Nice Playlist for Concentrated Work

This playlist is comprised of 77 pieces by Bach, Chopin and Mozart. It is ideal for concentrated work at work or home. Enjoy! :musical_score:

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I always played Bach while studying for my Health and Safety Exams.

It’s a bit triggering :upside_down_face:

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Triggered in a good way I hope! :slightly_smiling_face:

Thanks! Added it to my playlist. Will try it out tomorrow.

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Had added it, and, whilst expecting classical music, was hilariously surprised to discover the piano rendition of Ron Adelaar called All Together of the dutch artist Willeke Alberti of her song Samen Zijn.
Was not expecting that in a list called “Soft Classical Music” :joy:

Nevertheless, the remainder is the list is quite nice to listen while doing work.

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Left-field comment here, however now that ChatGPT can create playlists for Apple Music, there can be some good results.

I’m currently working on a video for SCO on exactly this, and writing out your exact requirements for a playlist can yield some excellent results. I created a nice playlist based on soft-jazz, no vocals with specific artists - one solely with soft electronic music - so different moods of concentration work.

Not related but asking for a 3 hour playlist charting the rise of Rock music in the UK by influential artists was great. It’s pretty good. Has caveats though - it’s good for discovering, but won’t read your Music Library (the Spotify integration does though if that’s your bag).

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I like that idea a lot, but I’m a little concerned about connecting ChatGPT to any of my Apple services. I have not investigated this sufficiently, so I’m probably asking a question that I need to verify on my own, but, given that you have done this, is there any reason for me to have any security or privacy concerns?

I do get splinters from sitting on the fence, so I’ll say of course I’m not expert on the implications, however it’s considerably more locked down than Spotify.

This article is not the de facto answer, however it does explain how Spotify is far more open than Apple Music with what is exposed and I can safely say from testing, all I was able to do was browse the Apple Music library, create recommendations for playlists and then click a button to add them.

I kept trying to get it to read my library and it just wouldn’t - explaining along the way why it couldn’t. At one point in my video, I ask ChatGPT to query my Apple Music library and add the first 5 albums from a band that were missing, and it flat out refused. When I did the same with Spotify, it allowed it. So it seems to be down to what Apple will allow to be viewed - which is a good thing.

That is encouraging. I’m going to ask ChatGPT how to set this up. By the way, I’ve never heard, “I do get splinters from sitting on the fence," but I like it! I plan to steal it in the future! :blush:

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My go tos, for what it’s worth. Maybe others will enjoy.

Early Music is an acquired taste and doesn’t always work, but every once in a while it hits where it needs to.