Every Noise at Once
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everynoise.com and associated curiosity; see also @glennmcdonald.bsky.social
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I talked to PJ Wehry on the Chasing Leviathan podcast, and now you can hear us:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCTd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCTd...
Every Noise at Once: Spotify, Music Discovery, and Human Connection with Glenn McDonald #podcast
YouTube video by The Chasing Leviathan Podcast
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October 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I talked to PJ Wehry on the Chasing Leviathan podcast, and now you can hear us:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCTd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCTd...
The genre system we created at the Echo Nest and expanded for a subsequent decade at Spotify had, by its unnecessary demise, over 6500 genres, every one of them picked and guided by humans. The automated ML system that replaced it has 708 tags.
Every Noise at Once
everynoise.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The genre system we created at the Echo Nest and expanded for a subsequent decade at Spotify had, by its unnecessary demise, over 6500 genres, every one of them picked and guided by humans. The automated ML system that replaced it has 708 tags.
Sometimes I come across a very long playlist and I want a quick sense of how my own listening intersects with it. There are lots of ways to quantify this, but here's one of them in Curio query form (you can copy and paste the query from the alt-text):
![?28pRQNZyF8cHagMgrpLBOR.other playlists.tracks
/my artist=(.artists:@1.id.artists)
||apoints=(.my artist.counts.points...._,(1),total),alignment=[=apoints*count]#alignment](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v7a2vpz7hyepe2upz6bmxtxe/bafkreieoo53akq4co56g3sdod7hbojhkrlzgjt5ayjljkba5gvqjpkq3dy@jpeg)
July 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Sometimes I come across a very long playlist and I want a quick sense of how my own listening intersects with it. There are lots of ways to quantify this, but here's one of them in Curio query form (you can copy and paste the query from the alt-text):
If you're curious about how different streaming-royalty allocation schemes would affect you and your artists, or could be tempted into curiosity if you thought there was a way to see this, there's a way to see this:
furia.com/log/517
furia.com/log/517
July 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
If you're curious about how different streaming-royalty allocation schemes would affect you and your artists, or could be tempted into curiosity if you thought there was a way to see this, there's a way to see this:
furia.com/log/517
furia.com/log/517
People complain about Spotify's shuffle mode, and I never listen on shuffle so I don't care, but if you do, you can make your own in Curio:
tracks....shuffle/artist;.1:@<=100
Run that on the query page, and then save the results as a playlist.
tracks....shuffle/artist;.1:@<=100
Run that on the query page, and then save the results as a playlist.
July 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
People complain about Spotify's shuffle mode, and I never listen on shuffle so I don't care, but if you do, you can make your own in Curio:
tracks....shuffle/artist;.1:@<=100
Run that on the query page, and then save the results as a playlist.
tracks....shuffle/artist;.1:@<=100
Run that on the query page, and then save the results as a playlist.
Do not let the world's deluge of grievous wrongs numb you to your own tiny useless delightful errors.
July 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Do not let the world's deluge of grievous wrongs numb you to your own tiny useless delightful errors.
If you want to scrutinize algorithmic playlists Spotify makes for you, you can copy their tracks into normal playlists and then use Curio to run queries on those. E.g.:
playlists:~<[DW 2025-06-27].other playlists
.tracks.(.artists:@1).other artists
/label=(.artist catalogs.catalog.label)#count
playlists:~<[DW 2025-06-27].other playlists
.tracks.(.artists:@1).other artists
/label=(.artist catalogs.catalog.label)#count
![Screenshot of my Curio query page, showing this query:
playlists:~<[DW 2025-06-27].other playlists.tracks.(.artists:@1).other artists
/label=(.artist catalogs.catalog.label)#count
returning results like
283 label count↓ of
1 Independent 3 of [...3]
2 Art Gates Records 2 of [...2]
3 Artistfy Music 2 of [...2]
4 FRIENDSHIP. 2 of [...2]
5 QOOLONG 2 of [...2]
6 recordJet 2 of [...2]
7 1964251 Records DK2 1 of [Anteeter]
8 2019 We are Suburban 1 of [Rebecca Lou]
9 2023 maddy irene ©️ 1 of [maddy irene]
10 2023 Wormholedeath Records 1 of [Conspiracy of Blackness]
11 2074559 Records DK2 1 of [Re:O]
12 2080792 Records DK 1 of [DIGITAL LOVE]
