Reconstruct one day from its scrobbles
Timestamps divide one day of scrobbles into five listening sessions and two tracks that sit on their own.
Captured May 2026
Timestamps and gaps
A scrobble is a track with a timestamp. Ordering the tracks and measuring the gaps separates the day’s longer sessions from isolated plays.
The prompt
According to my Last.fm data, show me what I was listening to a year ago today. I'd love to see the shape of the day.
The response
According to my Last.fm data, show me what I was listening to a year ago today. I’d love to see the shape of the day.
Executing lastfm.get_recent_tracks Here’s how that day played out — five sessions spread across nearly nineteen hours, plus two lone strays:
The day has a sprawling shape. It opens just after midnight with an eclectic late-night run — Kate Bush, PJ Harvey with Thom Yorke, Radiohead, Daft Punk, closing on Jeff Buckley’s “Grace” at 1:30 AM. Then a single Coldplay track at 3 AM, alone in the dark.
Midday brings a tighter, poppier ten-track stretch (Daft Punk, Metric, Future Islands), and the real centre of gravity is a dense 4 PM hour — sixteen tracks across thirteen artists, wandering from Travis to Rammstein to Patti Smith to Metallica. It’s the widest-ranging stretch of the day by far.
Two things stand out: the lone 3 AM Coldplay track sits by itself with nothing around it, and the day signs off with a single live David Bowie cut at 7:27 PM — two quiet bookends framing the busier sessions in between.
The five sessions
Last.fm does not label sessions. They are inferred from the gaps between tracks, while two isolated plays remain ungrouped.
