A GSoC Idea

[Laurent Baum]

Daniel Jones 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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Definitely a great idea !!