[Banshee-List] Mirage 0.2 Released (Automatic Playlist Generation Plugin)

[Dominik Schnitzer <dominik schnitzer at>]

Hi,

Version 0.2 of Mirage is now available for download at
http://hop.at/mirage/ (see Homepage for Screenshots, Source and Ubuntu
Feisty Packages)

Mirage is an automatic playlist generation plugin, using music
information retrieval and AI-techniques to generate your playlists. No
Meta-Data is used to generate your playlist. It is good to re-discover
your music collection..

Changes for 0.2 include:
 - a gstreamer backend to analyze music (MP3 analysis speed is now ~2x
slower.. unfortunately (mad mp3 decoder)). no more bash-script to decode
your files. :)
 - better Banshee integration
 - use Banshee ActionEvent for progress monitoring and Job management
 - Ability to reset Mirage from the Tools Menu
 - rewritten PlaylistView for Mirage
 - Internationalization


Possible next steps include:
 * intelligent music browsing, like we've already done it for the iPod
with a music-colorbar (http://hop.at/mirage/ipod.jpg) [1]
 * improve the similarity measure: use music segmentation [2] (e.g.
finding the chorus of a song, to focus the similarity measure only on
the chorus)
 * Other ways to use music similarity in an audio player, like a third
Play Mode (linear (A-Z) - random - mirage)
 * Better machine learning techniques to learn from skipped songs...
(bad results)
 * A Helix backend. I guess MP3 analysis with a Helix backend would be
fast..

This is quite a long. I'd be happy for any comments on this :-)


regards,
dominik.

[1]
http://www.cp.jku.at/research/papers/Pohle_dafx_2005.pdf
[2]
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1677997&isnumber=35293