A GSoC Idea

[Rich]

On 2008.03.25. 21:13, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen wrote:
> Without being an expert on the topic, I think this sounds quite
> interesting. As the Smart and Dynamic Playlist functionality has not
> really been implemented for Amarok 2 yet, you could potentially have a
> lot of influence on the implementation, making your ideas fit
> naturally instead of being grafted on later.

i think 'weighted' option in smart playlists for 1.4 does this - only 
for score & rating. maybe the implementation could be interesting in the 
light of such a project.

> - Nikolaj
> 
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:05 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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  Rich