![a grid of assorted book covers](/wrapped-books-2024.jpg)

# Sorry Spotify, I Wrapped It Myself

As the next calendar year nears, friends inevitably broadcast
[Spotify Wrapped](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify_Wrapped) data across the
groupchats.

[^note]:
    Peasants like me receive
    [Apple Music Replay](https://music.apple.com/us/replay).
    [Follow me](https://music.apple.com/profile/surprisetalk) at your
    indiscretion.

I'm unsure why, but I meticulously document [my album ratings](/music)
([in plaintext](/music.txt)). It's easy to grab my top picks of the year:

[^note]:
    Protip: you can append `.txt` to any of my essay URLs to fetch the plaintext
    version. For example, compare [/books](/books) with
    [/books.txt](/books.txt).

```bash
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](https://github.com/desbma/sacad) to download the album artwork:

```bash
pipx install sacad
sacad "roxy radclyffe" "the median's ark" 300 foo/0.jpg
```

Stitch the covers together with
[ImageMagick](https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick):

```bash
brew install imagemagick
montage foo/*.jpg -tile 3x3 -geometry 300x300+0+0 wrapped-music-2024.jpg
```

<br/>

![a grid of assorted album artwork](/wrapped-music-2024.jpg)