https://omanshuthapliyal.github.io/tags/music/Recent content in Music on Omanshu ThapliyalHugoenFri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://omanshuthapliyal.github.io/blog/my-listening/Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0700https://omanshuthapliyal.github.io/blog/my-listening/<p>Terrible pun aside, I realized that I had recently completed 10 years of listening on Spotify and wanted to dig a little bit into my listening habits, especially how they have evolved over time. Though admittedly, my listening habits have changed a lot and I no longer find as much time to explore new artists (at least as much as I would like to), I thought maybe I should get my hands on some of that sweet Spotify data for about a decade and maybe do some exploratory data analysis. I realized that Spotify makes it a little difficult to get your hands on your own account lifetime data, but after a couple days of requesting, I received a small .zip file with data for ~41,000 tracks heard in about 10 years.</p>https://omanshuthapliyal.github.io/blog/instrumental/Sun, 28 Jul 2019 16:02:49 -0400https://omanshuthapliyal.github.io/blog/instrumental/<p>I often talk to friends about music and musical preferences. This post is inspired by one such theme which often finds its way in most of these conversations: instrumental music v/s vocal music. Or more precisely, <em>why listen to instrumental, or plain music, when you can have vocals accompanying the music</em>.</p> <p>This post is not from a musical perspective, but rather to emphasize on the entirely separate form of beauty inherent in instrumental music. Personally, I think the term <em>instrumental</em> music is somewhat a misnomer for this discussion. Let&rsquo;s just call the two lyrical music, and lyric-less music.</p>