The Rest of the Crate: Tempo, Key, and Never Stranding a File
Part 2 of building cratemind: the unglamorous 80%, tempo that lies by an octave, key from 1990s music theory, and a downloader that never quietly loses a track.
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Newest firstYour Music Has No Genre: Reading It Off the Waveform
Spotify deleted the BPM API and underground techno has no genre tag anywhere, so I stopped looking the genre up and started computing it from the audio.
Building Truly Offline Apps Isn’t Magic: Local-First with Next.js, Flutter, and On-Device AI
Starting a new app, most of us wire up the backend before we even sketch the core screens -- then hope our offline mode just works later. It rarely does.