About these playlists
I've been making mixtapes for years. It was cassette tapes originally. For myself
or friends or family. I taped from my own and others vinyl records. I would record the radio.
I would tape the television audio.
I worked at Slacker Radio for 6 years. It was a great job.
The mixes on this page before 2017 were originally on that service.
I scrobble my music to last.fm directly from Spotify now.
I also use the Last.fm mobile app to Music.app plays from my iPhone.
When I worked at Slacker I contributed to
scrobblers for their properties: Slacker Radio &
AOL Music. Web Scrobbler
has only improved since then. They support not just Chrome, but also Firefox, Safari, and Edge now.
I use it to scrobble my YouTube listens I scrobble to libre.fm.
For the last decade I've started a new playlist at the beginning of the year. I name it something with
the word pho in it. When I hear a song that grabs me, or makes me happy, or makes me
think of something else, I'll add it. I do this rather than accept algorithmic suggested playlists.
I like it better when things come from weird places, like very old movies
or a line in a movie that reminds me of a lyric.
All playlists may be downloaded as CSV files, which have made it straightforward to
convert the lists of songs into, for example YouTube video playlists using
Tune My Music.
I have a cassette tape illustration I'm pretty proud of. At one time it graced this page.
I mentioned it in a blog post
in February 2024. You can examine the code or even fork your own version on CodePen.
I did some work using CSS to turn scans of cassette tape printed
covers into a faux-paper effect. See
Mixtape Covers (1996), adapted for the web
and
More Mixtape Covers.
My ThisIsMyJam archive from 2012-2014 is here: artlung.com/archive/thisismyjam.com/.
My Metafilter mixes—MeFi Swaps— (Metafilter users swapped mix CDs, MP3 discs or USB drives) from
2010 and 2011 are at
smorgasborg.artlung.com/mefiswap/.
smorgasborg.artlung.com/mefiswap2/.
If you liked this, or you adapt any of these playlists for another service,
feel free to
contact me. If you blog, and I think
everyone is a blogger, rerally, you could post about
them and send a
webmention and I'll get them.