{"id":5079,"date":"2025-01-04T21:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T21:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=5079"},"modified":"2025-01-04T21:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T21:46:15","slug":"lost-in-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=5079","title":{"rendered":"Lost In Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’m continually behind the curve, I don’t use Spotify, but I do mostly play music from my rPi player or phone these days (in fact, it seems I’ve been using that rPi player<\/a> for 10 years now, with a few changes).<\/p>\n

An upshot of this is that a proportion of my listening gets logged at last.fm<\/a>, and that is linked to Musicbrainz, which means that you can all see what I’ve listened to. It’s not my full listening: my phone isn’t logging, nor is the car stereo, but the Cantata<\/a> clients on my work and personal laptops do, so this will be skewed towards work-time listening.<\/p>\n

\"Graphic<\/a>
Graphic from Musicbrainz showing my listening for 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The data can be misleading as this is the first full year of data.<\/p>\n

My top track of the year was Nightwish’s Sleepwalker<\/em>, a track that was a Finnish Eurovision entry (though I prefer the “heavy version” from Bless The Child<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>
My top tracks of 2024: clearly I’ve listened to Sleep Token a lot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Top artist was Nightwish: it’s serene enough to work to but not dull.<\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>
My top artists of 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By comparison, here’s specifically what I’ve listened to on my phone:<\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>
My portable listening for 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Full data (excluding phone) here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I’m continually behind the curve, I don’t use Spotify, but I do mostly play music from my rPi player or phone these days (in fact, it seems I’ve been using that rPi player for 10 years now, with a few changes). An upshot of this is that a proportion of my listening gets logged … Continue reading Lost In Music<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5091,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions\/5091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}