38.224 lines of Music as txt

I like to listen to music and I like to track everything. That's why I now have 38.224 lines in a txt file representing the music I listened to over the last 22 month and it's also why most of my friends think I'm kind of weird.

Here's how:
The basic is Spotify as my streaming music service of choice. Spotify allows you to scrobble all the music you've listened to over to last.fm. You'll find that somewhere in your spotify settings.
Now to collect all this data for myself, to play around with it and get happy, I needed my own list. Using an IFTTT recipe, everytime a new 'scrobble' was made at last.fm, a line was added to a google spreadsheet. Unfortunately google somehow added a new file every 2000 lines so that I decided today to tinker all those files into one txt file and to change the IFTTT recipe to dropbox (Here's the recipe). While I'm writing this, the recipe creates a second file in dropbox too...

Here's what:
Having all those lines of pure music data as a txt file, you can easily import it into your spreadsheed.
Using a little pivot table I found out that I've been listening to 2212 different artists, Alt-J at first place, followed by Turbostaat:

My most-played song over the last 22 month was All Opportunities by Solander.
I didn't even realize that It's On is a song of both Broncho and Pins:

What I double checked is this chart: it shows songs played per day. And there are days when I listened to more than 200 songs:

By hour of day:

Now I could cluster artists by hour... or day of week ... or I could go outside, enjoy the sun, have some coffee ...

Concert: Phonopop 2014

I really liked the PhonoPop Festival: good music, nice people everywhere and even delicious food.
I think this is my ranking for the bands I've seen there:

Messer




The Afghan Whigs




The Notwist




Balthazar




Ry X




The Robocop Kraus




Mozes And The Firstborn




Parquet Courts




Sizarr





WhoMadeWho




I didn't make it to:
KATE BOY
L’AUPAIRE
YOUNG HARE
JA, PANIK
SKINNY LISTER
A TALE OF GOLDEN KEYS
KALLE MATTSON
GHOST OF A CHANCE


Here's what I found on Spotify

Concert: Panteon Rococo @ Nachtleben

It was hot in there - I think I haven't had such a wet tshirt at a concert for years!

Concert: Hospitality at Hafen 2

My quick decision for today was pick up the bike and head down to Offenbach (!) with two friends to listen to Hospitality.

 

Fell a bit in love with Amber Papinis smile

Concert: La Dispute at Schlachthof

For me one of the greatest bands of the last two or three years - don't know how often I listened to 'wildlife' their 2011 album, driving in my car or just sitting an smoking.
The concert was the first in years that I bought a ticket for two month in advance - you should listen to this one:



got it?

Music for the day between Thursday and Saturday

Friday (ⁱ/ˈfraɪdeɪ/ or /ˈfraɪdi/) is the day between Thursday and Saturday. In countries adopting Monday-first conventions as recommended by the international standard ISO 8601, it is the fifth day of the week. It is the sixth day in countries that adopt a Sunday-first convention, as in the Abrahamic tradition. In other countries (see workweek and weekend), Friday is the first day of the weekend, with Saturday the second. In Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Iran, Friday is the last day of the weekend, with Saturday as the first day of the working week. Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Kuwait also followed this convention until they changed to a Friday–Saturday weekend, on 1 September 2006 in Bahrain and UAE,^[1] and a year later in Kuwait.^[2] In Iran, Friday is the only weekend day. --> as wikipedia says

Concert: The Majority Says, Temples, Crystal Antlers

Music because it's FRIDAY

 

Concert: Girls in Hawaii

Was there with the girrrrls... Would have been a disappointment going to the girls without any girls, you know.

Friday Playlist

Please find out what spotify says that I liked this year

So Spotify has tracked down what the world and I was listening to this year. And I've to say that I'm surprised that "Inside the Flood" is on place 5... Villagers and Bright Eyes - yep - these were important bands but where's Jacob Bellens and Wampire and Turbostaat ....? I'll make my top ten in the next weeks

17.247 streams would mean that spotify had payed something between 120 and 137 € to the artists (see also t3ns ) Now, is that less than they would have earned if I had bought some CDs? Lot's of artists might get some cents because of spotify which they wouldn't have earned elsewhere. 

Concert: Villagers

Their technically perfect sound was just as impressing as their music was able to take me far away for a while.

Music: Middle Class Rut - Pick Up Your Head

Dead Eye is what you should listen to...

http://mcrut.com/
2013

Music: Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits

http://divinefits.com/
2012

Music: The Sweet Serenades - Help Me!

Damn - didn't know they were coming...



http://thesweetserenades.com/ 2013

Concert:The Thermals at Zoom

there was another concert last week I didn't mention til now. I've won two tickets although I would have gone there anyways.

Music: A Place To Bury Strangers - Worship

Sea + Air at Hafen2

Sea + Air were supported by Leif and the Future yesterday at Hafen2 in Offenbach. Nice concert at which we were happy to participate with our keys and clap our hands.

Music: Bright Eyes - The People's Key

I really really really really didn't get why I missed this album in 2011- it's on my playlist for weeks now. Jejune Stars is the one I like most I think.
Conor Oberst started his "Bright Eyes"-project in 1995, but only since 2006 the cast of the band is kind of fixed but with guests on their albums and tours. So the list of band members is kind of long: Shane Aspegren, Clark Baechle, Jamie Forsyth, Kevin Barnes, Jake Bellows, Z Berg, Dan Bitney, Jason Boesel, Gretta Cohn, Jonathan Crawford, Britt Daniel, Stefanie Drootin, Sabrina Duim, Sherri DuPree, Stacy DuPree, Aaron Druery, Orenda Fink, Todd Fink, Margret Fish, Matt Focht, Cory Greenwood, Emmylou Harris, Jesse Harris, Jim James, Neely Jenkins, Simon Joyner, Matt Oberst, Tim Kasher, Joe Knapp, Tiffany Kowalski, Ben Kweller, Jiha Lee, Andy LeMaster, Clay Leverett, Jenny Lewis, Matt Maginn, John McEntire, Alex McManus, A. J. Mogis, Matthew Olsen, Anton Patzner, Steve Pedersen, David Rawlings, Clint Schnase, Casey Scott, Blake Sennett, Ted Stevens, Jimmy Tamborello, Macy Taylor, Maria Taylor, M. Ward, Janet Weiss, Gillian Welch, Nick White, Jamie Pressnall, Rachael Yamagata, Nick Zinner

Music: Listener - Wooden Heart

This is their 2010 album because the new one (Time Is A Machine) couldn't be found on spotify yet. Listener are three: Frontman Dan Smith, Christian Nelson (Guitar) and Kris Rochelle (Drums) and their Post-Rock/Folk whatever is different. They call it "Talk Music" and that describes Smith's lyrics fairly well. I've been to a concert and enjoyed it because they were 'real', had things to say and emotions to share.

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Di 03.09.2013 Trier (Exhaus)
So 01.09.2013 Regensburg (Andreasstadl)