Turning songs into sheet music: my audio-to-engraving pipeline, and 3 bugs that almost shipped
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Every track since 1994
I've made music as theverychap since 1994. It started on an Amiga A1200 with OctaMED, and the earliest stuff is likely what you'd expect from that:…
Grading piano timing in the browser with Web MIDI
I picked up piano again this year and wanted to connect my digital piano to my laptop, read real sheet music, and figure out which notes or beats I…
An Image Is Evidence, Not a Tempo: A Better Brief for Image-to-Music
Turning an image into music sounds like a direct conversion. It is better treated as an interpretation problem. A photograph does not contain a hidd…
I built a music-looping tool for TTRPGs and game prototypes with Python and Web Audio
The boss finishes their speech. Your players reach for their dice. This is where the music should kick in… …and nothing. Instead, the track enters a…
NIGHTCELL 7: When the Ravens Lied, a second Þrøngva album made in code
NIGHTCELL 7 has a second soundtrack album: When the Ravens Lied by Þrøngva, twelve new tracks in the same drop-D Viking metal and hip-hop style as A…
How I Built a Browser-Native DAW with Zero-Latency Pedal DSP and Free 24-Bit Exports
Hey Dev.to! 👋 I'm Ellis ( @zellisorange ). I recently launched Electric Baby Grand Studios (electricbaby.ca), a browser-native Digital Audio Works…
I Built a Real-Time Collaborative Sheet Music Editor — Here's What MusicXML and CRDTs Taught Me
I wanted a "Google Docs for sheet music": open a browser tab, start writing notation, share a URL, and have someone else edit the same score with yo…
ear training app with Web Audio API
I studied at a conservatory and we always used song mnemonics for intervals. Star Wars for a perfect fifth, Jaws for a minor second. Couldn't find a…
How to Find the Beat of a Song (BPM + Key)
Originally published on IFEELVOID . Play the song and count the pulse for 15 seconds. Multiply that number by four. If you counted 35 beats, the son…
The World's Oldest Communication Protocol Is Music
This is going to be a very different article from what I usually write. No technical discussions, architecture deep dives, or engineering practices…
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…
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…
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 interestin…
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 en…
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-play…
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 ev…
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 N…
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 poli…
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 P…
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 i…
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 genera…
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 came…
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 co…
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 pro…
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…
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 ecosy…
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, sam…
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. Yame…