The World's Oldest Communication Protocol Is Music
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Automate Spotify and YouTube Playlists - Chapter 3: Setting Up YouTube
Spotify is sorted. Now we go to YouTube's side. The goal of this chapter is simple: get a YouTube API key and find the ID of the YouTube playlist we w…
Automate Spotify and YouTube Playlists - The Complete Series
Have you ever liked a YouTube playlist so much that you want to take it with you to Spotify? This series walks you through building a Python script th…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …