Putting music data to work

I had someone ask me the other day why I collect all the music data that I do and I wasn't sure how to answer. Some of it's an interest in my own listening patterns, and another part of it is nostalgia for the last.fm I used heavily during its heyday. I guess I like quantifying those things. It's become a bit more than that too — I curate artist bios, I pull in genre descriptions from Wikipedia, and I fiddle with metadata. I also put some of this data to work. I use Navidrome to listen to music. I've written a client and written at length about it. It's had plugin support for a little bit now and I have, of course, written a few. Since I have artist bios stored on my site for each artist, I wrote and exposed an API that returns those bios in HTML. I wrote a plugin for Navidrome that scans this endpoint periodically and pulls in those bios to display on artist views. I have art for every single album in Navidrome (mirrored to my site to scrobble against) that sits in a pull zone over…