Lyrarium: music reference management

This is the POC for a party with my friends so I allow myself to make it slop.

In-Short

• Pinterest but musics
• vim-like keybinds / navigation
• TUI
• local
• let nix flake handle with installation process

Stoned Ideas

• Wheel UI
  • Emotion Wheel Feature
  • Customizable Wheel UI
    • (each button on the wheel: dedicated tag, button color)
  • connected with hand tracking
    • make it less wonky: set a specific coordinate for the wheel UI to pop-up

Simple Version

• music macro language

Presentation

• goal:
  • “this part of this music is very similar to that music”
  • ambitious
    • “help people manifest their own taste that don’t limit to existing music jargon”
• inspirations
  • rmpc
  • mml player
  • printerest and excalidraw
• requirements and feature
  • immutable (as much as possible)
  • wrapper of existing standard tools
    • e.g. ffmpeg, rofi fzf dmenu, shell, yt-downloader, gnu typst
  • priority: shell > c, python > js (wanna avoid supply chain attack tho)
  • TUI first
  • vim motion
  • extremely personalized
• discussion
  • sample management
    • unsupervised approaches
      • musics_and_self_organizing_maps

On Larger Scale: Sample Management

• utilities
  • navigation
    • search
    • next, previous
  • play, stop
  • classify
• How we classify
  • metadata approach
    • personalized approaches
      • typical tags and playlists
      • relational mapping? (obsidian inspired)
    • less personalized approach
      • existing tool: splice
      • cons: you have to be familiar with music jargon.
  • unsupervised approaches
    • need to learn more about music_information_retrieval
      • musics_and_self_organizing_maps
      • …

created on: Mon Jun 08 2026