Update17

Mission Creep

Back in September I started talking about a new video mixing application I was writing called Cyclorama and then I stopped. Why? Well, I kind of got distracted. Bandcamp got sold to Songtradr and I wanted a way to get all my purchases downloaded from Bandcamp. I have about 1500 purchases on there, so it’s not something that could be done by hand.

There are scripts to do it, but they didn’t work reliably possibly due to the collection size, and they didn’t allow for incremental updates which I wanted because I wanted to be able to download only things that weren’t already downloaded.

So I started writing a SwiftUI based app to do it, but I don’t like using janky software even if it’s something I wrote for myself so I started work to “productise” it, with nice error messages, ability to log out, nice progress bars, all those things.

Then I found out that I can get track listings and URLs for streaming and now it’s growing and becoming more than a simple downloader.

The irony is it’s been able to download the collection for about a month and a half, but I still haven’t.

Anyway the code is at https://github.com/FalseVictories/Ohia if anyone wants to check it out. It needs an icon, but Bing Create doesn’t understand the difference between a macOS icon and an iOS one.