[quirino]

I'm a big fan of last.fm.

If you use Spotify, you can download your full listening history here: https://www.spotify.com/us/account/privacy/. You get it in a pretty convenient JSON format and with a little bit of code it's pretty easy to create some visualizations.

There are also websites for visualizing this data. I'm quite fond of this one: https://explorify.link/. It allows you to do some custom queries.

[kaizenb]

I build a web app years ago with Spotify SDK to display top artists, songs, recents, also with a Discovery section that generates new music based on your history. You can create playlists from all sections. free @ https://echoesapp.io

[quirino]

Tried it out now, pretty nice.

Note that apps built from the SDK don't have access to the full history, only up to some cutoff. I tried a couple over the years and wrongly concluded Spotify deleted your history after some time.

The data download does contain everything, which was a very pleasant surprise. I didn't think I'd ever see the data from the couple years gap in my last.fm.

[kaizenb]

Just requested my data. They have noted "Preparation time 30 days" :/ What takes so long?

[monster_truck]

It typically shows up in a few days in the most extreme cases (10k+ artists, 200k+ songs played) the first time, sooner after that

[zimpenfish]

> They have noted "Preparation time 30 days" :/ What takes so long?

There's probably one person nursing some horrific bogslop software that frequently breaks but absolutely cannot be rewritten or changed (because it was someone's pet project) and frequently has to be manually twizzled to get things out of what is probably a hostile data retrieval environment and they're just TIRED and that's why there's a 30 day leeway because otherwise the Data Retrieval Goblin would be way over the line of overwhelmed rather than just under it all the time.

Probably.

(I realise I've likely described a significant percentage of companies there.)

[rapnie]

Discouraging you to do it again.

[sunaookami]

It's the maximum time allowed by GDPR but it usually is way faster, depending on how much data you have.

[kaizenb]

Arrived today. 19,4 MB (:

[Zambyte]

Thanks for the tip. I just logged in to my Spotify account for the first time in years so I can export my data :)