MickeyDavis wrote:MikeIsGood wrote:MickeyDavis wrote:I don't use Spotify but I'm familiar with Wrapped. What would be the reason for giving you inaccurate results? They have the data.
I have no idea, but they said my top song was something I played only 23 times, which certainly is hilariously inaccurate. I've always kind of had the same suspicion - it doesn't feel malicious to me or like they're manipulating data, but something feels dramatically off. Like a huge chunk of data is missing. And while I may be considering other services too much (really just SXM for me), it's definitely not just that, as I listen to Spotify quite a bit everyday. But interesting, nonetheless.
 
Yeah that's weird.  Sounds like it's just crappy/lazy programming on their end. I see it all the time in my analytics work.
 
This finally got me curious enough to do some Googling, and apparently back in 2019 one of their Support people said that they cut off the tracking in October in order to give them time to assemble their data and slides (which makes no sense - it should be dynamically populated). That makes some sense, but it actually just makes me think it's even more inaccurate than that. For example, they said I listed for 6700 minutes this year - which would be roughly 22 minutes daily through October, if that were the cutoff. But I listen to at least one Podcast in Spotify - which they included in their metrics - every weekday, which would take up ~15 minutes daily on its own. Though, maybe they don't count Podcasts for minutes played specifically.
Either way, interesting data, but yeah, it's definitely fishy. I might start syncing to Last.FM again now that this has gotten me curious; they record your listening realtime across multiple services.