Remove a listening history
When you look up a Last.fm username, Retrospect copies that account’s public listening from Last.fm and keeps the copy, so the next visit doesn’t have to read it all again.
What it keeps
- Every song played: the artist, the track and when.
- How far it has read, so a long read can pick up where it stopped.
- The genre tags Last.fm gives the artists played most, and the genre results worked out from them.
- The answers to Retrospect’s questions, worked out from the listening.
Birth details for a birth chart stay in your browser and never reach Retrospect, so there’s nothing of them here to remove.
For how long
About 90 days after the username was last looked up, it’s deleted on its own.
What removing does
It deletes all of the above right away. Nothing changes on Last.fm, where the listening stays. If anyone looks the username up again, Retrospect reads the whole history from Last.fm again, which can take several minutes for a big one.
Who can remove it
Anyone, for any username, without signing in. That’s safe because nothing is lost: Last.fm still has all of it. To keep it from being done over and over, a username can be removed once a day, and Retrospect removes at most 20 a day in all. For a day or two afterward it keeps a scrambled note that the name was removed, with no listening in it.