Aersia

Someone brought up an issue. This update fixes said issue. Sorry for the inconvenience.

• Fixed a bug that forced the player to fall back to the first track ("VIP - Introduction")! This happened if you had a tiny pool of Chosen tracks and they were all in the recent history list. Now, Chosen tracks completely ignore the history rule if you have a tiny pool of Chosen tracks! Having 1 Chosen track and setting it to play 100% of the time would be like hitting the Loop button but with extra steps.

In other news, I now have 6️⃣—7️⃣ patrons!


Thanks for listening!

Nothing ever happens in America. It's a very normal place. The internet is calm. Everything is perfectly normal. Ignore the background noise. Ignore the fact that reality feels like it's glitching out every 15 minutes. It is a quiet, boring Tuesday, and we are all very relaxed.

But just in case you aren't, here's the quasi-annual Mellow update. It's been almost 2 years since the last dose of sedatives. Why did it take so long? The music is just so damn boring and somehow slightly depressing.

I dug through the backlog to find random tracks that are the audio equivalent of putting your head in the sand.

A couple of users brought some specific issues to my attention that I couldn't replicate. Fixing the code gets tricky as it gets more complex, since everyone has different methods of accessing VIPVGM (different computers, browsers, networks). You can't really simulate every situation with the browser's developer tools. Still, I tried to vibecode the problems away. Let's hope the fixes actually fix the issues and don't break anything else.

• Addressed an issue that caused the player to pick a random track after clicking on a specific track.
• Addressed an issue that prevented the player from loading tracks or forced a reload when playing music.

In other news, I have a new patron!


Thanks for listening!
And also reporting your bugs!

It's a Holiday Miracle! I have a quick week one patch to fix some issues!

• Fixed an annoyingly unusual bug that makes the update popup randomly appear! It has something to do with that damn Service Worker again.
• Fixed the delay in reloading the page after a Service Worker update! It turns out browsers refuse to terminate the old Service Worker while music is streaming. It takes about a minute or more before it times out and applies the update. That's a minute of you staring at the loading splash animation. Solution? Kill the stream! See how annoying it is to work with Service Workers? Not even using AI makes it easy.
• Changed the caching logic from 30 seconds or 20% of listening time to 45 seconds or 50%! The reasoning is to limit bandwidth so that Service Worker will only cache a track that you're really committed to listening. 30 seconds is...

Today is VIP's 17th birthday! In internet years, that’s geriatric. In human years, it's exactly one year away from legal adulthood.

I don't have any new tracks for you today, but I have something just as important: version 3.. Thanks to our AI overlords, I'm confident enough to finally get VIPVGM out of beta! Working with AI has been a bit hectic, to say the least. I'm too cheap to use AI APIs or AI-assisted IDEs like Cursor. I'm also too lazy to exploit Google's free API by creating multiple accounts. So, I've only been using chatbots for help with the codebase, mainly Gemini 3 Pro in AIStudio. Thanks to its 1-million token context window, VIPVGM is small enough for it to allow me to upload the entire codebase.

Unfortunately, even the most advanced AI available makes quite a few mistakes and overlooks some context elsewhere in the codebase. So, when it fixes one bug, sometimes it creates another. The more you go back and forth,...