As per title. I have recently tried out Spotify’s new Mixing feature, which is kinda interesting, but not a lot. It seems, however, that the editing of the mix, in which Spotify replays part of the track every time you make a change, triggers a listen. Or so I am guessing, based on the several identical listens appearing several times back to back to back to back on ListenBrainz. I have a whole page, 25 listens, of just one song.
Is there an easy way to remove these back-to-back repeat listens?
Certainly, a song getting heard a certain amount of times per minute is something one could look for as a warning that something odd’s going on. Almost 30 listens in a 10-minute time span. That’s about 3 listens per minute, for a 3:22 song. And it’s not the only instance of a song showing up back-to-back several times.
If no such tool exists, I could try and solve this by hand, or craft a tool for that. But if someone knows something, please do let me know.
Thanks in advance!
Edit: this seems to have heavily affected my stats for the previous month, September. So I have manually gone through my listens for the month, removing any immediate repeat listen occurring between a first listen and runtime past first listen.
E.g., if a song was heard at 13:19:03, and lasts 3:22, any repeat listen between 13:19:03 and 13:22:25 gets manually deleted (one by one), excepting it be interrupted by a different song. This still leaves some one-after-the-other repeats, but those are at least plausible repeats without starting over halfway through a song (i.e., not the same 3 minute song 7 times in a minute).
I reckon offering a dedup tool that flags repeats for manual deletion through a similar logic could be interesting. Akin to the Link Listens tool.
Funnily, this didn’t seem to affect Spotify’s stats. I do, however, recall seeing one Blend playlist I had used quite a bit that month reflect those “listens”, something which I didn’t piece together, thinking Spotify maybe was just doing a throwback for some reason, with songs I haven’t listened to that much in a while. So maybe Spotify has something to prevent this issue being reflected on stats. Perhaps similar to my method (though not manual)
Shoutout to date and qalc (command line tools) for the help with timestamp conversions and overall calculations throughout this endeavour