So I attempted to make a reference playlist on Spotify because I was worried about reposting.

I apologize if I missed a song. If it’s on Spotify, put the link in a comment and I’ll update it. I’ll be updating it on a regular basis.

This list does not include the posts of whole albums. It’s only posts of individual songs. I’m tempted to make the albums a separate playlist.

Cheers!

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    This looks like a lot of work - but I love the idea of this.

    Seems a great way to explore music I’ve never heard before - and revisit some classics.

    Thank you.

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      I didn’t fully appreciate the amount of work it would take until about 150 songs in, sometime after I realized Jerboa wasn’t showing much beyond 6 months ago. Lots of flipping between Firefox and Spotify.

      I’m glad you like it! It’s a trip to listen to. In making it, I found a few tracks I had planned to post and only a handful of reposts.

      What saddens me is all the tracks that aren’t on Spotify. Lots of live covers didn’t make it. So it goes, I suppose.

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          I knew inevitably a coder was gonna come along and tell me how to do this like a sane person. Hahaha, yes by hand. I don’t know how else to do it. Please, for the love of all things, lay it out for me plainly, cause it did occur to me, but I had no idea where to even begin.

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            Happy to help out :) Web scraping is hard, good thing Lemmy gives an API. Hit me up on matrix if you’re there @penguincoder:hive.beehaw.org or just PM.

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        Your work and effort is very much appreciated. I had noticed the live version thing (I’d posted Burn by The Cure as a rare live performance) but having the studio recording is enough - those who want to see how a track might have sounded live will be able to find it (e.g. for some of the Alestorm tracks that have been shared recently, there is a very good live mix available under their label on YouTube).

        Not being able to access all music via just one streaming provider seems to be a feature of the services these days. Sad and frustrating, but it doesn’t detract from the value and quality of this playlist.

        Thanks again.

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      Thank you! I thought it might be handy, so I wanted to share.

      Took approximately 12 hours, spread out over a few nights. Took a break every 50 songs or so. Looking forward to daily maintenance rather than trying to find my previous stopping point somewhere in the last 2 years of posts.

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      For every song in it that I’ve heard and don’t like, there’s one I hadn’t heard before that I now really like. It was quite the experience putting it together. There were some songs I couldn’t wait to interrupt with the next track, and others I would add to the queue so I could hear them again.

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      Was that the one where the physical copy came with two lenses (for glasses) that were built into the packaging? Or was that a different Tool masterpiece?

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        No that was the one. I just got a copy last year.

        Edit: As cool as the packaging is, it won’t fit in a standard CD storage slot. Which is unfortunate. Haha.

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    Alright, this is pretty remarkable. Doing this manually must have been a pain in the arse.
    Still I thank you for doing this. My band The Three Leonards is on here. Thanks very much for including us.