Ever wanted to know how unique your music taste was? Obscurify is a website that gives you a score based on how obscure your taste is by accessing data from your Spotify listening history.
It also shows you how ‘energetic’ or ‘danceable’ your tracks are, either currently or throughout history, and lets you make playlists of your most listened to songs. Which, funnily enough, Spotify actually can’t do by itself.
Playlists
Obscurify can make a playlist in your Spotify library with either your all-time top tracks or what you’ve been listening to recently – chronicle your favorite tracks of the season or jam out to your 50 all-time greatest hit
Rankings
Walk through your personal music hall of fame – get a ranked list of your favorite artists and tracks and see what Spotify says is your favorite artist of all time
Uniqueness
Your score is based on the popularity of your favorite artists. The lower the score, the more obscure your taste. The higher the score, the more mainstream – think of it as being more relatable.
Once you are logged in with your spotify it give you a list of your top genres. You then get an obscurity rating which tell you how unique your music is compared to the country you are in.
The website also gives recommendation of song you might like based on what you’ve listened to previously. It gives pretty good recommendations of musics. If you wan to know how your music compares to other it a handy website.
It is also a nice way to find and check out new music that you would otherwise know about. The website tells you the moods of your music: Happiness, Energy, Danceabilty and Acousticness precentage.
The goal of Obscurify is to help you better understand your own music taste. It uses Spotify’s Web API to display your listening history, define your top genres, and to recommend under-the-radar songs you might like.
The global popularity ratings of the artists in your lists are aggregated to result in an Obscurity score which is compared to the Obscurify users in your country to show how unique (or energetic, danceable, and happy) a music taste you have.
Obscurify can also make playlists of the music in your track lists and place them in your Spotify library – including the historical snapshots that are saved when you view your Obscurify profile each month.
