Can a prompt replace Spotify Premium?

Build a listening-history archive and analysis tool, and stream your own collection alongside it.

For playback, run Navidrome over your music folder and use existing Subsonic clients — see the Apple Music entry for the ingest pipeline that makes that library usable.

The part worth writing is the history. Spotify's extended streaming history export gives you every play you have ever made, with timestamps, track, artist, milliseconds played and whether you skipped. Import it into SQLite with a proper schema and it becomes the most interesting dataset you own about yourself.

Build the reports that no annual wrap-up gives you: skip rate per artist, which is a far better measure of taste than play count; the tracks you played obsessively for two weeks and never again; listening by hour of day and day of week; the artists you have played every year for five years; and first-play dates, so you can see when something entered your life.

Then close the loop with the local library. For each of your top artists, report whether you own anything by them. That list is a buying list, and it is the practical output of the whole exercise — the music you actually listen to, that you would lose the day the subscription stops.

Keep scrobbling forward: Navidrome can report plays to a scrobbling service or to your own endpoint, so the history continues in the same schema after you cancel.

Do not attempt to download from the streaming service. It breaches the terms, the tooling is a moving target, and it is not what this build is for.