Sorry Spotify, I Wrapped It Myself
As the next calendar year nears, friends inevitably broadcast Spotify Wrapped data across the groupchats.
Peasants like me receive Apple Music Replay. Follow me at your indiscretion.
I'm unsure why, but I meticulously document my album ratings (in plaintext). It's easy to grab my top picks of the year:
Protip: you can append .txt to any of my essay URLs to fetch the plaintext
version. For example, compare /books with
/books.txt.
rev=$(git rev-list --since="2024-01-01" HEAD | tail -1)
git diff $rev HEAD -- src/Music.md | grep '^+' | grep ★★★★★+| ★★★★★ | Roxy Radclyffe :: _The Median's Ark_ |
+| ★★★★★ | Camarón de la Isla :: _La Leyenda del Tiempo_ |
+| ★★★★★ | The Beatles :: _Magical Mystery Tour_ |
+| ★★★★★ | Squarepusher :: _Hard Normal Daddy_ |
+| ★★★★★ | The Lemon Twigs :: _Everything Harmony_ |
+| ★★★★★ | Janelle Monáe :: _The ArchAndroid_ |
+| ★★★★★ | Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile :: _The Goat Rodeo Sessions_ |
+| ★★★★★ | Akademiska Damkören Lyran :: _Låt mig vara den jag är_ |
+| ★★★★★ | Comus :: _First Utterance_ |Use sacad to download the album artwork:
pipx install sacad
sacad "roxy radclyffe" "the median's ark" 300 foo/0.jpgStitch the covers together with ImageMagick:
brew install imagemagick
montage foo/*.jpg -tile 3x3 -geometry 300x300+0+0 wrapped-music-2024.jpg