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My Music Playlists

I don't do a lot with playlists. Mostly, I just star songs and play them randomly. There are a few that are important to me though.

The Liked Songs

First things, first. This isn't what I'd call a playlist. It's just the 5,548 songs I've liked on spotify as of Dec. 2023

The Uplifting Playlist

I need to do a write up about this one. It's the music I go to when my brain goes sideways

I'm not exaggerating when I say this playlist has saved my life

Single Songs To Loop

Wearing headphones is a constant. The way the music plays changes. I go through phases where I'll put a single song on repeat for, no joke, three days.

HIAM's Summer Girl, for example.

I mean, just listen to the bari sax lick ffs.

Anyway, here's a playlist of some songs that I loop like that.

Other Playlists

Here's a few other ones I started putting together years ago with different paces.

I haven't really touched them in years, but now that I'm writing this post they are back in my brain a little. tbd on updates.

Super Chill

Relatively Chill

Chill Approaching Groove

Definite Groove

Driving

Notes

  • The spotify web player stops for me at 100, your mileage may vary unless you click into the app

  • I go back and forth between spotify and youtube Music. I'm using spotify more these days because of the "AI DJ"

  • The spotify worked pretty well to start but then started feeding back on itself and kept saying I'd been listening a lot to the music it played me so it was going to play it again... Like, no robot, I want new stuff

  • One of these days I'll write an app so I can just manage a playlist in one place and have every music service use it. There's stuff out there that does that, but the ones I've seen are free apps that require giving your log-in credentials too. That means I'm the product and I'd have to give them my keys to use it. Some of them may be fine at the moment but there's no good way to be certain they are and it's impossible to know what they'll do in the future. That's not a risk I'm willing to take for playlist sync.

  • I expect there's open-source code out there for syncing that I'd totally be down for after a review. Digging into that is on my back-burner list.