On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 18:46 -0700, amrhassan wrote: > > > Christopher James Halse Rogers-3 wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 07:30 +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > >> On Monday 12,October,2009 05:26 AM, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: > >> > On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 23:02 -0700, amrhassan wrote: > >> >> Hi, this would be the one feature I'm messing from Banshee. So far > >> Banshee > >> >> only seems to pick tracks at random on Auto DJ. Is this feature > >> considered? > >> > > >> > It sounds like you're after something like iTunes' recent "Genius" > >> > playlist feature? If that is indeed what you're after, the mirage[1] > >> > Banshee plugin does music-analysis and similarity-based playlist > >> > generation. > >> > > >> > At this point it sort-of duplicates the Auto DJ interface. It might be > >> > nice to integrate as a playqueue fill source, maybe. > >> > > >> > [1]http://hop.at/mirage/ > >> > > >> Actually git master has a Play Queue that can automatically fill itself > >> based on > >> criteria, as described in this thread. > > > > Yes, but those criteria do not include "Similarity" :). > > I haven't looked into that part of the PlayQueue code; it really would > > be good to hook mirage up into that combobox. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > banshee-list mailing list > > banshee-list gnome org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/banshee-list > > > > > > Mirage uses a lot of CPU and way too much resources, Not in my experience. It's got a high up-front cost while it indexes your music, but that's a once-only CPU hit. After that, I find Banshee's CPU utilisation to be indistinguishable with or without mirage. > I was thinking of > simply pulling the similarity data fom Last.fm's API and use it to generate > playlists, like it was on Amarok 1.4 and Exaile now. That'd be interesting, too, although I tend to find mirage generates better suggestions.
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