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Music / Data / Exploration
MyMusic Explorer
A personal music database that grows beyond a list of files: artists, songs, albums, credits, sources, and the relationships between them.
Building nowIndependent workbench / Est. 1999
Useful things,
carefully connected.
I am John Colby. Colby Consulting is the home for the systems, experiments, and long-running projects I build to make complicated things easier to understand.
Current focusLive
The MyMusic project
A better way to explore a music collection.
Part library, part knowledge graph, part ongoing conversation with the data.
Follow the threadThe workbench
A few things
in motion.
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Systems / Automation
Small systems that keep going
Tools that harvest, organize, and supervise work in the background while keeping the important decisions visible.
Taking shape03
Notes / Experiments
Ideas worth following
A home for investigations that start as questions and become something useful through patient iteration.
More to come
Why this exists
Curiosity is more useful when it leaves a trail.
I have spent a long time working with data, software, and the messy middle between an idea and a working system. This site is a simple front door to that work.
Some projects are public. Some are private. All of them are built with the same preference: make the next step clearer than the last one.
The front door
Want to see where
this goes?
The public site will stay lightweight. The deeper tools will remain behind their own protected doors.
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