Analyzing Spotify Stream History(ericchiang.github.io) |
Analyzing Spotify Stream History(ericchiang.github.io) |
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.
They have a Spotify integration and I use PanoScrobbler on mobile.
[1]: https://www.last.fm/
Been at it since 2004 [0]!
If you wish to use your scrobble data at all programmatically this is a far better tool to use.
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...
Ideas for other analysis;
Songs that over or under index when sliced by some other dimension. Weather? Morning vs evening? Weekday vs weekend? Summer vs winter?
Songs you never finish vs songs you always finish.
Songs you don't like from albums you do.
One hit wonders (within your personal taste)
Songs you've played 10+ times but haven't heard in over three years
If you had this data at scale: favourite songs from people who enjoy similar niches to you (it's me! Listen to Televators by TMV).
> 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
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.
I'll have to have a go at making something similar with my Spotify data. Thanks for the inspiration.