the road to new orleans
A couple years ago, my friend L and I took a road trip down to New Orleans. We stopped in towns along the way and played album after album across long stretches of the open road.
After returning from the trip, I exported my Spotify listening history to capture all of the music I listened to from the moment we left Detroit, tracking our progress to the bayou and back. Each song had a timestamp, which was helpful information for what I wanted to do next.
To improve accuracy, I also exported all of the photos I took from the road trip and snagged their location metadata to mark exactly where I was on the trip and when.
I merged the Spotify data and the location metadata to arrived at a stylized view of what we listened to on the road. Here is the result (link).
I like projects like this - feels like online scrapbooking.