening-report/year

https://listenbrainz.org/

If you wish to use your scrobble data at all programmatically this is a far better tool to use.

[1] https://savas.ca/lastwave/

My only gripe is that all the charts are by number of scrobbles (how many times you listened to a song) and not by amount of time.

1 Pink Floyd song can be as long as 10 Misfits song...

> If you had this data at scale

That was the "raison d'etre" of last.fm. Alas, it is not popular anymore (=smaller scale)

> favourite songs from people who enjoy similar niches to you

In last.fm, you can go to an artist's listener page [2], pick a user who "listens to Televators a lot", export their most-listened/loved tracks to Spotify, filter them by genre, and try them out :). You could also go to a track page [3], pick a user who commented on it, and do the same.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261486

[2] https://www.last.fm/music/The+Mars+Volta/+listeners

[3] https://www.last.fm/music/The+Mars+Volta/_/Televators

If they don't have it, you can do what I did to Spotify many years ago, in annoyance after they closed a request for shared listening history across their apps: I GDPR'd them. See, if you store my listening history at all, sharing it back with me is not optional.

So that's why I know what their Kafka layout looks like. Or what it looked like in 2018 anyway. I like to hope I hastened their implementation of giving users access to their data slightly.

I think they just sometimes disable new API accounts creation. It is open now anyway, and my old API key is still working.