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How Lofi Girl Became a Chill Beats Empire https://www.404media.co/how-lofi-girl-became-a-chill-beats-empire/

This awesome t-shirt caused me to rewatch the #DaftPunk anime saga. I thought there were only 4 music videos but there are in fact many more (not for any hit singles though). Another tiny easter egg is the short drummer's back story: He's supposed to be from my home town Munich! So of course he likes beer :)

Osu2MIR: Beat Tracking Dataset Derived From Osu! Data
Ziyun Liu, Chris Donahue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12667 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12667

Osu2MIR: Beat Tracking Dataset Derived From Osu! Data
In this work, we explore the use of Osu!, a community-based rhythm game, as an alternative source of beat and downbeat annotations. Osu! beatmaps are created and refined by a large, diverse community and span underrepresented genres such as anime, Vocaloid, and video game music. We introduce a pipeline for extracting annotations from Osu! beatmaps and partition them into meaningful subsets. Through manual analysis, we find that beatmaps with a single timing point or widely spaced multiple timin…