How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify
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How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify
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Re: How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify
#2Cool idea. One thing the author might like: if you sign up to lastfm, it tracks all of your music plays. So you can go through the data and see what you were listening yo each month/week
Re: How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify
#3Nice! I have my lastfm when I need a throw back. They still allow yearly views
Re: How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify
#4I create a playlist for each month (e.g., 2026.01) inside of a folder of the corresponding year (e.g., 2026) and add new tracks there (instead of using Spotify likes).
This allows me to jump back to a specific year/month.
You can also hit play on the folder to play all songs from a specific year.
I used to have a single Inbox playlist to save music and keep the date when I saved each song.
Re: How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify
#5The words 'archive' and 'Spotify' do not go together naturally! (Ditto any subscription service).
From the title I was expecting something like "how I archived my Spotify memories in a plain text file".
Re: How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify
#6Cool idea. One thing the author might like: if you sign up to lastfm, it tracks all of your music plays. So you can go through the data and see what you were listening yo each month/week
Librefm or listenbrainz as well
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Re: How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify
#8Cool idea. One thing the author might like: if you sign up to lastfm, it tracks all of your music plays. So you can go through the data and see what you were listening yo each month/week
Librefm or listenbrainz as well
Listenbrainz has a really intuitive and permissive api! I was just building my own tracker app with it yesterday: https://github.com/caminante-blanco/bowie-tracker
Re: How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify
#9Of potential interest, listenbrainz supports uploading your Spotify backup raw, and will keep it all in a easily parseseable, query-able backup. Combine that with a good scrobbler, and you never need to be at Spotify's whims again
Re: How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify
#10I enjoy looking back at what I had been listening to in previous years as well. But playlists in Spotify have a "Date added" column, so you get a chronology from there. I guess splitting them out into years means you can shuffle a single year. Apart from that it seems to just complicate the process.
My "Starred" playlist has the first song added in 2010. When Spotify decided "Like" was now going to be how to favourite songs i just ignored it and kept using the Starred playlist.
I do wish the play history and play counts were kept longer. Would be a nice bonus for premium accounts to have lifetime play counts, and maybe 2 years of play history.