13 210485 Manhatten Discs 1 of [DIGITAL LOVE]
14 2285049 Records DK 1 of [Crimson Crisis]
15 3105988 Records DK 1 of [Caldera]
16 3151900 Records DK2 1 of [The Hunt]
17 3304016 Records DK 1 of [DJ MIX-ICON]
18 3677236 Records DK2 1 of [Queen of Dreams]
19 3947540 Records DK2 1 of [DIGITAL LOVE]
20 5880853 Records DK2 1 of [Diamond Riot]
21 655386 Records DK 1 of [Gone Are the Days]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v7a2vpz7hyepe2upz6bmxtxe/bafkreid5dp2fogkz4tshefuqiebr7t73gvibyztsn7rundxkvcprqp2mxy@jpeg)
July 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
If you want to scrutinize algorithmic playlists Spotify makes for you, you can copy their tracks into normal playlists and then use Curio to run queries on those. E.g.:
playlists:~<[DW 2025-06-27].other playlists
.tracks.(.artists:@1).other artists
/label=(.artist catalogs.catalog.label)#count
playlists:~<[DW 2025-06-27].other playlists
.tracks.(.artists:@1).other artists
/label=(.artist catalogs.catalog.label)#count
Here, for example, is ?? in a Curio query that gets a playlist and some albums, annotates the track, album and artist overlaps between them (in that order of priority), and flags the tracks in each album that were previously released (by that artist) before their album appearances.
June 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Here, for example, is ?? in a Curio query that gets a playlist and some albums, annotates the track, album and artist overlaps between them (in that order of priority), and flags the tracks in each album that were previously released (by that artist) before their album appearances.
DACTAL changes that might affect you if you're doing Curio queries:
filter negation was :! now :-
reverse index-number filtering was :@- now :@@
repeat was ?? now !
filter negation was :! now :-
reverse index-number filtering was :@- now :@@
repeat was ?? now !
Today in obsessive buffing of rough spots:
Filter negation is now done with -, instead of !.
tracks:-=Amaranth
This was the only use of ! as a suboperator, which frees it up to be the repeat operator, instead of ??.
messages._,replies!
Filter negation is now done with -, instead of !.
tracks:-=Amaranth
This was the only use of ! as a suboperator, which frees it up to be the repeat operator, instead of ??.
messages._,replies!
June 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
DACTAL changes that might affect you if you're doing Curio queries:
filter negation was :! now :-
reverse index-number filtering was :@- now :@@
repeat was ?? now !
filter negation was :! now :-
reverse index-number filtering was :@- now :@@
repeat was ?? now !
Today's tiny DACTAL tweak that probably affects nobody: in an aggregation, semicolons explicitly identify aggregators. So this query is a count of counts; the first "count" is a property (of groups), the second "count" is the aggregator.
tracks/artist...count;count
tracks/artist...count;count
June 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Today's tiny DACTAL tweak that probably affects nobody: in an aggregation, semicolons explicitly identify aggregators. So this query is a count of counts; the first "count" is a property (of groups), the second "count" is the aggregator.
tracks/artist...count;count
tracks/artist...count;count
Made some improvements to playlist comparisons. (Also, did you know Curio does playlist comparisons?)
June 14, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Made some improvements to playlist comparisons. (Also, did you know Curio does playlist comparisons?)
Here's what you get when your software is built by people who don't live in it. This is Spotify's useful display of what you've recently played, by playlist. But if you tap a song here, it doesn't resume that playlist, it starts playing through THIS view, which is your play-history in reverse.
April 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Here's what you get when your software is built by people who don't live in it. This is Spotify's useful display of what you've recently played, by playlist. But if you tap a song here, it doesn't resume that playlist, it starts playing through THIS view, which is your play-history in reverse.
The Spotify iOS app has adopted the annoying habit of starting my playlists over again, so in defense recent Listmarks in Curio can now be expanded to show your recent play history within them, so you can jump back to where you really were.
April 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The Spotify iOS app has adopted the annoying habit of starting my playlists over again, so in defense recent Listmarks in Curio can now be expanded to show your recent play history within them, so you can jump back to where you really were.
Happy NMF.
Some notes about a geeky Curio feature.
www.furia.com/log/507
NMFinder 2025-04-18
open.spotify.com/playlist/1j4...
the new Flight of Icarus song is out (and some others)
open.spotify.com/playlist/2hz...
