a list for 'against comparison'

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a list for against comparison.

The title is something I read on twitter on a long since deleted tweet, my memory faded about its original context - crucially I did write down and it somehow stuck - something I resist putting a datapoint on - a contradiction to an action - an artistic expression there to be studied.

It’s now the name of my journal, which is intended to be read by an informed audience interested in data, the music industry, ai and whatever it is we’re calling blockchains today.

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Sync Tech

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`MusicMole`⁠
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A tool that helps studios recycle music from the cutting from floor. It has no front end, meaning you have to message it via Teams, Slack, Google Chat - making it cheap to build.

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`Music Copyright as a Service.`⁠

A music-copyright aware data-schema for CD/CI environments that outputs data into actionable CRM tasks and dependancies.

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`Sync Tech - some advice.`⁠
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As a serial sync-tech failure, here I provide advice some people thinking about starting on for themselves.

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`Music Ingest for AVID Media Composer.`⁠
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As a Music Supervisor, I measured AI Music tagging reducing my clearances by 40%. Could a Google Sheet plugin bridge help implement this gap?

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`Why do ChatBot's interest me?`⁠
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A former business partner reiterated to me that once you choose a frame work, you’re stuck with that stack forever. Can ChatBot’s help circumvent this or at least delay building one until you have customers?

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AI Products

I’ve been interested in AI since 2018, principally as consequence of researching ‘blockchain’ technology. In a lot of ways I don’t consider blockchain a ‘human’ technology, more it is a tool for Artificial Intelligence to create automations.

My prediction is that won’t be until 2029 that we’ll be talking about the killer dApp that is getting 100,000 installs per day, all powered by this new wallet app from company that we’ve never heard of.

Until them, my ‘academic’ area of AI research is focused on ‘translator’ use cases for document summarisation and inference- ie how these system make predictions and ‘fill gaps’ - particularly with regards to legals in media production.

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`Infranodus`⁠
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Nodus Labs⁠

claim Infranodus gives you an overview into any discourse, revealing the blind spots and enhancing your perspective. Here, I show you how with some music metadata

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`Cursor.ai`⁠
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Cursor is a fork of VSCode with LLM agents directly accessing a codebase. What could go wrong? A lot, it transpires.

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`Coda AI`⁠
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Coda has an ‘AI Block’ that can classify and summaries values you place in it. Read how I used it to prepare for a job interview. Did I get the job...? No! But you can discover how I used the AI block to manage a GPT context window using a database and what insights into the company I was able to gain from it.

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Project Management

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`When New Tech Creates More Work, Not Less`⁠
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Discover how The Efficiency Paradox reveals the hidden ways new technologies can create more work instead of saving time—and learn actionable strategies to avoid falling into the trap of chasing 'efficiency' at the expense of real progress

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Pipedream

I’m a massive fanboi of

Pipedream⁠

, an automation tool akin to Zapier and Make. I originally adopted it because you could use NPM packages in your workflows - and it marketed itself as an automation tool for developers - but its pivoted away from that slightly and grown more into a ‘backend-as-a-service’ - for example, it has an inbuilt SQL editor, which is vital incorporating it into any wider production grade system. Fundamentally though, Pipedream still takes the strain out of securely setting up OATHs between APIs, something I still find challenging.

Below I am documenting some of my scripts, more for my reference than anything as I recycle them a lot.

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`Determine Mime-Type - Audio`⁠

Script to determine an audio file’s type when stored in a Pipedream temp storage workflow.

This is useful for gatekeeping packages like FFMPEG, Music-MetaData... that our expecting audio but your input funnel might be contaminated with album art, press releases, *.ini’s...

I’ve found the mime-type package to be a worthy CPU trade off to writing my own javascript as this handles uncommon propriety audio types (eg m4a = audio/mp4) correctly. Annoyingly I’ve struggled to identify mime-types from URL streams & file buffers in the Pipedream environment.

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`FFMPEG - Convert to WAV`⁠
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A forgiving node script that converts any audio file into a *.WAV - includes a check to bypass processing existing WAV files.

It’s also CPU lite, which ‘if you know, you know’ re; using FFMPEG on Pipedream.

As is, the WAV will render at 44.1 PCM - however, you can go deep with FFMPEG and I highly recommend the

FFMPEG Knowledge Expert GPT⁠

for learning functions and variables.

A lot of audio processing favour CLI’s and lower-level languages like C++ - those higher up typically require inputs in an uncompressed format, so its a handy script for working with audio in Pipedream’s environment.

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`Avid Media Composer - JSON to ALE`⁠
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Avid Log Exchange (*.ale) files our a text-based exchange format for video and audio assets.

The specifications on ALE files are unpublished - but there is lot written about them on the internet - there basically XML.

There a few

services⁠

that let you convert CSV files to ALE - however, this script is expecting to receive XML from a JSON array.

This is useful for programmatically preparing a collection of media assets for ingest into Avid, as you can cache everything and write the ALE only once before distributing your files over to your post-facility.

a list for against comparison.

Sync Tech

MusicMole

Music Copyright as a Service.

Sync Tech - some advice.

Music Ingest for AVID Media Composer.

Why do ChatBot's interest me?