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:

1. The GStreamer implementation of BPM detection is not an optimal algorithm.
2. The sample of music passed to the algorithm is not from the most optimal time.  For example, the beginnings of some songs can be very different from their middles.

Maybe I'll take a peek at it when I have some time.

Neil

 

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.

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.