Some notes about a geeky Curio feature.
www.furia.com/log/507
NMFinder 2025-04-18
open.spotify.com/playlist/1j4...
the new Flight of Icarus song is out (and some others)
open.spotify.com/playlist/2hz...
furialog
www.furia.com
April 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Happy NMF.
Some notes about a geeky Curio feature.
www.furia.com/log/507
NMFinder 2025-04-18
open.spotify.com/playlist/1j4...
the new Flight of Icarus song is out (and some others)
open.spotify.com/playlist/2hz...
Some notes about a geeky Curio feature.
www.furia.com/log/507
NMFinder 2025-04-18
open.spotify.com/playlist/1j4...
the new Flight of Icarus song is out (and some others)
open.spotify.com/playlist/2hz...
"Best practices" are incurious. Practice is most interesting when you don't predetermine what it is allowed to reveal.
You can now annotate playlists in Curio. And do what else with those annotations? Nothing, yet.
You can now annotate playlists in Curio. And do what else with those annotations? Nothing, yet.
April 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"Best practices" are incurious. Practice is most interesting when you don't predetermine what it is allowed to reveal.
You can now annotate playlists in Curio. And do what else with those annotations? Nothing, yet.
You can now annotate playlists in Curio. And do what else with those annotations? Nothing, yet.
Hooked up the DACTAL export function. Particularly useful in Curio for copying Listmarks' recent_history to other browsers.
April 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Hooked up the DACTAL export function. Particularly useful in Curio for copying Listmarks' recent_history to other browsers.
I wanted some Curio track-flagging features that were too specific to justify adding as general features, but that in itself justified adding a custom-flagging feature.
April 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I wanted some Curio track-flagging features that were too specific to justify adding as general features, but that in itself justified adding a custom-flagging feature.
Curio is mostly intended for desktop use, but I've now made some very basic style tweaks for rudimentary phone-screen support. The only thing specifically tuned FOR phone use is the Listmarks page.
April 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Curio is mostly intended for desktop use, but I've now made some very basic style tweaks for rudimentary phone-screen support. The only thing specifically tuned FOR phone use is the Listmarks page.
If you create a playlist from a query in Curio, like NMFinder for example, you can now rerun the query to update it from the playlist's Curio page.
March 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
If you create a playlist from a query in Curio, like NMFinder for example, you can now rerun the query to update it from the playlist's Curio page.
Album-cover scan-previewing in Curio is now on Option-hover instead of Command-hover, to eliminate jump-scares if you cycle into a tab or window with your pointer in the wrong place.
March 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Album-cover scan-previewing in Curio is now on Option-hover instead of Command-hover, to eliminate jump-scares if you cycle into a tab or window with your pointer in the wrong place.
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If the amount curious you are about my book is $4.99, the ebook version has dropped to your bargaining point.
a.co/d/4lUJ1zp
a.co/d/4lUJ1zp
Amazon.com
a.co
March 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
If the amount curious you are about my book is $4.99, the ebook version has dropped to your bargaining point.
a.co/d/4lUJ1zp
a.co/d/4lUJ1zp
I added a "lookup" connector to Curio so that queries can navigate into any api.spotify.com links the Spotify API returns. E.g.
playlists:@1.tracks.href.lookup.results.items:@1.added_by.href.lookup
playlists:@1.tracks.href.lookup.results.items:@1.added_by.href.lookup
March 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I added a "lookup" connector to Curio so that queries can navigate into any api.spotify.com links the Spotify API returns. E.g.
playlists:@1.tracks.href.lookup.results.items:@1.added_by.href.lookup
playlists:@1.tracks.href.lookup.results.items:@1.added_by.href.lookup
I spent almost 5 minutes searching the web for liner-notes on this compilation to explain which tracks came from where, and then I remembered that I have a tool for that.
March 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I spent almost 5 minutes searching the web for liner-notes on this compilation to explain which tracks came from where, and then I remembered that I have a tool for that.
Can we collate our collective knowledge ourselves? Not as much as should be our right, but sometimes, a little bit.
open.spotify.com/playlist/2BV...
open.spotify.com/playlist/2BV...
March 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Can we collate our collective knowledge ourselves? Not as much as should be our right, but sometimes, a little bit.
open.spotify.com/playlist/2BV...
open.spotify.com/playlist/2BV...