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I dropped out of this scene after burying myself in technology/networks/programming for over 10 years. I didn't realize it, but my one-pointedness on programmin
by SuperPaintMan 11y ago
I dropped out of this scene after burying myself in technology/networks/programming for over 10 years. I didn't realize it, but my one-pointedness on programming harmed almost every other aspect of my life. Sure I could tell you how to do amazing things with a computer, but could I successfully get your number? Not a chance in hell.
Instead I picked up a paintbrush, got a night job at a hotel and now I oil paint for 5-6 hours out of my day. I'm exercising, talking to friends, being social. And just like my terrible paintings, my other skills are improving.
I did have a close second though, a little project called Samsara that brought zero-click downloading to iTunes. Once set up, getting new music is as easy as plugging in your iDevice.
It is written in Go, binds Last.FM, TPB and Transmission together and runs a daemon. The gist of the program is that it grabs your recommended music, scrapes TPB for it, Downloads it, Shovels it into your iTunes library, and auto-syncs it with your devices over wifi. It's been running for the past few months with no errors, and my music is fresh. Even has an option to constrain the downloads to releases in the past two years. InstaHipster.
I never got around to packaging it up as it was the last real project I was working on. Just trying to find drive to work on it was a pain. If anyone wants the code, send an email to zeropointer@icloud.com , If someone wants to take the project off my hands and polish it up properly and release it. It's all yours.
- brador 11y agoYou could link that to shazam somehow to get some real magic. Imagine, you hear a song, tap a button, it records, recognizes, finds, downloads and files it away into a new music playlist ready for listening at your leisure.