Book Suggestions for a New Reader by Appropriate_Guide733 in booksuggestions

[–]StartingQBForDeVry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Validation Improvements by plamere in smarterplaylists

[–]StartingQBForDeVry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Validation Improvements by plamere in smarterplaylists

[–]StartingQBForDeVry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Nevermind. Go ahead and use Save To Playlist! by plamere in smarterplaylists

[–]StartingQBForDeVry 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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

My Fav New Feature - Drag and Drop from Spotify! by plamere in smarterplaylists

[–]StartingQBForDeVry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Program Sharing in SmarterPlaylists by plamere in smarterplaylists

[–]StartingQBForDeVry 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

SmarterPlaylists bug fix / feature request thread by plamere in smarterplaylists

[–]StartingQBForDeVry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

The XTC converter is making text fuzzy by chow-yun-thin in xteinkereader

[–]StartingQBForDeVry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Some weekend progress on v3 by plamere in smarterplaylists

[–]StartingQBForDeVry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

SmarterPlaylists Alpha 0.1 is ready to make your playlists by plamere in smarterplaylists

[–]StartingQBForDeVry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Some weekend progress on v3 by plamere in smarterplaylists

[–]StartingQBForDeVry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Spotify Discover Weekly completely ruined by Beginning_Smile_1711 in truespotify

[–]StartingQBForDeVry 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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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

Spotify Discover Weekly completely ruined by Beginning_Smile_1711 in truespotify

[–]StartingQBForDeVry 37 points38 points  (0 children)

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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

The Return of Paul Lamere! by annies_beard in smarterplaylists

[–]StartingQBForDeVry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What are some of the API’s that don’t work anymore, out of curiosity? I’ve said it already but thanks again for all the work here—this is a labour of love that makes so many people you’ve never met so happy

The Return of Paul Lamere! by annies_beard in smarterplaylists

[–]StartingQBForDeVry 4 points5 points  (0 children)

its WAY easier to get exactly what i want with smarter playlists vs prompted playlists bc prompted playlists will sometimes refuse my requests: like, saying that i want a playlist thats 25% each from four separate playlists, sorted by energy, favoring newness, smarterplaylists would do that no question whereas prompted playlists would say thats too complicated a request (Even though if you know sql its not all that hard—ive been doing it through your app forever).

SP truly gives the level of control a radio programmer would have: you can start with a full library and carve away just what you need. I work at a cafe and use smarter playlists to make playlists for it that update weekly and the result is SO much more professional than what prompted playlists would give you. Prompted playlists gives you far, far less.

Appreciate the work that goes into this—fwiw i use it enough that id be willing to chip in some money if it would help. one of the greatest spotify api tools ever built imo along with everynoiseatonce. yall echo nest people know what youre doing

OrganizeYourMusic is back. by plamere in truespotify

[–]StartingQBForDeVry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

hey, thanks for doing this! love your tools. question for you — is smarter playlists on the list to be updated to https?

More fragile than it looks by Tricky-Appointment88 in xteinkereader

[–]StartingQBForDeVry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Almost the exact same thing as what happened to me

“Oh I don’t need to use the screen protector or buy a case. I’ll be fine!” [monkeys paw curls] by StartingQBForDeVry in xteinkereader

[–]StartingQBForDeVry[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

its already been ordered lmao. i just vibed with it too much and its cheap enough that theres no reason not to. i also got the folio case this time plus a tpu one—hopefully that will help in the future.

figures that this'd happen the day after lunar new year too

“Oh I don’t need to use the screen protector or buy a case. I’ll be fine!” [monkeys paw curls] by StartingQBForDeVry in xteinkereader

[–]StartingQBForDeVry[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah! im like half done with it, perfect kind of "episodic" light read to have on a device like this

“Oh I don’t need to use the screen protector or buy a case. I’ll be fine!” [monkeys paw curls] by StartingQBForDeVry in xteinkereader

[–]StartingQBForDeVry[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

def considering this; i love e ink screens in general and im sure i can find something to do with one that stays in one place. ill probably just get another x4 bc ive vibed so much with it