Every playlist submission is a bet. You’re wagering your time, your relationship with a curator, and sometimes money on the belief that your track belongs on their playlist. Most of the time you’re guessing -scrolling through playlists, listening to a few tracks, going with your gut. This post is about replacing that guess with a number. The Problem With “Good
The track pipeline was the proof of concept. Download a preview, run the analysis, write thirteen numbers back to Salesforce. Repeat for every track in the catalog. The playlist pipeline is a different problem entirely. To score a submitted track against a playlist, I need to know what the playlist actually sounds like — not just its name and follower
The last post ended with thirteen audio features computed from a 30-second preview clip. Energy. Danceability. Valence. Acousticness. Tempo. Key. Mode. And six more. That’s a lot. Too many for the Scoring Engine to reason about directly, in fact. If the goal is to decide whether a submitted track fits a playlist, I can’t ask the Scoring Engine to reason
In the last post, I mentioned that Spotify deprecated their Audio Features API – the endpoint that used to return energy, danceability, valence, and a dozen other musical characteristics for any track. It just disappeared. No replacement. No warning. No timeline. That was the moment this project stopped being a submission tracker and started becoming something I hadn’t planned to
After the intro post, a few people asked the same question: why Salesforce? Fair question. Salesforce is enterprise CRM software. It costs money, has a steep learning curve, and comes with the kind of bureaucratic reputation that makes developers wince. It is not, on the surface, an obvious choice for a solo musician trying to get their songs on playlists.
There’s a saying in investing: it takes money to make money. Music has its own version of that problem – it takes listeners to get listeners. If you’re an independent artist on Spotify, you already know this. I’m a software developer and a musician. When I ran into this wall, I did what any developer would do: I tried to build my way out of it.
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Do you experience anxiety when you have an upcoming interview? Do the knots in your stomach keep you up at night? Maybe you blank out under the pressure. If this is you, you’re not alone – but it doesn’t have to be this way either! There are 3 simple techniques you can utilize to overcome interview anxiety. Some background –
All the talk has been about Workflow and Process Builder going away, but there is a much more urgent deprecation coming that can cause breaking changes overnight to your Salesforce production org integrations
Demands to return to the office are picking up momentum. If you’re reading this, you’re likely in a similar situation. So what should you do?
To be clear: I’m not against returning to the office. I consider myself pro-choice.