Jordan B. L. SmithInterview
Researcher, music information retrieval
Adapted from Jordan B. L. Smith's interview on Uses This, published 19 December 2019. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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MacBook Pro laptop (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013 model).
A couple Western Digital My Passport external hard drives.
Productivity
I am always interested to know how other people do theirs, but I always revert back to a simple Google Doc titled "To Do" that I can rewrite and restructure ad hoc.
Keynote for presentations, posters, or quick, simple design projects.
Browser
Coding & Development
Python 3 for coding, and most of my coding involves librosa.
Media
FFmpeg for stripping audio from video, or adding it, or creating gifs out of image sequences.
Storage
DropBox, 50% for keeping a cloud copy of my most recent work, and 50% to share large files with other people via download links.
Other
It's long been a very abstract problem to work on, but I've helped create some fun applications: most recently, I made Unmixer, which will extract loops from whatever song you upload.
OneLook for finding words that fit a pattern;