I enjoyed Amelie Lens and Charlotte de Witte so much yesterday at work, I logged back into my Bandcamp account. It’s been a while, and I forgot what it means to own music.
I have a music folder in my Synology, which mostly contains electronic FLAC files I bought from Bandcamp. Because these are artists who passed the “OK, you’re actually worth my money” threshold, it obviously means I have a good selection there to choose from. In contrast, YouTube Music (yes, it’s my streaming service since I got grandfathered in along with my YouTube account for a cheap price) considers what’s popular, and what’s popular is not always what’s good.
While I did find Lens and de Witte on YouTube Music yesterday in my office, it’s not the best place for discovery, especially when you just go through their mixes and lists trying to find something. Exploring music takes time. It’s something I enjoyed doing with Bandcamp, until they were bought by Epic, anyway. I’m not sure what I’ll do when Bandcamp goes away in its current form—as I always say, it’s not a matter of if, but of when.
There are two kinds of music I usually spend more time, money, and effort on. Classical Music (I took some time to learn about it, it’s best approached as a history class) and Electronic Music. Both genres are too big for their own definitions (Classical music may also be current, so by definition it can’t still be “classic”, Electronic music basically means anything done with a computer, which today means everything…), and I love getting lost and discovering new music. At some point, I even considered getting into Electronic music myself, but the path there is too long and intimidating (and expensive). Still, if there’s one area in my life I feel I’m missing out on right now, it’s this.
Micro.blog wiki: Freshing up
A new wiki for Micro.blog has been created to distinguish it from the existing personal wiki. It now includes a log feature to document changes and updates.
When I need to sleep at night but my brain won’t let me. There’s a soundtrack for that:
Ughh. I’ve been playing with Synctrain since the morning, with non-consistent results. Even with the Shortcut in place, the files don’t sync constantly. It’s not reliable. I really don’t want to use iCloud for syncing…
Really want to try pixelmator but don’t want subscription or something that would be included in Apple photos soon
So affinity is now free… hmm. Maybe that’s what I will end up using.
If you’ve been using Emacs on macOS and iOS for a while, you probably know Álvaro Ramírez, the maker of Journelly and dwim-shell-command. I’m a fan of both.
Turns out Álvaro has a sponsorship page on GitHub. If you benefit from his work and look for a way to help out, this is it!
Moved Journelly to sync only through Syncthing for now (using Synctrain). Only hiccup was ensuring Synctrain on the iPhone is configured to sync automatically (by default, it asks you each time if you want to sync files).
One thing I already appreciate: if there’s a conflict, it tells me, and saves the conflicting changes in another file, just like in Syncthing. Meanwhile, iCloud just “resolves” sync conflicts for me, and I have already lost important notes because of that.
I keep having issues with iCloud syncing recently. It’s probably my fault, because I also have Syncthing working with the same folder, so I can sync files from my iPhone and my Mac to my Android and Linux machines. It used to work OK, but I just lost a chunk of information that was important.
With Syncthing, I have an option to turn file version history on. With iCloud, I’m not sure if that’s possible. I can use Synctrain (a syncthing client for iOS), and I hope this will resolve the issue.