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the infinite jukebox was a project out of a hackathon hosted at MIT a decade ago, the program accepted uploads of audio files and hosted them alongside an analysis of the song that allowed the player to play the song and jump through it in such a way it would never end.

s screenshot of the infinite jukebox showing pathways through "The Unforgiven" by Metallica

i remember very fondly at my first programming job listing to Booker T. & The MG's - Green Onions on infinite loop while writing alarm handling code. there were options for tuning the playback, adjusting how similar sections of the song needed to be, how often branches would be taken, and an option to play out to the end to end the song if you wanted.

there's a lovely writeup about the original jukebox here: https://musicmachinery.com/2012/11/12/the-infinite-jukebox/

of course, a site where you could upload any song and listen to it for free wasn't going to stay up forever, and eventually it was taken down and i sorta forgot about it for a decade

i have just discovered that not only is it still out there, there's a modern version that uses spotify to source music tracks you can host on your own if you so choose, and you can just use it directly at The Infinite Eternal Jukebox

check out how it handles the songs Jessica or Pegasus by The Allman Brothers Band


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i've been playing with it again now that i've found it again and it's largely unchanged, flaws and all, but i don't think i'd have it any other way at this point

absolutely keeping a copy of the code on hand in case it disappears again

i think about the infinite jukebox almost constantly really, hardly a month goes by where i'm not like "damn, I miss that thing, it was the best"

has anyone packaged the eternal jukebox so you can run it locally and not need to hassle with uploading things?

the topic of the song by frenesi is "my boyfriend is taller than my ex-boyfriend... my ex-boyfriend is taller than my ex-ex-ex boyfriend" because "i like 209cm better than 190cm" escalating all the way to wondering why she can't find a boyfriend taller than tokyo tower; i probably chose this because my first instinct towards nearly anything is to jam out while breaking things. i'm sorry

Wayyy back when I got my first iPod (I think I was like 10), I got an iTunes gift card, and I was like, okay, I only have like $20, what's the biggest amount of music I can get for a dollar, and somehow I actually got an answer for that and it was the 20 minute long version of Jessica and so all I had for like the first few months of having an iPod shuffle was Jessica, Tommy by the Who (which I thought I'd like but didn't, actually, it never hooked me hard enough that I wanted to sit through it), The Wall, and whatever Christian music CDs were lying around haha

Point being, Jessica is etched into my soul and this is basically a huge joke on it, it's constantly pranking me, I need to see if it can handle Chameleon by Herbie Hancock... (curious how well it'll cope with the steadily increasing tempo)

edit: Chameleon. Well it's certainly trying haha, it's incredibly obvious when it does all but the smallest jumps

i've been a huge Allman Brothers Band fan for a very long time thanks to my dad, i remember having a bunch of really long live versions of songs mixed in on my 1st gen shuffle (as well as having memorized the shuffled order, since it was saved in as a playlist by iTunes)

you can probably also tell from my username that i got at least a little into Tommy |3

and now i'll chill to funky mostly smooth Chameleon, better than when i had a friend over last night and subjected them to What's New Pussycat? for a half hour