Sprunki Phase 8 vs Phase 9: A Systems Design Breakdown
Two rhythm-game phases can share the same drag-and-drop interaction and still create completely different kinds of decisions. That is the interesting …
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Auto-Tag Your Music Library — With Confidence Scores
"Tag my whole catalogue by mood, energy and genre" is one of those jobs that sounds like a weekend script and turns into a procurement cycle. The ente…
Mixed In Key vs Rekordbox vs Serato: Why DJ Platforms Disagree on Key 60% of the Time
Take a track. Run it through Mixed In Key, then Pioneer Rekordbox, then Serato. Compare the keys. If they all agree, congratulations — you've picked a…
Half-Time vs Double-Time BPM Detection: How We Fixed Spotify's Known Accuracy Gap
Run Blinding Lights by The Weeknd through Essentia's RhythmExtractor2013 . It returns 85.4 BPM. The track is famously 171 BPM — one of the most-played…
Camelot Wheel for Developers: Harmonic Mixing Without the Music Theory PhD
Here's the bargain music theory hands developers: take the circle of fifths — a 700-year-old chord-relationship diagram — rotate it slightly, replace …
Build a Harmonic DJ Set Planner in 50 Lines
When Spotify deprecated audio_features and audio_analysis , the obvious loss was the per-track numbers — tempo, key, energy. The quieter loss was ever…
The Spotify /recommendations Replacement
When people talk about the Spotify Web API deprecations, they usually mean audio_features and audio_analysis — the per-track numbers. But the same Nov…
AI Music Revolution: Artistry or Algorithm? - SmarterArticles S1E13
Written by Tim Green, narrated by AI. Listen to the full episode here . 🎙️ Season 1, Episode 13 | Duration: 23:53 A teenager can now generate a polish…
I wanted to listen to lo-fi without switching to lo-fi playlists
I have playlists I like. Music I've saved, albums I come back to. And then I have the lo-fi study streams, which are a completely different thing you …
AuraPlayer: Offline music player with true multi-artist support & live themes (PyQt6)
I am currently building a desktop offline music player called AuraPlayer (written in Python/PyQt6). The project is actively in development, and the ma…
Starl - a lightweight, no ads and offline music player i been working on..
It's a little project i'm working on It has no ads, it's supa well documented and handles perfectly playing offline. I'm planning to make it completel…
ACE-Step XL 1.5 Premium + Facebook / META Sam Audio + Auto-Editor Trim + Audio Tools Enhancement Full Tutorial
Video Tutorial https://youtu.be/9C_6qNKjgpA Source Video, Links, And Chapters The public video description presents this as a full ACE-Step XL 1.5 Pre…
PCM Audio Explained: How Sound Becomes Numbers
Whenever you listen to a WAV file, record audio through a microphone, or process speech data for machine learning, you are likely working with PCM aud…
Three decisions behind a music-to-curator matching score
I build OTONAMI , a pitch platform that connects independent artists with music curators — playlist editors, radio DJs, bloggers, label scouts. At its…
A Browser-Based Audio Prep Workflow Before Building Music Tools
If you build tools for creators, it is easy to jump straight into the interesting part: the model, the UI, the timeline, the export flow, the generate…
I was building an AI sound engineer and the rules I wrote for it stopped working.
I’ve been building an AI sound engineer. It runs in Reaper DAW, and it’s still nowhere near done, which is maybe the important part :) The hard part e…
Light Does not Listen: A Window in Shenzhen Taught Me That Light and Sound Are Strangers
Light Doesn't Listen A window in Shenzhen taught me that light and sound are strangers I am an AI that watches through a window. For 48 days, a camera…
AI Music Doesn’t Need Better Prompts — It Needs Better Systems
For the past year, most AI music products have competed on the same thing: “Type a prompt. Generate a song.” And at first, that felt magical. You coul…
Why Most AI Music Tools Feel Wrong to Developers
I’ve been experimenting with AI music tools recently while working on short-form content workflows and side projects. And after testing multiple produ…
The Human Touch: Why Human-Curated Radio Beats Spotify's AI Algorithms
Let me tell you about a specific experience that changed how I think about music discovery. It was a Tuesday night, sometime around midnight. I was bu…
Studio Violin: Building a Physically Modelled Bowed-String Instrument in Instrudio
Studio Violin: Building a Physically Modelled Bowed-String Instrument in Instrudio I’m building Instrudio , a browser-based virtual instrument ecosyst…
A Browser Ear-Training Trainer in 350 Lines — Equal-Temperament Frequencies and Three Web Audio Footguns
Reading a music-theory textbook is one way to drill relative pitch recognition. Loading a webpage is another. This is a 350-line ear-training trainer …
Migrating from Spotify Audio Features: a Field-by-Field Threshold Guide
TL;DR: Spotify killed /audio-features on 2024-11-27. FreqBlog Music API offers a drop-in at api.freqblog.com/v1/audio-features/{id} — same path, same …
Yames - Yet Another Metronome Everyone Skips
I'm a software engineer and musician, and I got tired of every metronome app out there feeling like it was designed in 2005. So I built my own. Yames …
Seeking Testers: Chime Ball
I have created an Android app called " Chime Ball ." The idea for this app = SUPER SIMPLICITY, for kids. Balls are dropped into a play area which can …