New idea for dynamic playlist

[Christoph Spielmann]

Hi!

I've been working on a similar idea:

I use last.fm to get the similar artists for the current playing artist, 
select one and a random track of this artist is appended to the 
playlist. To get a good mixture of artists in the playlist i developed a 
method such that EVERY artist in my collection has the chance to get 
added to the playlist, even the artists that have just few tracks in my 
collection have the chance to get added to the playlist. From my tests i 
know that just using last.fms-similar artist feature is not good enough 
(at least for me...) so i also take the top 5 tags that are assigned to 
the artists into account.

It would be interesting to have a way to use the actual audio-data to 
calculate similarity between tracks, that's why i was a bit disappointed 
that Teo Mrnjavac's proposal 
(http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg7vjhzd_2fdctd3cs) for this years GSOC 
was not chosen because this would've given script developers the tools 
to do this.  I know that Soren Harward was (is?) working on something 
similar but the problem with his solution is that it uses gstreamer and 
to be honest gstreamer s*** in combination with phonon. I've tried 
several times to get it to work with phonon and i always failed big 
time. So something on the level of phonon would be better in my eyes but 
maybe we see something like this in the future.

If somebody is interested in my script just holler. I can always use 
testers ;)

Christoph

On 05.05.2009 04:55, Bernhard Posselt wrote:
> So i have to say im a fan of libraries like iTunes, Rhythmbox and most music
> apps use.
>
> I like these apps for one thing: they allow me to be lazy and not to care
> about a playlist.
>
> So my basic problem in Amarok is: i create a playlist of a band that i like
> atm and after all songs are played i have to switch back to amarok to search
> in my large collection to add the next songs which takes some time with 27k
> songs.
>
> When i used those library based players i didnt care cause there was music
> anyway. I just selected a startpoint and i didnt have to change it unless a
> band which i didnt like showed up. Back in 1.4 i used to load my entire
> collection for this into my playlist.
>
>
> After some discussion on IRC i guess we found the solution for the problem:
> What if we had a some kind of dynamic playlist or option where you can set,
> that after the playlist ended, it appends all of the albums of the next artist
> in the alphabet to the playlist. Some kind of autoadd. And if you dont like
> the next band you can click on some button which loads the albums of the next
> artist into the playlist.
>
> Two things would be achieved:
> Support my lazyness and dislike of playlists
> and
> Providing a library like feature which keeps the playlist small
>
>    

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