Replay one day from a year ago
Timestamps divide the day into three listening sessions, including one album played from start to finish.
Captured May 2026
One day in order
ListenBrainz returns each play with a timestamp. Sorting one date in order shows album plays, shuffle runs, and the gaps between them.
The prompt
According to my ListenBrainz 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 ListenBrainz data, show me what I was listening to a year ago today. I’d love to see the shape of the day.
Executing listenbrainz.get_all_listens The day has a clear three-act shape. After a short overnight tail of Pink Floyd that’s really the end of the night before, the real listening starts at 12:33 PM with a deliberate front-to-back play of Steely Dan’s Can’t Buy a Thrill — 11 tracks in album order over ~57 minutes, with “Reelin’ In the Years” getting an instant replay.
From there the day relaxes into about 90 minutes of classic-rock shuffle (Billy Joel, ELO, Layla, Hotel California, Queen, Dire Straits, Eagles), then pivots cleanly into a 28-minute Mamas & Papas mini-set drawn from five different albums, then a three-track ELO closer from Out of the Blue.
Two things worth flagging: the post-midnight Pink Floyd tracks belong to the prior day’s Wall session, not this one — strict 24-hour windows split natural sessions in half. And after a four-hour gap, a single late-night lo-fi rework of a Jagjit Singh ghazal closes the day at 9:22 PM, completely unlike anything else played.
Two caveats
Tracks after midnight belong to the previous night’s session, but a strict calendar-day query splits them off. One late-night track fits none of the surrounding listening and is left unexplained.
