Re: [Banshee-List] Crossfading and BPM detection

[Neil Loknath <neil loknath gmail com>]

Bertrand,

I built from SVN trunk last night and played around with the new BPM feature.  Unfortunately, my results were disappointing.  I think there could be 2 reasons for this:


 

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.