Re: Call for ideas...

Hello Jim,

> Whilest setting up a random play list I've decided NetJuke needs
> something to even out the types of music played in order to make the
> music flow from song to song...
> Can anyone think of a good method of defining the tone of songs?
I agree, I also had that idea once but I don't really want to specify
that for all my songs by hand. I even thought if it was possible to
determine the type of music by looking at the waveform - at least in
terms of (quiet/loud, slow/fast) which maybe could be automated.
But developing and coding that would require some major knowlegde in
sound analysing, if it could be done at all. I guess it'll remain a
vision ;)

> From what I can tell, this is something that will need to be defined
> on a per track basis, at least at first. From there, NetJuke could
> probably utilize the Comment fields of the ID3 tag (hope OGG has an
> equal feature) to keep this information for when/if we require a
> complete re-import.
That would be no problem technically (I think ogg has that feature)
and could be integrated in the new meta-data-editor if someone wants
to code it. Maybe it would be a good idea to specify a 'tone' by
Artist or Album too, to make it easier to define for a large amount
of songs.

What I will code in respect too 'better' randomizing is an extensive
stats-system. Netjuke 1.0b19 will record every played song for each
user including estimated playing-time. The latter can be used to
filter out songs a user has apparently 'skipped' in his player
together with a user-based play-count to generate a user-profile which
shows the user's preferences. Based on that data there will be a
'MyNetjuke'-page with 'my preferred tracks, artists, genres' (all this
actually already exists here as prototype ;-).

Florian <[email protected]>



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