listentomore v1.6.0 — Claude writes the summaries, pages load faster

This release moves the site's AI writing to Claude and makes pages that aren't cached load much faster. It also fixes summaries that were getting cut off or failing to load. What's new Album, artist, and genre summaries, recommendations, weekly insights, and the artist sentences on the home page now come from Claude Opus 5.5. The Discord bot's /ask command uses Claude Sonnet 5.5. Weekly insights read less like a template, and the album recommendations are tied to what you listened to that week. Album and artist pages load faster when they aren't cached. In testing, the median time to first byte for an uncached album page went from about 740 ms to about 260 ms. Apple Music links for albums are more accurate. In a test of 125 albums, 86% got a correct link, up from 70%, and links saved under the old matching were cleared. Genre summaries now need a free Last.fm sign-in, like the other AI features. Genre pages stay public. Fixes AI summaries no longer stop mid-sentence, and a cut-off…

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