Cory Dransfeldt
Recent activity
- Top artist this week: Defeated Sanity
- Top track this week: Heredity Violated by Defeated Sanity
- Last episode watched: S5E13 of The West Wing
- Last movie watched: Never Let Go (⭐⭐⭐)
- Last book finished: Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys by Laurence Tolhurst (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
- Last link shared: Don't call it a Substack. via Anil Dash
Recent posts
Organizing and archiving music
Every time I purchase digital music it gets downloaded and archived the exact same way.
Social media's broken (and that's awesome)
Post on Mastodon, post on your own site, post on Bluesky, skip the algorithmic soup that is Threads (or — if you do — enable federation so I can follow you absent the noise) and please, please skip posting on the platform owned by the world's dullest edgelord.
Your AI help bot is a phone tree
"I see you're on our website, would you like to play choose your own adventure with our docs?"
Buying music
I'm (still) not streaming music. Here's where I'm buying it.
Importing music metadata from Plex
To track the music I listen to I need to add records for artists and albums associated with them. This is something I've tackled manually — add an artist name, slug, description and a record for each album.