Category: music

  • Reflection

    I reflect on my life and all I am left with is a brutality of horrible visions and events. It feels like I’ve been living with the devil. It has been a struggle. A struggle to sleep, a struggle to eat, a struggle to live. Something has dealt so much pain over the years.

    Everything is fine now but that can change in an instant. Every time I tell myself that it’s over, it just starts back up again. I wonder a lot. I wonder why it’s happening. I wonder if wondering is apathy, or perhaps worse. Life is unfair. Almost like I’m talking to God. Call it what you want. The problem is that there no reason for it. My suffering is an injustice, if anyone were to ever see it, they would pray to God. I wrote a poem while I was in the midst of a behemoth event. Here’s a small part of it.

    A man his whole life has himself stuck on a string,

    I feel a little spider crawl across my skin,

    My little spider, this fear is not the same thing,

    Do you feel enough pain to feel him

    I think about all that I have suffered and how relentless the prior experiences have been, there is no rest or sympathy, these forces do not relent. They’ve been such a huge distraction in my life. They’re the one thing I’ve grown to fear over time. The gripe I have with the entire catastrophe is that there is no reason, no lesson.

    I’ve spent so long trying to achieve something in music. I’m looking at it all realizing that it was probably the only thing that kept my head on my shoulders all those years, not the music itself but the up-and-coming just hold on mothers’ spaghetti rapper survival framework. There’s got to be a reason; why not have the reason be envy. A green alien on an intergalactic space station on the other side of the moon plotting the demise of my artwork.

    Regardless, it’s a serious problem. I’m worried about the future. The main thing that keeps me going is it won’t be like this in the future; this is what keeps me moving forward. It ends.

  • Spotify Music

    Spotify can be free. Don’t cancel the premium if you ever buy it, run Spotify in a browser while running an ad blocker.

    adguard
    spotify

    I feel like the music industry is pushing you into sticking to a team like Apple Music or Spotify, Soundcloud Go. This “hack” to get free Spotify isn’t useful if you’re at a gym. Lets investigate a way of getting free music if you really are struggling. Here are some options I found exploring the web.

    Spicytify: Command-line tool to customize the official Spotify client. Supports Windows, MacOS and Linux.

    Psst: A fast Spotify client with a native GUI written in Rust, without Electron. Psst is still very early in development, lacking in features, stability, and general user experience. It’s fully cross-platform, supporting Windows, Linux, and macOS.

    Spotube: A cross-platform extensible open-source music streaming platform.

    These are all open-source options.

    After some more digging I found the piracy mega thread on Reddit. This has a bunch of great URLs if you’re looking for some free music that you don’t want to pay for. I found Lucida on there.

    lucidia

    yt-dlp is another great project that allows you to rip music from YouTube, just read the documentation beforehand.

    There is way more on that Piracy reddit which has third party resources you can use for free entertainment.

  • Music

    I’ve removed my old music website for now. I’m going to focus on other stuff in my life. Here is my new Windows Server. I’m using my old PC as a server. So messy.

    I was thinking about focusing on writing lyrics rather than just freestyling it without any prior preparation. Here is some of my old stuff from 2018.

    I feel like writing about stuff will be good for me. Writing and reading are always good. I could host the old music website to a subdomain, or I could just upload music to posts.

    I’ve used task scheduler to automatically renew the DNS details for my server. Annoying dynamic IP address.

    task scheduler

    Nothing too exciting.