Re: [Banshee-List] Can the new Auto DJ feature pull similar tracks from Last.fm?

[amrhassan <amr hassan gmail com>]

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.
> 
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Mirage uses a lot of CPU and way too much resources, 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.
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