Hello guys, it's been a while!
It's time for another YourSpotify update, the third one. This update comes with exciting features such as dark mode and friends affinity.
Friends
A few features have been added so that you can use your YourSpotify instance with friends in an easy way.
Public view URL
The public view URL is a URL you can generate in the Settings page. It allows everyone with it to consult your YourSpotify profile. Any edition to your profile is disabled, the user will only be able to view. If your URL becomes too public and you receive too much traffic on your device, you can regenerate a new one, the older one will be instantly deprecated.
Also, from any page, after having generated a public URL, you can click the Share this page button on the side to copy the public link to the specific page you're in! The copied link will contain the time range you specified in the header.
Affinity
You can find a new tab on the sider when you access the platform, the Affinity tab. The affinity tab allows you to find affinity with one or more people registered on the platform. You can find affinity with songs, albums and artists. Its goal is to find the elements specified group are meant to like
How is it calculated 🧠
Affinity comes with two modes that require a bit of focus to understand.
- Minima: The minima mode takes the songs (can be albums or artists) of each people and create the proportion of the time listened of this element compared to all the time spent listening. Then it takes the minimum of all people values and sort the elements by this value. e.g if A listens to SongA 30% of his time and B listens to SongA 1% of his time, the value used for sorting will be 1%.
- Average: The average mode does the same calculations on the proportions and only differ when sorting the elements. While minima takes the minimum of the proportions, average computes the average value to sort. e.g if A listens to SongA 30% of the time and B listens to SongA 1% of his time, the value used will be ~15%.
The difference of these modes in terms of meaning is that the minima will ensure everyone knows the songs where the average mode will ensure a few subset of the group really like the song.
Dark mode 🫣
Dark mode is out! The dark mode is synced to your profile so that you have a consistent experience across your devices. By default, the dark mode will be set to respect the device settings, but you can force the platform to be dark 🌙 or light 💡.
New stat 📈
Best 20 songs / albums / artists per hour of day
I introduced a brand new statistic that lets you see what songs you listened the most on a specific hour of the day. This stat will work better the more data you have and the larger the timespan. It lets you interpret the moods you're in at a specific moment of the day based on the artist you're listening too for example. Have fun using this stat!
Miscellaneous
- We have a new website icon thanks to @kimdre on #107.
- Repartition is now named distribution #113.
- An All range button is now accessible without having to manually select 2013 as a date of start. The start date is computed given your first record on YourSpotify, and won't break upon imports #119.
- Fixed a bug where changing interval on the Best Songs page would result in infinite loading the best songs.
Donations
A huge thanks to all donators:
I hope you guys will love the new features as much I am excited to present them.
Have a good one!
Timothée