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I'm your friend David Pierce, and I am sitting here organizing my entire life in Spotify.

I think for the first time ever, I've been using this app for over a decade, and this

is the first time I think I've ever done a full reorganization of my life in here.

And I'm doing it because there's this one thing that has annoyed me about Spotify forever,

which is that I have the music that I listen to when I'm in the car, or I don't know

what a barbecue or out with friends, or just hanging out at home, making dinner.

That's the music I would call my music taste.

And then there's the music I listen to all day, every day, while I work.

That's the feeling-y instrumental music.

It's a lot of movie scores.

It's a lot of ambient bands that I like.

I play it a ton, but I wouldn't call that the music that I like and really want Spotify

to tell me more about.

And yet, every year, at the end of the year, Spotify gives you that playlist with all your

favorite songs.

And it's like, you listen to the Batman soundtrack 650,000 times.

Maybe you'd like to hear that again.

And I'm just like, that's not really what's going on here.

And I kind of always wanted Spotify to separate those things.

Then, when I had a kid, it got even worse because now I spend eight hours a day listening

to Elmo's song, and I don't really want that in my algorithms either.

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