Re: [Banshee-List] Crossfading and BPM detection

[Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Fabien Basmaison
<fabien basmaison gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Neil.
>
> I don't know nothing about technical aspects, but looks like what you're
> talking about is very similar to this:
> http://hop.at/mirage/
>
> You might get in touch and maybe help...
> I agree automatically playing music based on the sound instead of either
> random or human criterias would be really nice.
>
>
> Neil Loknath a écrit :
>>
>> Just wondering if anyone is working on implementing crossfading?  Not much
>> in terms of updates on the bug report:
>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524300

I think crossfading would require using a new GStreamer element, maybe playbin2.

>> Also, I have just started peeking at the Banshee source and noticed a
>> IBPMDetection interface.  Is someone working on a BPM detector?  Or, is the
>> interface there just for the possibility of a future cool toy?

BPM detection (autmatic and manual) is available in SVN trunk, and
will probably be in the next development release. See
http://gburt.blogspot.com/2009/01/catching-up.html for more info.

>> I have recently taken an interest in developing a playlist generator based
>> on BPM and tonality.  Tonality meaning songs would be selected based on
>> their compatilbily with the previous one in the playlist.  Could be the same
>> musical key, or a third, or fifth of the root of the key, etc..  These are
>> some of the main methods DJs use for mixing, so I thought it would be cool
>> to implement for playlist generation.  I had posted about it on the
>> rhythmbox list, but lately I have been using banshee, so it may become my
>> go-to music player and, thus, may be where I start playing with this.

I'd be interested to know more about tonality. Can it be determined
automatically ?
I might be working on mirage (thanks Fabien for mentionning it), but
that doesn't mean I know much about "music as a science" ;)

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