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The first thing I do when I meet a stranger is to try and suss out what kind of music they listen to.

It feels like the simple pleasure opens you up to their inner world, where you can see what makes the person tick and how they think – if you’re analytical at that level at least.

Spotify has created a bit of a fun culture around analysing music taste and listening trends.

At the end of the year, Spotify Wrapped gets everyone excited to check out their data and share the results with the world.

But since there’s still some time until the end of the year, and some of us are bad at waiting, we have to look elsewhere for ways to mine our music data.

Luckily, Mashable poked around the internet’s numerous nooks and crannies and collected a few cool websites that analyse a person’s Spotify antics.

Just FYI, to allow these websites to work, you’ll need to grant them access to your Spotify data, but don’t worry, there’s a way to undo that afterwards.

How Bad is Your Spotify

This website hosts a “sophisticated A.I.” that “judges your awful taste in music”, which might look something like this:

The snarky roasting site gained major traction in 2020 and has been rolling with the punches ever since. We all love to hate it.

Icebergify (AKA the Spotify Iceberg)

This app ranks all your music on an iceberg of popularity to obscurity, using the top 50 artists of your short-term, medium-term, and long-term listening trends.

That’ll turn out something like this, according to Mashable writer Christianna Silva’s tastes:

MusicScape

Then there’s this website that makes your Spotify listening aesthetic AF, generating a landscape based on the tracks you’ve recently listened to:

The website considers the mood, mode, energy, and key of the music you like to create your sonic palette:

MusicTaste.Space

Ever wondered how your music tastes compare to your mates? Good thing that this website lets you find out how compatible your music taste is with your friends and even strangers.

Discover Quickly

This website organises your playlists, top songs, and top artists into different criteria, like popularity and danceability, and even some of Spotify’s super-specific genres like “acid house” and “charred death”. You can get a playlist made from that genre, or a random genre, too.

There are other cute/crazy-sounding websites like Receiptify, which makes a little receipt out of your music tastes, as well as Moodify, which makes AI-generated playlists based on the mood of the song you’re currently listening to.

Right, now for how to unlink your Spotify data from these websites after you’re done poking around.

You can do that by going to Spotify app settings and selecting “Remove Access”.

Have fun.

[source:mashable]