Concept Playlist Master Blog

Why haven't they told me about the cree all-purpose radio station sooner. They play everything from the 50s to today. Half of their ads and one of their shows is in cree which I do not speak a lick of but thats fine, they play banger music. They give me local news updates that arent dripping with UCP cocksucking. They tell me about things that affect a demographic I otherwise hear very little about by virtue of being a white guy in alberta.

VIRGOMOON'S BLACK MUSIC COLLECTION: a series of playlists where i collect black artists from various genres to showcase the talent of my community; particularly that outside of typical genres you see us in.

black people created rock btw: my magnum opus. as the title suggests, here is rock music made by black people or bands that feature at least one black musician, particularly the lead singer and/or songwriter. classic rock, pop punk, hardcore, punk rock, goth, and more. this includes rap rock remixes and rock inspired rap tracks. songs range anywhere from the 60s to now.

a southern gothic tale: this playlist is just like the above, except featuring black artists who make primarily country music. there's bluegrass, folk, blues, and the like here. including covers and crossover songs. again, older music as well as newer tracks are featured here.

black alternative: black music that isn't just generic "pop", "rap", or "rnb". nothing wrong with those genres, of course, but obviously, we make all kinds of music and deserve to be recognized there too. here you'll find hyper-pop, bedroom pop, indie pop, dark pop; all those trendy sub - genres.

juicy fruit, certified bubble yum: bonus points if you know the song the title is from. anyway, here's bubblegum pop by black artists because for some reason black pop girls get labeled as "urban" and "rnb" when they're not? not necessarily? music from the 80s and on.

black girl punk!: punk and punk adjacent music from alternative black women in music. including fem presenting artists.

Crimson Peak (2015) 🎬 Guillermo del Toro

think we’re healing god i hope so

we won’t give up if they say so

undefeated yeah we’re thorough

screw it all cause nothing matters

yeah we’re writing a new chapter

even if you’re heart soul is shattered

we can break out of this pattern

Last Update: 05/10/2024

All fundraisers have been looked into by me or vetted by others. If anyone notices issues in validity with any of the fundraisers listed please let me know. Funding updates daily!

Fadi Al-Sharif and family ($18,148/$62,500 goal)

Hayam Taha and family (€11,803/€30,000 goal)

Deyaa and family (€10,564/€20,000 goal)

Fatima Alshanti (kr16,840 SEK/kr150,000 goal)

Shahed Ghazi and family ($9,415 CAD/$94,838 goal)

Little Yusuf and family (€12,097/€85,000 goal)

Sara & Huda Hajjaj and family ($7,135/$15,000 goal)

Mohammed JH Shamia's family (kr35,473 SEK/kr250,000 goal)

Maram Ahmed and family (€2,610/€30,000 goal)

Hamza Almofty and family ($4,817/$35,000 goal)

Mahmoud Jomaa (€2,256/€10,000 goal)

Dr. Mohammed Shara ($1,781/$20,000 goal)

Abdulrahman Alshanti and family (kr143,352 SEK/kr350,000 goal)

Besan Almabhouh's family (€7,338/€25,000 goal)

Said Tanani and brothers (€33,197/€50,000 goal)

Donia Tanani and family (€71,717/€100,000 goal)

Hussein Shamiya, his pregnant wife, and son ($11,654/$40,000 goal)

Mohammed Shamia and family ($21,366/$35,000 goal)

Amro Bakr & kids Bakir and Tala (€5,600/€15,000 goal)

Almadhoun family ($19,893/$80,000 goal)

Child Mohammed (€15,609/€20,000 goal)

Sana'a and family (£22,820/£50,000 goal)

Noha Ayyad and family ($26,872/$95,160 goal)

Maryam Ayyad and family ($1,000/$15,000 goal) - Maryam is related to Noha listed above, who is managing her fundraiser.

Hamza Sameer and family ($4,120/$55,000 goal)

Hamza is related to Noha, he is her uncle’s son.

Nazmi Mwafi and family ($6,143/65,000 goal)

Ibrahim Almofty and family ($6,137/$40,000 goal)

Hamdi Hejazi and family ($17,624/$25,000 goal)

Mohammed and family ($8,911/$25,000 goal)

Heba and family (€42,952/€60,000 goal)

Mohammed Abuhasanein and family (kr7,220 SEK/kr 350,000 goal!!!)

Rawan and Yemna (kr30,408 SEK/kr319,315 goal)

Laila Auda (€5,535/€35,000 goal)

Ola Madi (€973/€40,000 goal!!!)

Tawfik Satoom and family ($5,440/$45,000 goal)

Laila Abd El Bari, her husband, and unborn baby Sham (€2,486/€25,000 goal)

Abdullah Mohammed and family ($4,871/$47,000 goal)

Ruba Abushaban and family (€7,503/€50,000 goal)

Hala, her husband, and their daughter ($4,978 CAD/$50,000 goal)

Hoda and Abdul Rahman ($1,646/$18,000 goal)

Al Maghari family (£1,913/£74,000 goal)

Arwa Abudawaba and family (kr230,774/kr500,000 goal)

Hani Alhajjar’s family (€10,224/€50,000 goal)

Ouda family ($16,086 CAD/$50,000 goal)

Rawan Ahmed and family ($7,339/$40,000 goal)

Dr. Wael Eldahdouh's family (€3,357/€110,000 goal)

Abdullah Lulu and family ($2,208/$6,000 goal)

