Oct 8, 2026
How Music Recommendation Algorithms Actually Work
How streaming services pick your next song: collaborative filtering, audio analysis, skips as signals, and practical ways to steer your recommendations.
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Oct 6, 2026
How Lossy Audio Compression Works: MP3, AAC and Opus
Learn what MP3, AAC, Opus and FLAC actually throw away, why you rarely hear it, and how to run a blind test to find the quality you can truly hear.
Oct 5, 2026
Build a Running Playlist Around Your Cadence and BPM
Learn how to measure your running cadence, match it to song tempo, and shape a playlist for easy runs, intervals and long runs, backed by research.
Oct 4, 2026
Why 120 BPM Became the Default Tempo of the Dance Floor
From disco turntables to house drum machines, here is why dance music clusters near 120 BPM, what research says, and how to use it in playlists.
Oct 2, 2026
Why Songs Get Stuck in Your Head, and How to Stop Them
What 3,000 survey responses reveal about earworms: the tempo, melody and exposure patterns behind catchy songs, plus ways to get rid of one.
Sep 30, 2026
How Loudness Normalization Ended the Loudness War
Streaming services now level every track to a target like -14 LUFS. Here is how that ended the loudness war and what it means for how music is mastered.
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