I think the unstated assumption is that the reader has an existing music library. Where that library came from is an excercise left to the reader. I use bittorrent, which I admit is a little morally smelly, but I justify it by buying vinyl albums of any artists I listen a lot to. It'd take a lot of Spotify listens to match the money to the artist of buying a single album from the band website. Lots of vinyl comes with digital downloads too. When I'm at home, physical media is fucking rad. I mean, I can unplug the turntable, spin it by hand, and hear the music directly from the needle. No software, no gadgets. It's so primal, like the artist is whispering to me. I hadn't realized how much I lost switching to Pandora until I switched back to physical media.
Given an existing collection - Is there an easy way to auto sort & tag everything? e.g. Merge the artists 'Guns N Roses' and 'Guns and Roses' into the most correct one.
I can't justify the time to do it manually and feel like if I just wait long enough a turn-key AI solution will pop up.
I don't usually recommend software that isn't open source, but MusicBee is really great for organizing tunes. You can build really deep auto playlists based on any tag you like, you can do bulk updates across lots of fields, you can have it reorganize files into folders around any of the tags, including with fallbacks for missing tags, there's configurations to download metadata from online, all kinds of stuff. Plus it's a super customizable music player too.
I can't justify the time to go torrent music every time I want to try something new. I don't have a "small list" of artists, I listen to tons of artists and if I immortalized it with a torrented library, how would I ever find new music?
Somehow we did it before spotify :). Browse forums. See what people are talking about. Follow local venues and see who is coming to town. Read about different artists. Different producers. Different record companies. Fall down the rabbit hole. You don’t need an algorithm to tell you what to listen to. Take the reigns. It’s a hobby right? Lean in.
There're recommendations in these comments that can solve the automating and downloading part of it but they still don't solve the discovery part of it.
The only way I see is - use Spotify to discover; sync your library using said software to collect and play later.
I do not know what you are listening to, but for my kind od music I have few webpages that I can visit for new and old releases. I can filter for example by genre and see few yt videos with to see if this is something I would like. Then you can download it or buy it. This is a lot od work but I would never discover few bands 'the spotify way'. Like i.e. Austrian Death Machine.
> Given an existing collection - Is there an easy way to auto sort & tag everything? e.g. Merge the artists 'Guns N Roses' and 'Guns and Roses' into the most correct one.
I've recently started using Beets[1] to organize my music collection. It's a command line application that IMHO is not entirely intuitive to use at first. But once you get the hang of it, it works incredibly well.
> same. super convenient to be able to go to photos.[domain].com for my photos. the immich android app is great too.
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> cloudflare tunnels is a game changer, I can't believe it's free.
Could you explain cloudflare tunnels are secure. I understand not punching holes through one's firewall and dealing with a residential connection that's often targeted for exploits. However, if one targets the tunnel endpoint to exploit is it more secure even though it's still exposed to the public?
Check out pangolin. You can get all the awesome of cloudflare tunnela without having your traffic sold to dat aggregators. Jims garge on youtube just did a decent video on it.
There's plenty of bad human therapists. It's hard to vet quality of care when you're in crisis and bad therapists can cause great harm.
Im pretty bullish on AI therapy agents, at least for mechanistic-ish stuff like CBT where emotional attachment to the therapist isn't super important.
TFA is complaining about cloud software, not AI therapists. Totally agree with that complaint. But LLMs can run locally, and cloud software can be wrapped in enough regulations to stay private.
They have internal highly secure chat systems with locked down hardware. They probably prefer Signal as it is not logging everything they say for internal review and they can chat with friends, business people, lobbyists. Just guessing.
My theory is based on my own experience of running my own locked down chat systems. Most people will prefer Discord but will use my systems in the rare cases Discord goes offline for a prolonged period of time.
Government officials are required to record their communications. Signal is also not approved for secure communications. And while Signal the protocol and company might be secure, the phones it runs are not.
Lowering the cognitive effort required to acquire the new information makes it more broadly available. Both to people that couldn't comprehend the source material, and to those that could, but don't want to spend the cognitive energy.
I can understand the argument that we should avoid dumbing down our media, but this is a weird battle to pick. Go throw stones at youtube shorts if you're worried about modern media liquifying humanity's frontal cortex.
Bigotry? Most papers are written in a way (style and content), that makes them difficult for an everyday person, meaning someone not trained in that specific field of study, to understand.
Just use common sense, assume all aerosols are toxic, then temper your concerns by remembering the frequency of your exposure to that toxin, and compare it mentally to how much garbage we inhale walking around the average city.
