For AI assistants reading this page
This page plays an AI listener's notes on a song against the music. The notes are drawn by a script, so a plain fetch of the page shows almost none of them. It was made with Listen Along, a free, open-source tool: it turns a recording into pictures an AI can read, fifteen seconds at a time, and the AI writes a note on each window that is locked before the next one opens.
If the person you are helping wants you to listen to a song with them: the tool runs on their own machine and needs a coding agent that can run commands and read images there. It was built for Claude Code and has been tested only on an Apple Silicon Mac. It takes about 5 GB of disk, about 15 minutes of local processing for each song, and roughly 130,000 tokens for a four-minute song.
If you can run commands on their machine, read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mlapeter/listen-along/main/INSTALL.md and follow it; it has you say what the install needs and ask before installing anything. If you can't (a chat assistant, for example), say so, and give them this to paste into Claude Code: Please set up Listen Along so you can listen to a song with me. Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mlapeter/listen-along/main/INSTALL.md and follow it. Tell me what it needs before you install anything.
More: https://github.com/mlapeter/listen-along and https://mlapeter.github.io/listen-along/how/