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Export your Spotify data into a private AI brain
Spotify will send you your listening history and, more interestingly, what it inferred about you from it. The brain keeps both: an artist-level taste graph, and the mirror.
What a Spotify export holds — and what the brain makes of it
The download comes in two parts: the account data within days, and the extended streaming history within up to 30 days. Tick the extended history — the default export alone is thin. The brain builder reads listening history as an artist-level taste graph, playlists and followed artists as interests, your search queries as a search log, and Spotify’s Inferences and Marquee ad segments as the algorithmic mirror. Userdata and payment files are quarantined.
Drop both zips’ contents in together; the brain merges them into one Spotify source.
Get the export
How to export your Spotify data
The exact clicks, as they are today. Platforms move menus; the engine’s source docs are updated when they do.
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spotify.com/account → Security & privacy → Download your data
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Tick Extended streaming history — the default alone is thin
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Email links arrive separately (account ~5 days, extended up to 30) — drop both zips' contents together
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Drop the archive on Spotify in Studio’s Sources — or tell Claude Code or Codex “build my brain from this”. The source is detected by itself, even inside a combined archive.
Then, next month
An export is a snapshot. Drop a newer one and press Update: your edits and _notes/ are kept, and the update report says what changed.
Then ask it
What you can ask a brain built from Spotify
Examples, not promises: the answer is whatever your notes hold, and every answer cites the notes it came from. The more exports you add, the more these questions cross sources.
- Which artists did I listen to most each year, and which fell away?
- What does Spotify infer about me, and does it match what I would say?
- Which playlists did I build, and which artists recur across them?
limitThe extended history can take up to 30 days to arrive; until it does, the brain sees only the account-level summary.
Good to know
The honest answers.
Is my payment information imported? No. Userdata and payment files are quarantined — never imported.
Why two separate emails? Spotify prepares the account data and the extended streaming history as separate downloads with different lead times. Both belong in the same folder.
Start
Your Spotify export already exists. Turn it into a brain.
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