A GSoC Idea

[Casey Link]

I like this idea in theory, but as you made clear, I'm not sure how it
would be implemented.

But I like the idea of getting dynamic playlists with some surprises thrown in.

Hmm, another example would be creating a 'Dance' genre playlist that
would show variable preference to higher rater tracks. But still mix
it up, so non-so populat tracks get played along side the classics.
Keeps things interesting.

Casey

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Daniel Jones <danielcjones at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I had an idea which I think would be fun to work on as a GSoC project.
>
>  I'm interested in the possibility of bias is dynamic playlists. Already smart
>  playlists allow a playlists to be conjured up that meet strict conditions. My
>  idea is to do something very similar, but with non-strict conditions, or
>  biases.
>
>  For instance, rather than a smart playlist consisting of only songs you
>  haven't heard before, we could create a biased playlist which just prefers
>  unheard tracks, to a variable extent. More complex biases could be added to
>  make very customizable yet suprising playlists. I'm imagining something
>  almost like a graphic equalizer for playlist composition. As far as I know,
>  no other media players have anything like this.
>
>  This isn't a trivial problem to solve and I'm still in the midst of
>  researching it. But, it seems like something up my alley, as well as
>  something that could be a unique feature for amarok. It's an idea I'm very
>  interested in developing further.
>
>  Has anything like this been considered yet? Does anyone have any thoughts on
>  how this would fit in with existing smart playlists and dynamic playlists?
>  Or, would this even be a useful feature?
>
>  Daniel Jones
>
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