I’ve been tracking my music listening habits for decades on last.fm ever since my dad introduced me to the platform – it’s great to see what music I listened to overtime.

I used to use last.fm daily to find new music by exploring radios, in a time before streaming when ripping mp3s of disk (or online) was king it was the best way to find new music. Once Spotify took over I dumped my local music collection and exclusively listened to streamed music, I had my last.fm connected and mostly ignored it while it silently collected my data.

I’m not sure when last.fm changed but it’s a far throw from its glory days now and it’s hard to see really simple stats about my listening history without signing up for a pro membership. Recently I found an alternative which is exclusive to Spotify called YourSpotify. It is self hosted and pulls recent listening data in real time from the Spotify API but requires a data export from Spotify (which takes up to 30 days) for full historic listening data.