aside listens to a lot of music. For the past year or so it’s been mostly vtuber stuff exclusively through YouTube Music. Otherwise, it’s mostly アニソン or Touhou.
Per Mori Calliope, the best way to show support (oshikatsu) for a music-focused holomem is to stream on Spotify and buy the physical releases.
Music setup
Not quite an audiophile, but aside appreciates a good pair of cans.
- Sony WF-1000XM4 (Headphones)
- Sony WH-1000XM5 (Earbuds)
- Beyerdynamics Custom One Pro
Current DACs:
- Audioengine D1 for desktop (a solid holdover from uni days)
- Qudelix 5K Wireless DAC when I want to listen wirelessly on desktop
Scrobbling
Basically it’s the act of recording your play history. This is typically achieved by using an audio player or scrobbling app to track every listen and upload it to a web service.
- Scrobbling Hell by Brendan: A music aficionado gives an overview of scrobbling and how he consolidated listens from various devices and services. Specifically, Brendan moved from last.fm to ListenBrainz.
- Scrobbling and it feels so good by Kris: Scrobbling on an iOS devices and how she got a “Now listening” WordPress widget to work.
What’s the point? It’s fun, whether you’re analyzing changes in your listening habits or just creating a collage!
Karaoke/Lyrics
Songs are much more fun with synced lyrics to sing along to! Many music players support .lrc files and commercial streaming services typically have it as a feature as well!
Here’s a non-exhaustive list of apps to get/make .lrc files yourself!
- lrcget official client of lrclib
- karlyriceditor offline native app
- LRC maker online app
VTuber Music
holomem song of the fortnight or aside’s selected songs See the various hololive member entries or the virtual singer entry.
Anime Songs
Selected アニソン:
- Sakamoto Maaya - Waiting for the Rain
- MYTH & ROID - L.L.L.
- KOKIA - KARMA (no official version on YT Music unfortunately…)
- Kalafina - 光の旋律 - Hikari no Senritsu
- bonus: Cover by Tokino Sora
- Walküre - いけないボーダーライン - Ikenai Borderline
Release info, etc
Various places to get crowd sourced info
- MusicBrainz - Massive open source database. It’s the metadata service used by the excellent beets CLI application and MusicBrainz Picard GUI application for tagging local media.
- ListenBrainz - open source music scrobbling service, self-hostable.
- VGMdb - indispensable for Japanese Video Game, Visual Novel, and Anime music information
- aniDB - excellent to quickly look up Anime opening/ending/insert themes
- Anison Generation - (plaintext only) premiere Japanese website for anime song release information.