what's your mood...?

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

I am sort of planning on replacing the moodbar completely with
analysis info from echonest.com which can be rendered into something
similar, so I think putting too much work into it for now would be
wasted.

Aslo, the moodbar is currently very much a legacy feature, mainly used
by people who generated moodbars for their entire collection in the
1.4 days, and as such , they already know how how the moodbars for
their tracks look. For them changing it would make very little sense.

- Nikolaj

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking at web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While getting the moodbar rtl compatible for the slider i took a look at the
> code ... =D
>
> --> I should point out that i'm not really interested in this feature, so this
> is just a proposal - i'm certainly not trying to push things, take away
> anything from anyone or do long debates ;-P
>
> If i got it right, the information (loudness, i suppose) is only encoded in
> the color hue - the bar lengths are arbitrary and rather related to features
> of the color than of the actual data.
>
> If this is the case and intended,  i'd just paint the bars and overlay them
> with a gloss, gradient or whatever (the attached mock is done this way. the
> "mood" is just a gradient repitition.)
>
> As you can see a bright gloss will stress bright areas (for a gloss, direct
> gradients have other outcomes)
> In contrast, a dark gloss would support dark areas the same way.
> (this would be much faster than the current ::setHue() / ::drawPoint()
> implementation and we could easily invoke the current color scheme)
>
> Another thing is that I'd suggest to make the moodbar monochromatic.
> As a blank user, I was pretty confused and didn't see any relation between the
> tune and the bar (until I inspected the code)
>
> This way it will become much more obvious how to read the moodbar (as the hue
> wraps around and the faked bar length does the rest, while it's connected to
> the value in the proposal) - the user would just pick a color for the moodbar.
> (It would be less ...colorful, though ;-)
>
> Cheers
> Thomas
>
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