Hi Bud

Do you guys listen to music while you ride your mountain bikes? I would assume that requires a lot of skill and concentration. We have recumbent bikes but I want to see the sights and listen to the sounds of nature when we are out riding.

I ask the question because many things I do require my complete attention. Fifty miles offshore running at 30 knots in an open fishing boat by myself, I need to stay focused if I want to get home. Same thing when I have my hand inside a five hundred volt tube amp or flying a plane. Even driving the car I need to stay focused. There is a seemingly endless variety of dangerous machines involved in most things I do.

I have satellite radio in the car but I mostly use it when I am parked. There are stations I like, but as soon as a song comes on I don't find interesting, I switch channels.

I like a lot of different styles of music. I assume that having a computer or a person select songs based on some criteria would be valuable. It is unlikely the band I saw I liked on Pluto TV would ever have come up because I would have never asked for that type of music. I have hundreds of CDs but rarely turn them on. The CDs were more valuable before youtube.

As you said, there are millions of songs on Spotify, and even with the best list, that is an endless supply of new music. It stands to reason that anyone would find this useful.

How, for example, would I find you guys if I did not know you?

My inability to listen to new music has not so much to do with what exists or how it is presented. I just have too many things going on to make it a priority.

Perhaps in the near future, an AI can track what I like, sort through those 80,000,000 songs, and present me with the top 1000. That would be cool.

This AI business is becoming very useful for me because it can answer technical questions and do difficult and time-consuming calculations.

We can hope for a bright future. That is certainly possible.

Cheers,

Billy

“Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig?
“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”