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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.
Also from this era and loosely related. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oink%27s_Pink_Palace
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.
Spotify is still the only big streaming service with native platform-level scrobbling. For everything else it's a lot more DIY, usually with third party tools at the device level.
A big reason it’s still relevant is the ecosystem around it. The API hasn't really changed in 15 years, which makes it easy to build tools where a username alone is enough. That kind of lightweight social integration has mostly disappeared elsewhere.
Today, the social / community side is almost entirely just Discord. Nearly every music related server has a bot that displays Last.fm stats. My estimate is that abut 10% of Last.fm their users are also active in Discord music communities.
(Disclaimer: I run .fmbot, a Discord bot that integrates with Last.fm.)
Still a member of Last.fm, scrobbling since 4 Jan 2007 with 283,262 scrobbles.
Checking mine, scrobbling since 9 Oct 2006 with 297,127 scrobbles myself.