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Data explanations, how-tos, and notes on how the tool works. Every article is written on the assumption that you will check the claims yourself.
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Why your Wrapped number is lower than your real total.
Wrapped stops counting in mid November. Measured across four years of one real export, that cutoff left out between an eighth and a fifth of each year's listening, and the 30-second rule barely moved the minutes at all.
Read the articleAccount data or extended streaming history: which to pick
They come from the same page and hold very different things. One holds about a year, the other holds all of it.
Read moreHow Quilore counts a skip
In the exports we have checked, the skipped field reads false for years of history. Here is what we check instead.
Read moreYour listening clock: what the hour of day really measures
Spotify's timestamps are UTC and mark when a track ended. In one real export, the timezone moved fourteen times more listening than the end time did.
Read moreWhat Google’s ad code receives when you read your Spotify file
We read a made-up export in a browser that records every request, then searched each one for the names in the file. What Google got, and what we fixed.
Read moreYour most played Spotify songs of all time
One song can sit under ten track IDs. In one real export, counting by ID pushed six songs out of the all-time top 25.
Read moreAbout the data
Articles that quote listening statistics take them from one real export, belonging to one of the two people who build Quilore and used with their agreement. They are not averages or estimates. Your own export will contain your own figures.