My Apple Music library

Your three listening modes

Derived from play counts, loved tracks, and genre clustering. These aren’t categories you picked — they’re patterns the data revealed.

• Cluster 1 · Deep listening

  Ambient and game

  Still your most-played cluster by a wide margin — C418, Jesper Kyd, Lorne Balfe, Darren Korb dominate the top 25. Tycho now at 133 plays and 6 loved — fully graduated. Jon Hopkins at 110 plays. GameChops collab artists (Curly, Super Piano 64, Sixth Station Trio, Rozen) are the active Inbox batch right now, expanding the game music wing significantly.

  C418 · Jesper Kyd · Kodomo · Jon Hopkins · Darren Korb · Lorne Balfe · TPR · GENTLE LOVE · Tycho · Danger · BT

  Flow / focus mode

• Cluster 2 · Comfort zone

  90s/00s alt-rock

  Inbox graduates confirmed: Foster the People (9 loved, 101 plays), Our Lady Peace (8 loved), Dave Matthews Band (8 loved), Toad the Wet Sprocket (6 loved) all promoted. Dislike data also sharpened the borders here — Rush, The Doors, Avenged Sevenfold, classic hard rock flagged out.

  Matchbox Twenty · Goo Goo Dolls · Counting Crows · Tonic · Sister Hazel · Lifehouse · Collective Soul · Fuel · Foster the People · Our Lady Peace · Dave Matthews Band · Toad the Wet Sprocket

  Comfort / nostalgia mode

• Cluster 3 · New discovery

  Acoustic, folk, coffeehouse

  Brand new cluster this pass — Morning Coffeehouse Serenity (Apple-curated, 25 tracks) signals a taste expansion into Iron & Wine, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Tracy Chapman, Ray LaMontagne, George Ezra. This didn’t exist as a distinct category in the library before the trip. Nascent but real.

  Iron & Wine · Fleet Foxes · Bon Iver · Tracy Chapman · Ray LaMontagne · George Ezra · Vance Joy · Ben Howard · Angus & Julia Stone · The Paper Kites

  New / expanding mode

Top 25 most played

Pure play count — no weighting. This is what you actually listen to most.

Genre breakdown

All 5,715 tracks by genre tag (Apple’s tagging, not ours).

Decade distribution

Where your library actually lives chronologically.

Top artists by love and plays

Combined score: (loved tracks × 3) + total play count. Your actual hierarchy of devotion.

Significant overlaps

Playlist pairs sharing ≥20% of their tracks. High overlap = possible consolidation candidate.

1. Video Game Master List and Melancholy Mix

   79% · 64 tracks shared

   64 tracks shared between a game source playlist and a mood playlist. These are probably intentionally melancholy-feeling game tracks — but worth knowing if you ever want to separate source from mood.

2. Perfect Focus and Replay All Time

   78% · 51 tracks shared

   51 tracks shared — your focus playlist and all-time replay list are nearly identical. Given that C418 dominates both, this might just be accurate: your most-replayed tracks are your focus music.

3. The 1975 Essentials and Replay All Time

   78% · 31 tracks shared

   Replay All Time pulls heavily from The 1975 Essentials — 31 of your all-time replays are 1975 tracks.

4. Adventure & Ambience and Dad’s Game Mix

   77% · 34 tracks shared

   Dad’s Game Mix is largely a subset of Adventure & Ambience. Consider whether both need to exist independently.

5. Adventure & Ambience and Perfect Focus

   55% · 36 tracks shared

   36 tracks shared — game ambient is clearly pulling focus duty, which tracks with your listening patterns.

6. 90’s and Dougie Radio

   51% · 94 tracks shared

   Over half of Dougie Radio is 90s content — Dougie Radio is essentially the 90s smart playlist with some extras added.

7. Eugene Car Tunes and Feeling Good

   46% · 63 tracks shared

   63 tracks shared — your car playlist and feel-good playlist overlap significantly. Probably intentional but worth knowing.

