Guides
Everything you need to get your listening history out of the streaming services, into Stick, and working for you, plus a look under the hood at how the matching and stats actually work.
Getting your data out
Every major music service will hand over your full play history if you ask the right way. These guides walk through each service's export, step by step, and explain what's actually in the files you get back.
Export your Apple Music play history
Request your Play Activity file from privacy.apple.com, the one file that contains every play, not just your library.
Get your Spotify extended streaming history
Request the full multi-year export (not the 1-year summary), and know what to expect in the JSON files.
Export your Last.fm scrobbles as CSV
Get your complete scrobble history out of Last.fm, whether you have two hundred plays or two hundred thousand.
Importing into Stick
Stick accepts all three export formats and works out the rest itself: duplicates are detected before anything is written, and the same listen recorded by two different services is collapsed into one.
Importing your listening history
The scan-then-import flow: what the duplicate scan checks, what the counts mean, and what happens after you click Import.
How duplicates are handled across services
The three layers that stop one listen being counted twice, at import time, across services, and by MusicBrainz recording.
Live tracking
File imports capture the past; live connections capture everything from today onwards, automatically.
Using Stick
Once your plays are in, here's how to read the stats, share what you choose to share, and keep your data portable.
Understanding your listening stats
Streaks, the listening clock, plays by year, genres, and what the time-period filters actually count.
Following friends and sharing your profile
The follow system, the shared timeline, and the visibility controls that decide who sees what.
Backing up and exporting your data
Download your whole library as a single file, restore it later, or take it somewhere else entirely.
Under the hood
Stick leans on MusicBrainz, the open music encyclopedia, to clean and connect your plays. These guides explain what that means in practice.