--- title: Writing — Will Curran | Music description: "Music | Notes on the technology I actually use: the truck, the radios, the home infrastructure, and the tools that survive past the first invoice." image: https://willcurran.com/hubfs/will-curran-brand/will-curran-og.png --- [Skip to content](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/music/page/1#main) [Will Curran](https://willcurran.com/) [Home](https://willcurran.com/) [Portfolio](https://willcurran.com/portfolio) [Press](https://willcurran.com/media) [Blog](https://willcurran.com/blog) [Favorites](https://willcurran.com/favorites) [Speaking](https://willcurran.com/speaking) [Consulting](https://willcurran.com/consult) [Hire Will](https://willcurran.com/hire) [All](https://willcurran.com/blog) [Builds](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/builds) [Events](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/events) [Home](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/home) [Music](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/music) Search the blog [Subscribe](https://willcurran.com/blog/subscribe) [Writing](https://willcurran.com/blog) / music/page/1 # music/page/1 11 posts filed under music/page/1. [Builds](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/builds) [Events](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/events) [Home](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/home) [Music](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/music) [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/chat-bot-called-a-house-set-drum-and-bass-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=chat-bot-called-a-house-set-drum-and-bass-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/chat-bot-called-a-house-set-drum-and-bass) Music Oct 22, 2026 · 6 min read ### [My Chat Bot Called a House Set Drum and Bass](https://willcurran.com/blog/chat-bot-called-a-house-set-drum-and-bass) One night in October I played a house set on my Twitch channel, and my own chat bot kept telling the room it was drum and bass. The bot knew my library well. What it didn't know was what I was actually playing that ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/layered-mixes-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=layered-mixes-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/layered-mixes) Music Oct 20, 2026 · 7 min read ### [When the Stream Got Stuck on Song 1: Seeing Layered Mixes](https://willcurran.com/blog/layered-mixes) I DJ by looping a track and layering more over it. For a while my stream named only the first one. Chat got song 1, then nothing, while the rest of the build played on top. When I dug in, I found two separate causes, ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/best-live-sets-playlist-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=best-live-sets-playlist-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/best-live-sets-playlist) Music Oct 8, 2026 · 6 min read ### [How I Pick the Best Live Sets for a Playlist](https://willcurran.com/blog/best-live-sets-playlist) When I build a "best of" playlist of an artist's live sets, fans' upvotes decide which sets go on it, and the source of each recording decides which version to use. I worked these rules out on a Tipper playlist in ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/drop-list-without-leaving-twitch-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=drop-list-without-leaving-twitch-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/drop-list-without-leaving-twitch) Music Sep 15, 2026 · 5 min read ### [Getting Viewers onto My Drop List Without Leaving Twitch](https://willcurran.com/blog/drop-list-without-leaving-twitch) I wanted someone watching my Twitch stream to type a phone number into a box under the video and land on my Laylo drop list, without opening a new tab. The code took one evening in September 2026. [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/healthy-but-blind-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=healthy-but-blind-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/healthy-but-blind) Music Sep 13, 2026 · 7 min read ### [A Healthy Container and a Blind DJ App](https://willcurran.com/blog/healthy-but-blind) For 1 hour and 42 minutes, the app that tells my stream what I'm playing didn't see a single track. The whole time, its container reported healthy and its overlay page answered every request. I had power-cycled my decks ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/guests-pick-the-music-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=guests-pick-the-music-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/guests-pick-the-music) Music Sep 12, 2026 · 3 min read ### [Let Guests Pick the Music Without Your Wi-Fi Password](https://willcurran.com/blog/guests-pick-the-music) When a guest wants to put a song on, the usual answer is the Wi-Fi password, so their phone can find the speakers. In September 2026 I worked out what that takes with Spotify Connect, and I ended up changing nothing on ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/one-set-of-cameras-two-uses-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=one-set-of-cameras-two-uses-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/one-set-of-cameras-two-uses) Music Sep 11, 2026 · 7 min read ### [One Set of Cameras, Two Uses: NDI in My DJ Studio](https://willcurran.com/blog/one-set-of-cameras-two-uses) I wanted one set of cameras over my DJ setup to do two jobs. On one computer, Resolume turns the feeds into effected, stylized visuals. On another, OBS uses the same feeds as clean, traditional camera shots, for example ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/one-calendar-twitch-discord-events-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=one-calendar-twitch-discord-events-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/one-calendar-twitch-discord-events) Music Sep 10, 2026 · 7 min read ### [One Calendar Drives My Twitch Schedule and Discord Events](https://willcurran.com/blog/one-calendar-twitch-discord-events) In September 2026 I built a small service that copied my stream schedule from one Google Calendar onto my Twitch schedule and into native events on my Discord server, with generated cover art on every Discord event. ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/every-wireless-turntable-is-late-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=every-wireless-turntable-is-late-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/every-wireless-turntable-is-late) Music Jul 29, 2026 · 6 min read ### [Every Wireless Turntable Is Late](https://willcurran.com/blog/every-wireless-turntable-is-late) I set out to answer a small question: can a Wi-Fi turntable send records to a WiiM multiroom system? On paper, yes. The catch is that a wireless turntable is late in every room, including the one it sits in. Bluetooth ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/discord-radio-release-party-cover-nolane.png?width=800&height=500&name=discord-radio-release-party-cover-nolane.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/discord-radio-release-party) Music Jun 3, 2026 · 5 min read ### [A 24/7 Discord Radio That Throws a Release Party](https://willcurran.com/blog/discord-radio-release-party) My Discord community had a radio station: a bot that sat in a voice channel around the clock and played one blended, newest-first playlist of mixes. When a new mix was published, it jumped to the front of the queue and ... [1](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/music/page/1) [2](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/music/page/2) [Older →](https://willcurran.com/blog/tag/music/page/2) Show more posts That's everything: 11 posts. 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