8. Eugene Car Tunes and Vacation Mix

   44% · 59 tracks shared

   59 tracks shared — vacation vibes and car tunes are nearly the same playlist.

9. 90’s and My Peloton Music by NineAfterTen

   38% · 77 tracks shared

   77 tracks shared — your Peloton playlist draws heavily from 90s content, which makes sense for workout energy.

Full playlist inventory

All 54 user playlists organized by folder.

Electronic, ambient, electronica: round 2

Previous batch (Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Austin Wintory) didn’t fully click. This round leans into BT/Tycho as the anchor and pushes toward warmer, more driving electronica: Boards of Canada, Bonobo, Amon Tobin, and deeper Jon Hopkins catalog.

• BT

  You have BT in your taste profile already — so this is deepening that thread rather than going somewhere new. ESCM and This Binary Universe are the cornerstones: dense, layered electronic that sits right between Kodomo’s atmospheric side and the more propulsive energy of your Electric Pulse playlist. Stutter edit pioneer, still one of the best.

  Start with ‘Flaming June’, ‘Remember’, ‘The Force of Gravity’, This Binary Universe album

• Tycho

  Already in your library and scoring well on plays — Tycho is the artist in your collection that most bridges ambient and electronic. The move here is to go deeper: Awake and Epoch are the two records that show his full range from hazy instrumental to more driving post-rock electronics.

  Start with ‘Awake’, ‘Dive’, ‘Epoch’, ‘Division’

• Röyksopp

  Norwegian electronic duo — warm, melodic, and accessible in a way that maps directly to your Jon Hopkins / Tycho taste without going experimental. Their earlier albums Melody A.M. and The Understanding are the sweet spot: lush synths, gentle beats, emotionally resonant without being ambient in the sleepy sense.

  Start with ‘Remind Me’, ‘Poor Leno’, ‘What Else Is There?’, ‘The Drug Is You’

• M83

  French electronic/shoegaze project — cinematic, melodic, and built for exactly the emotional register that Jesper Kyd and Darren Korb occupy in your library. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming is the masterpiece. Feels like a film score made of synths. Very different from Boards of Canada’s hazy lo-fi direction.

  Start with ‘Midnight City’, ‘Wait’, ‘Outro’, ‘Intro’, ‘Steve McQueen’

• Ólafur Arnalds

  Icelandic composer mixing minimalist piano with ambient electronics — you had him in your Optimistic Chill playlist early on, which means he already clicked at least once. Sits right between your game score love and lo-fi chill playlists, and pairs naturally with Jon Hopkins. Worth a proper full-album listen rather than a one-off track.

  Start with ‘Near Light’, ‘Brot’, ‘Only the Winds’, re: remember album

• Jon Hopkins (deeper cuts)

  You have Halcyon with 97 plays — that’s one track off Opalescent. The deeper catalog is very different and worth the dig: Immunity is more driving club-adjacent electronic, Singularity goes ambient/spiritual. Both are excellent and neither sounds like Halcyon.

  Start with Immunity album — ‘Open Eye Signal’, ‘Sun Harmonics’; Singularity — ‘Emerald Rush’

90s and 00s alt-rock adjacent

Based on Matchbox Twenty, Goo Goo Dolls, Counting Crows, Tonic, Collective Soul being your most-loved artists.

• Semisonic

  Already added

  Already in your Inbox — 6 tracks added including Chemistry, Secret Smile, and This Will Be My Year. Deep cut recommendation: the album Feeling Strangely Fine has more depth than the Greatest Hits version suggests. Great Divide (their follow-up) is underrated.

  Start with Already in Inbox — explore Feeling Strangely Fine and Great Divide albums

• Seven Mary Three

  Pure 90s alt-rock sitting right between Collective Soul and Fuel in your library — both of which are solid performers in your data. Cumbersome was a radio staple you’d recognize immediately. The album American Standard holds up well.

