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oh also, since it may be of benefit to you: I did this a few years back too. attempted to get my play history out. that turned out to be a mess, and definitely missed some shit in the export.
then I started looking at what option I had for starting to seed that into something else, and, fuck me. apple music desktop app? no fucking API exposed for search on the streaming half of the app. all the ex-itunes/local shit? plenty hooks. "Apple Music" side? nope.
you have to go get a fucking developer key to be able to hit the Apple Music API to be able to do that. (or to go use a "free service" which handily gives people access to your full fucking library and thus allows them to mine it, and no fucking way go fuck yourselves thank you)
it's fucking mental
exactly! I took this opportunity to start over from scratch (which is why I’m seeking recommendations) with Bandcamp and a pile of automatically organized and tagged FLACs in storage for when Bandcamp enshittifies (coming soon!), and YouTube Music on a friend’s account if I get truly desperate for a shitty recommendation engine
of all these options, the automatically managed pile of FLACs have by far the best API, because you choose what it is (and there’s some very good options even for streaming them to your own devices)
maybe you'll find this useful for recommendations https://www.gnoosic.com/