spotify purge

People have different listening habits, here’s mine: Around every quarter, I browse across genre definitions, looking for something that interests me, but that I haven’t heard of before or that I only know superficially. I’ll flip through the twenty top rated albums on Rate Your Music, and save them for later. Most of time, I’ll pick one, and try to listen from start to finish. Some stick around, and some I’ll never touch again.

After this initial phase, routine sets in and I start to gravitate to the same albums, listening further, and capturing new heard detail along the way.

Today, I purged my Spotify albums. I’ve done this two or three times now, and it’s great way to force myself to refresh my selection. Last time, I did this by hand, but today I wrote a small AutoHotKey script to automate removing and confirming albums from my library.

To be fair: After a year my library looks like its former state. But this is fine to me! Purging is supposed to feel like a spring cleaning, or putting on new bed sheets. It won’t last forever, but it’s feels nice for now.