Lara, Abdalla, and family (€7,032/€50,000 goal)

Firas Salem and family (€7,555/€20,000 goal)

Amal Abu Shammala's family (€38,106/€47,000 goal)

Dr. Mohammed Alshaer and family (€2,949/€18,000 goal)

Roqaya Al-Hayek and Mohammad Jamal Al-Hayek (€12,653/€25,000 goal)

pov you're a sexy villain scheming away in your dark sexy lair

classical music for sexy bitches

goth-esque tunes for your average misty thursday night graveyard hangouts

i think it should be legal to punch one (1) annoying person per day and not get in trouble for it

yeah i serve... serve cunt

it's 1am and you're sitting on the bathroom tile floor trying not to dehydrate yourself from crying so much

losing my mind but in a hot and sexy and cool way

when you're driving and you want to impress your passengers with your diverse and sexy music taste

mentally i am a divorced father of three in the year 2006 who's trying to quit smoking but it's not working

calming study tunes

if i owned a coffee shop these are the songs that would be playing

pov you fell in love with someone you can't have but you can't help but cling to hope that one day it might work out

57 year old suburban dad mowing the lawn on a sunny saturday afternoon

I am so normal about this character dynamic (enemies to lovers core)

I'm secretly still a 14 year old emo kid with really bad eyeliner

the bittersweet end credit scene where you can't decide whether you're happy, sad, or somewhere in between

it's snowing and you're walking in the dark, watching the snow flutter under the streetlights

girlish whimsy

finding peace in the woods

getting over heartbreak

solo museum date (for when i need piano-based songs)

soft spring days

seeing love in everything you do

the indescribable urge to move to the suburbs

feeling like a jar of honey

commuting

feeling like a sparkly bubble

feeling like a pinterest girlie

going on a date in the park

knowing life goes on

tipsy giggly head bopping

To convert CD audio into mp3s, you just follow the steps here

To play mp3 files, you download an mp3 player like Winamp here and away you go

On mobile? There are plenty of free mp3 players for your phone available, too, so check them out

If you have the CDs, it will be easier to rip them. Most music managers include this feature and you will have all the track information loaded into the file. There are also pirate websites where you can download entire albums with their metadata attached, but there could be risks associated (I would worry more about viruses than lawsuits these days, though). Deciding a method for acquiring music is a balance of the required time, the alternative costs, and other pros/cons like supporting the artist or taking the risk of pirating sites.

1. Find the song on Youtube. YT has pretty much every song at this point, usually in comparable quality to what you would get on a streaming service.

This is great if you already listen to music on Youtube, but there might be a better method for going direct from Spotify, though this will work either way. The main downside to this method is that official music (and even lyric) videos sometimes have non-music portions so you might have to listen to the whole thing to be sure. SponsorBlock will highlight non-music sections for most artists, so if you have it installed you can tell at a glance if this is the case.

2. Download the audio from YT. There are many ways to download YT videos completely for free. It’s probably against the YT terms of service, but you’re not going to get sued.

I like y2mate for downloading YT videos (or their audio in mp3s) because it’s a simple, ad-free website. You just paste in the URL for the video you want to download. Sometimes it’s laggy and you have to come back later, but usually after a few moments the video loads, you select your download quality (the highest), and then save it. For easy file management, download everything in folders for the Artist, and then sub folders for the Album, and name the MP3 file the “song name”.mp3.

3. Upload to your music player/manager of choice. The file will currently be lacking metadata (Artist, Album, track number, etc) and will be added to the library as a song with its title set as the file name minus its .mp3 extension. Various music players/managers have different ways to add metadata (usually accessed by right-clicking the song) with varying ease.

iTunes is free and and logical if you have an iPhone, but limited in its capabilities. I do all my management/listening in MusicBee (free for Windows) because of its playlist and management features, as well as having a very customizable interface. You can set it to scan the folders you download music to so it will automatically load things into your library, or do so manually. Once loaded into MusicBee, you can batch edit an entire album’s metadata at once easily with Auto-Tagging. Auto-Tag can fetch the details from the internet and fill in artist, tracks, album artwork, etc and save that information to the mp3 file. You can edit this manually if needed too. Drag and drop the edited songs to any other player you may want to add them to so it can find the files.

4. Now you can use the player of your choice to listen endlessly, form playlists, etc. Some free music managers also have music discovery/recommendation features for expanding your collection.

MusicBee allows you to create playlists with folders, subfolders, and dynamic features. You can export these playlists for cross-platform play on other computers with MusicBee installed. I think the playlist features on MusicBee are better than what is on streaming services. You can create an auto-playlist of your recently-added music so you can easily find the ones that are new and might need need editing, adding to other playlists, etc. I have custom tags for music by LGBT artists, sapphic love songs, and more. I also drag-and-drop these playlists directly into iTunes so I have them on my phone too (you can do this to make a new playlist or just edit/add songs to a current one).

There are many music managers/players, including cross-platform ones with streaming, though they usually have fees for that feature. Because you aren’t streaming the music and rather storing it, you’ll need space on each device you want to play the music on, but memory is cheap these days.

You can buy a 2TB external harddrive for less than Spotify or Youtube Premium costs for six months, so having to store the songs isn’t much of a downside. Plus, the song will never “leave the service”, you can listen to it offline, etc.

in spite of everything, the stars

to love life, even when you have no stomach for it

choose a country, pick a decade, and GO!!

you’ll get an endless streaming of songs (ad free!).