Proportional Bias for Saved Playlists

[Ian Monroe]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Ian Monroe <ian.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:16 AM,  <furt at gmx.de> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> what do you think about a proportional bias, which matches tracks from a given
>>> "saved playlist"? So the user could create a dynamic playlist "play 80% tracks
>>> from playlist 'A' and 20% from playlist 'B'".
>>
>>
>> A proportional bias is an oxymoron. Its either a bias or its proportional.
>
> A proportional bias is not an oxymoron. It matches a proportion of the
> playlist to the given bias condition. You'll note that in the dynamic
> playlist UI there are 3 types of biases: proportional, fuzzy, and
> custom. So i don't really know what you're on about.
>
> (i agree that in the next revision of dynamic playlists what you say
> is valid. however that's not how things work now. it is simply a type
> of bias (the other being fuzzy and 'custom' [which is in turn last.fm,
> echonest, etc])

But it doesn't work proportionally. An honest name would be a field bias.

Ian