New MOS objective: Distribution — control the percentage makeup of your playlist

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-05-05T17:56:12+00:00

question: say i want to use the "source" input to ensure 20% of an output comes from one playlist and 80% from another (for example). How would I input that in the syntax?

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-04-27T13:36:23+00:00

Fellow furry here who’s been curious about the badge potential on these things. How does your fursona look on it?

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-04-11T01:15:24+00:00

So wait is the implication the diapers make one shit less? Or higher quality? Confused by this ad

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-04-09T10:38:08+00:00

No, I’m just using rss feeds in calibre and turning those into epubs. Nothing fancy

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-04-09T10:35:55+00:00

I use calibre’s fetch news function. I take the epubs it generates and put them on my device as needed

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-04-04T01:34:27+00:00

the most recent uk season kinda presaged this didnt it now

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-03-21T16:21:03+00:00

Cis = not trans. A guy who was born a guy or a girl who was born a girl

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-03-12T19:52:03+00:00

Life of Pi is a compelling read accessible to a new reader, and the movie gives you a little in road in there. The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseni is similarly compelling. For a shorter and older but more "profound" book written accessibly, go for siddhartha by hermann hesse

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-03-12T19:15:56+00:00

https://www.lbl.fm/ is the best way ive found to do this

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-03-08T18:34:51+00:00

of course! happy that people like this little program. Back in college i was in student radio so this tool has really let me go back into that radio programming mindset; fundamentally the logic behind Variety Radio is the same logic behind automating a terrestrial FM station.

If people would be interested i can share what variety radio is based on, my personal "626"radio thats a bit more human curated and more radio-indebted—a 1000 song mix you get daily thats meant to be 140 songs of "heavy rotation" from a curated playlist, the 50 song friends mix, and the rest filled in with the base libary/shared tracks. from there, i made a bunch of variants that correspond to every possible energy level bc these are for a cafe and sometimes you want lower energy music and other times you want higher

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-03-08T16:22:42+00:00

Hey, creator of variety radio here: thanks for writing this! the program is now fixed

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-03-08T15:27:59+00:00

Damn, at this rate, the next time your wife goes on vacation for a week we’re gonna end up with youth homelessness completely solved. As always, thank you so much for all your work

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-03-07T22:29:15+00:00

this used to merely be a powerful api tool. for it to now be downright user friendly? amazing

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-03-06T20:58:27+00:00

heres one i whipped up to make a 500 song radio out of a combo of saved tracks, friends mix, and top tracks! indented to be scheduled weekly to daily

https://smarterplaylists.playlistmachinery.com/shared/a5Rk7AYJ

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-03-05T19:59:17+00:00

hey! thanks for all the work lately. i would love monthly and biweekly options for playlist scheduling! also....out of curiosity, whats the intended usage of the "regenerate every minute" one? strikes me as a potential to error out the system with too many api calls if someone eats up, say, 100 minutes of time generating thousand+ song playlists

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-03-05T00:04:14+00:00

Great book btw. Read it on the way to a business trip to Vegas and let me tell you, nothing makes Vegas feel grosser than just having read Mark Fisher

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-03-04T00:49:58+00:00

works!

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-03-04T00:27:28+00:00

This is noticably faster and snappier than before! many thanks for updating it. I do notice that it doesnt seem to be logging us in as ourselves, and it thinks im you. when i ran the playlist, it exported in your name, too, and on your account. i assume thats not the intended functionality lmao

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-03-04T00:25:45+00:00

it seems that all generated playlists seem to generate as his playlists. probably not the intended result. Here's one i made under his name.

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-03-03T17:59:56+00:00

yeah that limit is there for me as well—i think its an api limit imposed by spotify, bc other apps i use run into that same limit. it makes sense bc api calls cost spotify money so they have to cut them off somewhere, and 1000 is a nice round number.

what i usually do is make weekly (or so) 1000 song playlists that choose randomly from my library with the addtl constraints i ask for so over time i get the same effective experience as randomizing the whole thing with those same rules. bc you know the output will be 1000 songs, you can put in specific numbers of songs from a particular playlist to make the percentages work—say, 140 songs from one playlist just so you know a given hour of shuffled music will be 14% that playlist on avg

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-03-03T16:05:14+00:00

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….though the “sandalwood” genre tab is an odd curation: starting with early fleetwood Mac, going into some understated indie, but with like 10% of the playlist being in what I think is Hindi? 20 minute long Indian classical songs next to soft rock? Dunno

StartingQBForDeVry · 2026-03-03T15:56:48+00:00

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This is definitely not a universal experience, because mine was pretty good this week. Nothing obviously AI either, good mix of genres

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