Maybe this is too much for some of you but I'm obsessed with the data generated about my listening habits.
Here's the full annual report of my listening from Last.fm. I've also included the pictures from the playback. Sorry for the screenshots, but there really wasn't another way to share it.
Today's the day where last.fm shows you your annual listening stats in much more detail than Spotify. They also consider December part of the year which Spotify doesn't for some odd reason.
Looks like I can't figure out how to make the replay public, but here's a link to my profile and pretty much everything I have listened to since 2007. You can look at annual track counts, and even down to daily on there if you like.
Some thoughts:
I felt my longest streak would have been 100+ days but I only had 85 concurrent as the longest.
Last.fm tagged most of the Yellowcard tracks incorrectly, something I missed out on when looking over weekly and monthly reports. These are all meant to be the new joint album with Hammock. Spotify had these correct but somehow last.fm missed it. I wonder what happens if I correct the tags now? Technically it's still correct - it is Yellowcard - but it's not the actual track I listened do which was the remix with Hammock and a very different song. Plus, no credit for Hammock listening!
I really like all the other detailed descriptions of things in the report. I hope you consider getting last.fm and tracking your listening habits too! I've been at it since a student showed it to me in 2007. I have a lot of information about my listening including being able to tell when I heard a track and got obsessed with it to when I last listened to it. It's a lot of fun, as long as you aren't embarrassed by everyone seeing you listened to the same song like 20 times in a row.
The image of the annual replay should be here in this post! I'll share more when I figure out how to do it. Might just be some screen shots.
In the morning 1972 plus 8.
This is the most Ironic coffee cup I've ever used in my life.
The biscotti cookies on Delta used to be the obvious choice on these flights, but now there is a new champion. Whatever these things are, they are my new favorite.
I think I disgusted everyone i was in line with by chugging a beer and eating a disintegrating sub sandwich while boarding. No, it was not a chicken finger sub - add another thing to the regrets list.
Had a couple of thoughtful conversations on this trip. First, what is regret and what’s the function of regret? To say you have no regrets in life is to perhaps be expressing regret in a novel way. Regrets shouldn’t drive you forward, they shouldn’t really guide you unless they are educational moments where you learned a choice was a poor one. But even then, how do you determine a poor choice? The context then or now? It was a pretty good chat.
Secondly, what does success mean? How would you know you were successful? There are financial benchmarks, obviously, but sometimes these leave us feeling cold. What about personal ones? That has the problem of being so individualized you dissolve any communicative potential of the term. Are successful people pointing themselves out? Or is that a sign of failure? Who gets to determine if someone has been successful? This is another great question I’m thinking about here as I return home.
Along with the cookies I suggest a pairing of Woodford Reserve. They gave me a double this time. Cheers to you and happy new year! We plan to listen to music, watch the ball drop on TV and make some cocktails.
