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Gotta set up a README talking about how to install and use this thing.

• Downloading (probably should publish some binaries, huh?)
• Setting up Vault
• Writing the config file
• Getting the Spotify API token
• Getting Plex tokens
• Running as a daemon
• Configuring git

We should be able to pass in any two git refs (tag, branch, commit, etc.) and then pull all the music logged in between those two refs. This would let us have "release playlists", containing all the songs (ordered by frequency? ordered by date? ordered by both?) that developers listened to during a release.

So @dstaley pointed out that, in theory, this could be run as a pre-commit hook instead of being run as a background daemon.

Pros:

• I'm not making API requests every 5 seconds and writing to disk every few minutes
• Spotify would probably appreciate it
• There's now an operator in the loop for failures so when, e.g., I forget to restart the systemd service after unlocking Vault on a server restart, there's an actual error at commit time instead of getting wrong/no info

Cons:

• The API requests are now blocking for committing, meaning I'm introducing a potentially seconds-long delay between git commit and the editor popping up
• I'd have to actually do something, because it's already written the other way

This is probably the Right Way To Do Things, and I'll end up doing it some day when I get annoyed enough, ugggh.