about

Hi, I'm Les Orchard and these are playlists of music I like. Some of them are kind of conceptual mixtapes. Others are just a random mix.

Once upon a time, many of these lived on Spotify. But, I wanted my own copies. So, I built a little tool called byom-sync to pull them down and write them to YAML files I control. Then, I built a web component called byom-player so I could actually listen to them from my own library.

Then, I got the idea that I'd like to share these with folks. So, I built a static site generator and enhanced the player to support YouTube and Spotify as audio sources.

An interesting thing is that there is no music hosted here - it's just playlists. The music is elsewhere, and the player streams it from there. The playlists are just a way to organize and share the music I like.

So, now this is kind of a weird music blog. We'll see how it goes and if I keep it up, now that it's my own thing.