Three weeks in. Podcast 73 is up, and the rhythm I’ve been hoping for is starting to feel real.

The 6 AM streams are still rolling every weekday, and I’m more convinced than ever that this morning hour belongs to prayer. Podcast 73 is compiled the same way Podcast 72 was — the past week of live worship sessions stitched into a single listen. If you’re new here, the launch-week post walks through what Music To Pray By is and the tech behind it.

The thing that’s been quietly eating my time every week is timing. The piano sessions are recorded to MIDI off the Disklavier, and that MIDI is what feeds that week’s podcast, which in turn becomes the source for the Pray the Bible Shorts — the Disklavier plays the part back as real piano underneath the scripture and the prayer. The catch: I don’t play to a click. I sit down and worship. So when the MIDI lands in Logic, the bars and beats are nowhere near what I actually played, and tightening it up by hand — dragging notes, slicing measures, fighting the grid — could easily chew up an entire day or more, and up to this point — still learning the new tool — I’ve spent a minimum of 10 hours on each podcast from start to finish.

This week I finally sat down with Logic Pro’s Auto Tempo. Instead of manually correcting perceived timing issues by hand, Auto Tempo listens to what I played and bends the project tempo to match — no dragging notes, no slicing measures, no fighting the grid.

I haven’t taken a full podcast through with this knowledge yet, but based on what I’ve done so far I’m estimating it’ll cut a minimum of 8 hours of MIDI editing down to roughly 3–4 hours, and probably less once I get more fluent with the tool.

That’s a quiet, unglamorous tool change, but it’s the kind of thing that decides whether a weekly cadence is sustainable or whether it grinds me into the ground.

A smaller slice of time savings — maybe ten percent on top — comes from the AI pipeline I’ve been building. Between Claude Cowork on the desktop and Claude Code running headless, the entire post-production chain — silence trimming, the album-art intro card, the 1080p re-encode, the MP3 extraction with a clean fade to silence at the tail, the WordPress publish to musictoprayby.com, the cross-publish to piano-music.org, the Cloudflare cache purge, the social fan-out to YouTube, X, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook — all of it now happens from a handful of commands.

Auto Tempo is what really moves the needle on time. Claude just keeps the publish steps from becoming the new bottleneck once the timing work is done.

I’m mentioning this not because the tools are the point but because removing the friction is what makes the consistency possible. If publishing took twelve hours every week, this would have died at episode three. Because it doesn’t, I get to keep showing up.

Music To Pray By has been in my heart for a long time. The tech I keep writing about — Auto Tempo, the AI workflow, the Disklavier, the MIDI — is in service of one thing: giving you a quiet place to meet with God, every morning, on whichever platform you already use.

The podcast is the heart of it — a full week of worship, gathered into one listen. From it, next week’s Pray the Bible Shorts are drawn, scripture set against the same playing. The week after, another podcast, and another set of shorts drawn from that. One body of work feeding the next, and Lord willing, a steadier and steadier rhythm of prayer woven into ordinary mornings.

Thank you for listening, and thank you for praying.

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