--- 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 13 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/engine-connect-none-cover.png?width=800&height=500&name=engine-connect-none-cover.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/engine-connect-says-none) Music Nov 1, 2026 · 19 min read ### [Engine Connect Says None: What the SC6000 and X1850 Firmware Reveal](https://willcurran.com/blog/engine-connect-says-none) On an X1850 mixer with three SC6000 players, the Engine Connect channel menu showed only "None" on 8 of 13 logged boots, and no setting or cable change fixed it. Rebooting the stuck player did. Denon's firmware shows ... [![](https://willcurran.com/hs-fs/hubfs/will-curran-brand/day-old-plugin-four-gates-featured.png?width=800&height=500&name=day-old-plugin-four-gates-featured.png)](https://willcurran.com/blog/day-old-plugin-four-gates) Music Oct 25, 2026 · 5 min read ### [A Day-Old Plugin Didn't Touch My House Audio Until It Passed Four Gates](https://willcurran.com/blog/day-old-plugin-four-gates) To play live Twitch channels I follow in Music Assistant, I had to trust a stranger's day-old plugin and a custom server build. It passed a read-through, tests on my exact version, a sandbox with the real speakers off, ... [![](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 pick the sets and each recording's source picks the version. I worked these rules out on a Tipper playlist in October 2026: 28 fan threads, 50 ... [![](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, while its container reported healthy and its overlay answered every request. I had power-cycled my decks between sets, ... [![](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 stylized visuals, and on another, OBS uses them as clean camera shots. So I went with NDI: it puts each camera ... [![](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 Discord events on my server, with generated cover art. Google became the only ... [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: 13 posts. 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