Re: [Banshee-List] Crossfading and BPM detection

[Fabien Basmaison <fabien basmaison gmail com>]

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
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> Anyway, that's why I am asking.
>
> Thanks,
> Neil