J Herskowitz

Huh, I just happened to notice that my music has been getting played far more on Pandora than I would have ever guessed (I haven't looked at those stats in probably a year).

It is always fascinating to me how my most streamed song on one service is one of my least streamed on another.

I'm just going to tell myself that this democratic capitulation is all part of a master plan to get Grijalva seated and the Epstein files released.

Hey look, I took apart the loft I made for my daughter 15 years ago and turned it into a fireplace — and I only yelled profanity a handful of times!

Saying it louder for the Supreme Court in the back... TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.

I added one additional little guitar part (with big effects) on my new song this afternoon and then hit upload.

"The Repression of Banditry" will be out everywhere next Friday (11/14). 🎸🎶 😌

Relatively recently I learned that I went to high school with the new Governor-elect of New Jersey. When I was trying to remember her, one of my friends that was in the same class as her told me "oh you wouldn't have known her, she was really smart". 😶‍🌫️

Of all the crazy things I've seen at the NYC Marathon, the craziest so far was the guy on the 3:15 pace running in jeans.

We had our first trick-or-treater at 4pm. I started drinking 🥃 at 4:30. It's a race to see if I can outlast the candy supply

But don't worry, several startups that spin out of Microsoft will build sex robots...

TIL the name of the French police division in charge of the Louvre heist investigation translates to "Brigade for the Repression of Banditry".

Related: I think I may now have the title to my next song.

Took less than 5 minutes.

Nice. I'd love to see some of these folks go deeper into multi-source playback but these are a good start!

Left the beach on North Carolina to go hike along the Virginia/West Virginia border.

It seems the Spotify Android app now link-shorten (spotify.link) when you copy a song link - which seems to break most universal link platforms. Unclear whether they consider this a feature or a bug.

Having worked through the dotcom bubble, I can say one of the worst outcomes of the AI bubble will be that a bunch of idiots & con artists will make a lot of money and surround themselves with sycophants that will tell them they are the smartest person in the room for the rest of their lives.

I wish there was a rewind button on YouTube recommendations so I could easily jump back to my regular programming after going down some fleeting rabbitholes on woodworking, camper vans and electric motorcycles.

I'm not really a scary movie guy, but I just watched Weapons and enjoyed it.

That said, my superpower is in breaking software. An engineer I used to work with once called me "Captain Cornercase".

There is a lot of software I use lately that I swear the product manager(s) of it has never used.

I'm honestly quite surprised that Spotify is testing inflicting everyone with this UI for a feature that most people aren't going to give a shit about. If you want to just scan the playlist to see what's in it, good luck.

Yesterday my wife hit a giant pothole on the BQE and got a flat tire. She slowly made her way to the tire shop off the next exit. In the waiting room she met a couple that had also just hit the same pothole.

These tire guys are operating at the next level.

I'm so old that every time I buy a $16 sixpack at the bodega I think about the $6 cases of Milwaukee's Best we used to buy in high school. If we were really desperate, sometimes a $5 case of National Bohemian.

My apologies to all of my old coworkers that constantly have to field feature requests and bug reports from me for the rest of their professional lives.

YouTube video by Lee Martin / Netmaker An Introduction to AI Agents in Music

I'm excited to see @leemartin.com documenting his explorations in using AI agents for good in music.

I may have to dig further into N8N as it is giving warm Yahoo Pipes vibes from the Music Hackdays he and I would always attend almost 20(?!) years ago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP4r...

I saw someone talking about the 2007 movie Children of Men yesterday, so I just rewatched it.

Unfortunately, it hits a little harder this time.

Got my 💉💉.

PSA: "I smoked a cigarette once in high school" is a qualifying risk factor.

Flash forward to Suno and Udio stream ripping virtually all of the recorded music in history.

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Interesting music industry story no one is talking about (IMHO): the major labels gave up on pursuing massive music copyright infringement cases against YouTube years ago in exchange for them a launching a subscription music service (that they barely promote b/c YouTube is a much better business).

Asking it to analyze one of my songs it gave a long multi-part explanation although a bit generic. When asked more it basically copped to making it all up.

I was playing around with the new ChatGPT/Spotify integration, not to see what playlists it could create in Spotify but to see if it gave ChatGPT access to the audio files after you authorize it to connect to your account.