A Playlist Oracle Worth Actually Talking To
· by Kjell
Info messages used to sit in the sidebar where the background process info lives, which meant that whenever the indexer was running you couldn't see what the app was trying to tell you. Tonight I moved them into the main display area, where they belong. Small thing, but it was causing me to miss useful feedback and probably doing the same to anyone else using the app.
The bigger work was on the MCP side. I added a set of new playlist generation tools backed by a knowledge graph, with mood detection pulled from multiple metadata sources. The upshot is that you can now ask for something like a set that drifts from rainy Sunday morning to late afternoon walk, and get back a playlist that actually coheres - track choices that share a sonic thread instead of being stitched together by genre tags alone. Of course, quality depends on metadata richness.
I've been playing with it for most of the evening. It's not perfect yet - the mood vectors sometimes go weird on less-known records - but when it works, it feels like something I'd want to use every day. That's a good signal.