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Local-Only Personal Music Retrospective From a Spotify Extended Streaming History Export, So Privacy Users Can Have Their Own Wrapped Without Letting Spotify See Their Lifetime Listening

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Spotify launched 'Party of the Years' on May 12, 2026 — an opt-in retrospective of users' entire 20-year listening history. Privacy users (and people who already left Spotify but kept their JSON export) want the same retrospective without re-uploading their lifetime listening data to Spotify or any third party. A local-only static-site generator that runs against the Extended Streaming History JSON would solve it.

builder note

Ship as a single HTML file that runs everything client-side — user drags their JSON into the page, browser does all parsing, nothing leaves the device. Distribution: a static page on Netlify or even a GitHub Pages link. Don't add accounts, don't add a backend. The whole point is 'I trust the file on my disk, I don't trust your server.'

landscape (4 existing solutions)

The Wrapped-style polish only exists in tools that require you to log back into Spotify with OAuth. The local-first equivalent that reads the Extended Streaming History ZIP and renders a slick HTML retrospective doesn't exist as a product, only as scattered Jupyter notebooks.

rigtch.fm and mystats.music Web-based, require OAuth to Spotify which defeats the privacy point. Don't read the local JSON dump
Last.fm history visualizers Requires you scrobble to Last.fm — opposite of local-first. Doesn't read Spotify's official extended history export
DIY Jupyter notebook tutorials Exist but require Python literacy. Output looks like a notebook, not Wrapped
Maloja (self-hosted scrobbler) Tracks going forward, doesn't ingest a one-shot lifetime export and produce a polished retrospective

sources (4)

other https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-05-12/spotify-20-personal-... "look back at your entire music listening history on Spotify" 2026-05-12
other https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/spotify-launches-a-wrapped... "Spotify launches Wrapped-style recap of entire listening history" 2026-05-12
other https://proton.me/blog/spotify-wrapped-alternatives "privacy-safe version of Wrapped using your own export" 2025-12-01
other https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/spotify-wrapped-privacy/ "AI narratives at scale and the privacy trade-off" 2026-04-15
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