Just requested my data. They have noted "Preparation time 30 days" :/ What takes so long?

It typically shows up in a few days in the most extreme cases (10k+ artists, 200k+ songs played) the first time, sooner after that

> They have noted "Preparation time 30 days" :/ What takes so long?

There's probably one person nursing some horrific bogslop software that frequently breaks but absolutely cannot be rewritten or changed (because it was someone's pet project) and frequently has to be manually twizzled to get things out of what is probably a hostile data retrieval environment and they're just TIRED and that's why there's a 30 day leeway because otherwise the Data Retrieval Goblin would be way over the line of overwhelmed rather than just under it all the time.

Probably.

(I realise I've likely described a significant percentage of companies there.)

It's the maximum time allowed by GDPR but it usually is way faster, depending on how much data you have.

Discouraging you to do it again.