Last Updated on May 10, 2025 by stlplace
Music playlist is quite common nowadays. For me personally I was a bit late to the party. I did use playlist on my iPhone Apple Music app, and on my YT: both desktop and iPhone. But recently since I started to participate the group exercise class at the J, I realized playlist and music in general is a big deal. I believe the Yoga teachers at the J has a playlist too.
An example or case study
清新女声何璟昕：薄荷糖般的味道甜入我心 (QQ Music QQ音乐 ) Note: you will likely need to log in to see the content. For me I use my WeChat login (SSO) for many China-based website/apps. You can read more about Ayen 何璟昕 here
I created a few Playlists for Ayen 何璟昕 on YT and YT Music – this one specially for original songs – Ayen阿昕原创+新歌. Note I have the premium subscription for YT and it allows me to listen to the YT Music in the background, in addition to some other features such as skipping ads in a video.
And I just noticed she has some playlists on YT too: this one is for 翻唱 cover – Ayen cover 何璟昕的翻唱
She did quite a bit of 翻唱 (cover, or acoustic cover) in last few years. I like them all. Some of songs are new to me because I left mainland China in summer/fall 1997. Below a “mixes” of 翻唱 cover songs I listened on 04-08-2025 early morning – “Mixes are playlists YouTube makes for you” per YT. I think the link above may expire after certain time. Btw, I think “mixes” or the YT generated list is a good way to explore what’s out there, because YT will recommend new songs. So in other words, this kind of playlist has some discovery functions. Update 04-20-2025 Btw, I realized this is a dynamic list. Update 04-28-2025: I started to appreciate the computers (and the AI) may have an edge or advantage to create playlist, based on the listening history. The recommendation algorithm may be similar to the social media posts suggestion.
【Mr. 森林】Acoustic guitar cover | Ayen 何璟昕 (Oct 16, 2020, this is YT upload date, same below) Hint: this one has about one minute of funny behind the scenes 花絮/彩蛋 videos in the end – made me realize that it’s not easy to learn a new song and so on. Obviously, it depends on the song itself too. Also, I think many people would appreciate some of the light hearted carefree nature in the behind the scenes 花絮/彩蛋 too.
梅艷芳 – 似是故人來 Acoustic guitar cover 吉他弹唱 粵語翻唱+旗袍 | Ayen 何璟昕
千千闕歌 | 吉他彈唱 cover 陳慧嫻/張國榮 經典粵語歌 | Ayen 何璟昕 (Apr 17, 2020)
Eason 陳奕迅 – Shall we talk 女生版 Acoustic cover (Jan 21, 2022) I didn’t pay attention to Eason 陳奕迅 to be honest, and only till very recently I read his Wikipedia page.
陳奕迅 – 苦瓜 粵語吉他彈唱女生版（完整版）| Ayen 何璟昕
鄭秀文 | 終身美麗 Cover 吉他彈唱 何璟昕 (Feb 15, 2019)
一人有一個夢想 – 黎瑞恩 (Mar 30, 2021)
陳奕迅 Eason – 最佳損友 Acoustic cover (Aug 28, 2021)
謝安琪【喜帖街】Kay Tse 鋼琴+吉他彈唱 這是一首關於懷舊的粵語歌 | cover by Ayen 何璟昕 (Mar 22, 2020; make sure watch till the end 🙂
衛蘭歌曲串燒！低半度/驗傷/就算世界無童話/街燈晚餐 新歌老歌 吉他彈唱cover | Ayen 何璟昕 (Mar 1, 2020) This is a new experiment of singing 4 songs together (one after another) – 《低半度》《驗傷》《就算世界無童話》《街燈晚餐》
王菲/李健 – 傳奇 Acoustic cover｜吉他彈唱｜Ayen何璟昕 (Sept 30, 2022)
盛夏的果實 – 莫文蔚 Acoustic cover｜吉他彈唱｜Ayen何璟昕 (Aug 12, 2022)
你的眼神 国粤双语版 cover蔡琴/卫兰/林志美 Acoustic cover｜吉他弹唱｜Ayen何璟昕 (Sept 9, 2020)
周傑倫《回到過去》女生版宿舍版吉他彈唱 | Ayen 何璟昕 (Sept 25, 2020)
一场游戏一场梦 – 王杰 Cover 吉他弹唱 – 电影《风中有朵雨做的云》插曲 何璟昕 (Apr 7, 2019)
粵語民謠「四季歌」女生版 Acoustic cover 生活需要一些安靜🍃｜粵語歌吉他彈唱｜Ayen何璟昕 (Jul 22, 2024) My comment: one of my favorites, I like this simple folk song 🙂
阿郎戀曲（許冠傑）Cover 吉他彈唱 何璟昕 (Jul 16, 2017)
一生何求 陈百强 (Feb 26, 2021)
Other playlists I plan to create
Some of my older readers may know I have an iPod Nano 7th generation. Right now I just sync all my iTunes songs that I like from Mac to the iPod. Thinking creating playlist next (from Mac, then sync to the iPod Nano).
Usage of playlist
I think there are at least two use cases for me. One is the background music during work. Another one is background music for sleep. I used to listen to the radio (more specifically NPR or over the night it’s more likely BBC World News), but listening to news has its downside, because sometimes the news can be depressing, and other times news would keep me awake. I prefer some calming music over news. A secondary factor is using iPod nano as radio drains battery more quickly.
More on YT Playlist
I found playlist is integrated with YouTube Studio (I create YT video there too). I have 203 playlists: I think I need to clean up some. Also the link above is only available to me (because I am the owner of my YT Studio account).
PS:
Google search “can people make money from curating music playlist”
Search Labs | AI Overview
Yes, people can make money curating music playlists. Platforms like Playlist Push and others offer curators payment for reviewing music and maintaining active playlists. Pay varies, with some curators earning $1.50 to $15 per song reviewed, depending on their playlist’s listenership.
Btw, I just noticed two of my YT Music playlists have more than 1,000 views.
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