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The ‘sort’ feature added to Spotify playlists is antithetical to the entire concept of a playlist, which, like the mixtape, is supposed to be a well curated collection of songs delivered in order to tell a certain emotional message. Rearranging the songs into an order as banal as title or artist entirely rewrites the story I spent hours, days, months adding to and adjusting accordingly. Spotify’s so far up the binary ass of the computer overlord they’ve forgotten what human intuition looks like, forgotten the importance of irrationality in how we order ourselves and our lives. Music is an oft-used medium of the mystics, and it‘s the ineffable, un-categorizable confluence of sounds and feelings that influence god-like visions and euphoric sensations enabling a spiritual and sometimes physical transcendence beyond these mortal binds. The sort option is disrespectfully counterintuitive to the role music has always played in elevating our spiritual consciousness, and denigrates the very artists we depend on for this deliverance by reducing these feelings to a name or title and not some cosmic order we encountered as listeners in pursuit of Feeling Better.
May 3, 2025
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I use a webtool (Sort Your Music Playlist Machinery) to sort my Spotify playlists by a variety of metadata values eg danceability, valence, etc. The one I’ve found to be most enjoyable is BPM, in a larger playlist (500 or so songs) it makes sure that almost every track has a really nice no-crossfade transition to the next one, with the consistent tempo allowing a strong vibe to develop akin to a good DJ set
Dec 17, 2024
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I curate the vibes from beginning to end. I am told that is a weird request to make of people when I make them a playlist. I think I am just taking someone on a journey- plus transitioning from one song to another flawlessly always itches my brain in a satisfying way.
Apr 16, 2024
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When I make a playlist, the two things I like to think about are cohesiveness (do these songs sound good together, is there a jarring transition between tracks, do they communicate complimentary things (that can be sound, tone, genre, even a sort of consistent instrumental motif)), and texture (is this interesting, is it samey, or too easy listening)
When I think about Spotify’s daylist, it can sometimes be samey— they pick songs I like, but one after another they blend into coffeehouse music. What you have, that the algorithm will never have, is taste and an ear for the narrative of a playlist. I tend to make 8 tracks, because that’s what fit on my CDs; try starting with a track number.
Aug 29, 2024
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Believing the rest of your life can start today (but not succumbing to the weight of that, which I’ve yet to figure out how to do).
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I love being a barista because it is so fun to not pay for coffee and taste horrifying extractions and bizarre customer creations (extra sweet caramel single shot breve iced) and take home what we can’t sell to customers. Behold the darkness of week old cold brew concentrate! A true depth of darkness only understood in certain light, black as midnight on a moonless night! Yum yum can’t wait have it with breakfast and feel each blood vessel moving through every artery!
May 26, 2025
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I don’t know if this applies to everyone as we seem to be peak hustle culture to survive the gig economy but I have a lot of free time, so much free time it’s overwhelming, that I pander in all sorts of unhelpful ways. Just saw something about someone who makes exquisite jewelry in their free time, it not being their day job, and am having a long hard think about how tired I really am when I claim to be too tired to work on the thing I claim to want to do…I also think about kids my age getting married and who may start having kids in the next few years (aside from the ones who already have) and how much of a time drain that is and how some day I’ll probably look back on this point and think I was swimming in time. Would probably help to start on the phone addiction first…Sometimes I think it’s possible I’m not as tired as I am, like focusing on how tired I am, trying to measure exactly how heavy my bones feel, only amplifies my tiredness into perceived exhaustion and maybe if I didn’t think about it so much it wouldn’t be as real as I let it, like the cold in winter.
May 27, 2025