  Start with ‘Cumbersome’, ‘Water’s Edge’, ‘Times Like These’, ‘My My’

• Howie Day

  Already added

  Perfect Time of Day is in your Inbox. If that clicks, Stop All the World Now is the full album — She Says, Be There, and Collide are all at the same emotional register as your Lifehouse/Rob Thomas core.

  Start with Already in Inbox — add Stop All the World Now album if Perfect Time of Day lands

• Vertical Horizon

  Already added

  Miracle is in your Inbox. That album Everything You Want has ‘You’re a God’ and ‘Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning)’ which are both fully in your 2000s alt-rock comfort zone.

  Start with Already in Inbox — add full Everything You Want album

• Augustana

  Already added

  Five tracks in your Inbox including Stars and Boulevards and Coffee and Cigarettes. These are the deeper cuts from All the Stars and Boulevards. If they resonate, Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt is the sophomore follow-up.

  Start with Already in Inbox — add Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt if the Inbox tracks land

• Toad the Wet Sprocket

  Your library loves Counting Crows and Sister Hazel’s acoustic-leaning, emotionally direct alt-rock. Toad is exactly that — All I Want is one of the great overlooked songs of the early 90s alt era. Fear and Dulcinea are both excellent full albums.

  Start with ‘All I Want’, ‘Walk on the Ocean’, ‘Something’s Always Wrong’, ‘Fall Down’

Acoustic, folk, coffeehouse: a new direction

Morning Coffeehouse Serenity is a brand new playlist with no prior precedent in your library. These recommendations develop that direction further based on what’s already in it.

• Iron & Wine

  Already on your Morning Coffeehouse Serenity playlist — this is about going deeper into the catalog rather than a new discovery. The Creek Drank the Cradle and Our Endless Numbered Days are the essential records. Quiet, intimate, acoustic. If the playlist track landed, the albums will too.

  Start with ‘Naked As We Came’, ‘Flightless Bird’, ‘Fever Dream’, ‘Passing Afternoon’

• Gregory Alan Isakov

  Colorado folk artist who sits exactly in the gap between Ray LaMontagne’s weathered Americana and Bon Iver’s atmospheric folk. This Empty Northern Hemisphere is one of the best folk records of the last 20 years and almost no one knows it.

  Start with ‘The Stable Song’, ‘3 a.m.’, ‘Big Black Car’, ‘That Sea, the Gambler’

• The Head and the Heart

  Seattle folk-rock band — big harmonies, acoustic-driven, sits right between Fleet Foxes and a more accessible Counting Crows. Signs of Light is probably their most accessible album, but the debut is the one.

  Start with ‘Lost in My Mind’, ‘Rivers and Roads’, ‘Down in the Valley’

• Lord Huron

  Cinematic folk-rock with a slightly mythic, storytelling quality. Strange Trails is the album — it sounds like a movie soundtrack made entirely of campfire songs. Very compatible with your film score love + new folk direction.

  Start with ‘The Night We Met’, ‘Fool for Love’, ‘Long Lost’

• Novo Amor

  Welsh ambient folk — the intersection of your coffeehouse direction and your ambient/atmospheric cluster. Quiet, layered, no drums, intimate production. If Iron & Wine is clicking for you, this is the natural next step. Repeat Until Death and Birthplace are the albums to start with.

  Start with ‘Anchor’, ‘Carry You’, ‘State Lines’, ‘Repeat Until Death’

• Mt. Joy

  Indie folk-rock with warm production — sits between Vance Joy’s accessibility and Fleet Foxes’ texture. Their self-titled debut has an easy, unhurried feel that maps well to what Morning Coffeehouse Serenity is going for.

  Start with ‘Cardinal’, ‘Astrovan’, ‘Silver Lining’, ‘Younger Days’

Acoustic and instrumental covers

You have “Creative Covers” and “Pop Goes Classical” playlists — here’s more to fill them.

