patch for new feature: acoustic fingerprinting and audio similarity

[Leo Franchi]

On Aug 12, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Gleb Litvjak wrote:

> I am not a part of the Amarok dev team, but here are my 2 cents:  
> this sounds
> great. Actually, I've been looking for something like this for ages.  
> LastFM's
> suggestions are good, but they aren't perfect, as I have many songs  
> from
> little known artists (mostly from Jamendo), which never get  
> suggested. When
> the music collection is rather large, it becomes hard to keep track  
> of every
> single song and its mood (and genre tags don't help too much - for
> example, "Crazy" by Aerosmith and "Kill the King" by Rainbow both  
> have "Hard
> Rock" as the genre, but their mood is completely different). So,  
> acoustic
> fingerprinting would come very handy. It even might become yet
> another "killer feature", proving once again that Amarok is indeed  
> The Best
> Audio Player Ever (TM)

Just to be clear, we are excited about this too. This could be /really  
awesome/.

That said, we also want to do it right. We want it to fit in to  
Amarok2 in the best way possible, and not throw away all the  
refactoring and work that has already  been done.

So we are very aware that this is a potential killer amarok feature.  
Bear with us as we figure out how to best work with this.

leo
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