It is often claimed that music streaming services lack fairness, and that recommendation algorithms exacerbate this issue. In the EU research project “Fair MusE” we examine this question of fairness scientifically – with your help!
You can help gaining more fairness for music creators by sharing your music streaming data with the research project.
By analysing your data, and by comparing it with data from 1000 other users across Europe, we hope to be able to find out how the music recommendation algorithms work, and find out whether streaming can be more fair.
If you want to participate:
1. Create a login to the portal
2. Choose your streaming service and ask for your data (see instructions below for specific streaming services)
3. Wait for the data to get ready for download
4. Upload the data to this portal
5. See your music habits: explore the diversity and fairness of your listening
When you upload your data we automatically delete all information which is not about the music and your listening. You can see the data we keep for each streaming platform in the instructions below. We do not look into your data without your consent. We use the data to create statistics in which individuals cannot be identified. Your personal music data is used only within the Fair MusE project. We abide by GDPR for the secure storage and processing of your information.
Tell us how you find new music and how different or similar it should be to your preferences.
Explore visualisations of your listening habits and see how diverse Fair MusE listening is.