• The Piano Guys

  Cello + piano arrangements of pop and classical crossovers — perfect for your Pop Goes Classical playlist and Creative Covers. They’ve covered everything from One Direction to Beethoven with genuine skill.

  Start with ‘A Thousand Years’, ‘Let It Go’, ‘Titanium/Pavane’

• Brooklyn Duo

  Cello and piano duo doing intimate, warmly-recorded covers of contemporary songs — closer in feel to The Piano Guys but more understated and less theatrical. No jazz influence, no excessive arranging. Just two instruments done beautifully. Covers everything from Radiohead to Billie Eilish.

  Start with ‘Creep’, ‘bad guy’, ‘A Thousand Years’, ‘Comptine d’un autre été’

• Vitamin String Quartet (select albums only)

  Previous suggestion flagged as too much violin — but their piano-forward and softer chamber albums are a different story. Their Radiohead and Bon Iver tribute albums in particular lean cello/viola rather than violin-heavy. Worth sampling those specific records rather than their catalog broadly.

  Start with VSQ Performs Radiohead, VSQ Performs Bon Iver — sample before committing

• Sleeping At Last

  Folk/indie artist known for achingly beautiful piano-driven covers and originals. His Atlas series and cover albums are widely used in film/TV. Very much in your acoustic/melancholy space.

  Start with ‘Saturn’, ‘Two’, Covers album series

• Acoustic covers — pending

  Vitamin String Quartet and PostModern Jukebox were previous suggestions here that had the right concept but wrong execution — too much jazz, too much violin. Softer acoustic cover recommendations coming in a future pass once there’s more data on what’s landing in the coffeehouse/folk direction.

  Start with Check back after the next library pass

Game music and lo-fi expansions

Based on your OCRemix collection, GENTLE LOVE, Mikel & GameChops, and nintendo lofi playlist.

• Lena Raine

  Composed the Celeste soundtrack — one of the most acclaimed game scores in recent memory. Sits in your C418/ambient lane but with more emotional narrative arc. Also composed for Guild Wars 2 and Chicory.

  Start with ‘Resurrections’, ‘Exhale’, ‘Reach for the Summit’

• Mikel & GameChops

  Already added

  Already a library staple with 262 plays — the Inbox batch right now is built around GameChops collab artists (Rozen, Sixth Station Trio, Curly, Super Piano 64). That’s the active discovery thread. Once the Inbox settles, the plays data will tell you exactly which GameChops sub-artists to add fully vs. pass on.

  Start with Currently in Inbox — let plays decide

• Lena Raine

  Already added

  33 plays accumulated without being actively pushed — that’s passive discovery working as intended. Celeste OST is the core record. She also composed for Guild Wars 2 and Chicory: A Colorful Tale. Worth adding the full Celeste and Chicory soundtracks if you haven’t.

  Start with Celeste OST full album, Chicory: A Colorful Tale OST

• GameChops

  You already have Mikel & GameChops in your library — but there’s a full GameChops catalog of lo-fi, jazz, and chill arrangements of game music. Perfect for your nintendo lofi playlist expansion.

  Start with GameChops Zelda arrangements, GameChops lo-fi collections

• Rozen

  OCRemix veteran who’s done some of the most acclaimed arrangements on the site — if you’re curating your OCRemix collection, Rozen is a reliable name to specifically seek out.

  Start with Search ‘Rozen’ on OCRemix.org for full catalog

• Austin Wintory

  Composed the Journey (PS3) and Abzû soundtracks — atmospheric, orchestral game scoring that sits exactly between Jesper Kyd’s AC2 work and Darren Korb’s Bastion. One of the most acclaimed game scores of the last 15 years, and acoustically very close to what your top-played tracks sound like.

  Start with Journey OST — ‘Apotheosis’, ‘Nascence’; Abzû OST — ‘Abyss’