[Feedback] "Genius Playlists" Feature

[Teo Mrnjavac]

On 9/16/08, sccrules94 at gmail.com <sccrules94 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Erik Thiem sent a message using the contact form at
>  http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>
>  I have recently been to Apple's iTunes's website, and I read about a new
>  feature in iTunes 8 that could be nicely implemented in Amarok. It is called
>  "Genius Playlists".
>
>  Genius Playlists - "The new Genius feature in iTunes 8 creates the perfect
>  playlist. Just select a song, click the Genius button, and iTunes generates a
>  playlist of songs from your library that go great with it. You decide how
>  many songs appear in your Genius playlist — 25, 50, or 100. Refresh your
>  Genius playlist to get new results. Or save your Genius playlist so you
>  always have it." (from the website)
>
What do you (or they) mean when you say "go great"? Similar genre, or
artist, or year or bpm or what? Is it somehow based on fingerprinting?
We already have biased playlists that kinda do this, but I'm not sure
what does the feature that you are suggesting do.