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Most popular SmarterPlaylists components
As of this morning, there have been 1,363 SmarterPlaylist programs written. Currently there are 300 SmarterPlaylist jobs running periodically. I was wondering what were the most popular components,...
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Smarter Playlists – My Top Tracks
I’ve just added a new Smarter Playlists component called My Top Tracks. This track source will generate a list of the top 50 tracks from your recent listening history. You can choose from 3 different...
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Girl Talk In A Box update
I’ve pushed out some updates to GirlTalkInABox – there are now some nifty filters (chorus, phaser, delay and wahwah), and you can interactively adjust the playback rate of the song. A few other minor...
View ArticleIs this thing on …
Woah, its been a while since I’ve posted to this blog (three and a half years to be exact). I think it’s time for a bit of a reboot on this blog. Stay tuned!
View ArticleMusic Machinery Chapter 2
I’ve spent the last 15 or so years thinking mostly about the machinery that gets music from the bits in an audio recording into the ears of a listener. There are dozens of examples of tools for music...
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How Generative Music Works
Tero Parvianen has en excellent introduction to Generative Music with lots of live examples. Well worth 20 minutes of your time with lots of food for thought. How Generative Music Works
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The World’s First MachineLearning-enabled musical keyboard !?!
Today Amazon released AWS DeepComposer which is a keyboard that will let you “create a melody that will transform into a completely original song in seconds”. To me it looks like an Arturia Keystep...
View ArticleDuke Listens! returns (again)
A few months ago, we finally shutdown the final remnants of the old Echo Nest infrastructure. One of casualties of this final shutdown was the archive of my old blog Duke Listens! that I authored...
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My favorite blog post of all time
I’ve been reading blogs seemingly forever. I’ve read lots of great posts .. but there’s one blog post that I still think about all the time even though it is nearly 5 years old. It’s by Sascha Judd...
View ArticleMusic Machinery on Substack
I fondly recall the Google Reader days when lots of folks were reading long form content. With the demise of Google Reader, and the rise of Twitter, TikTok and Instagram, long form content drifted...
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