Re: [Muine] New plugin: Ruffle playlist generator

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

Fun stuff. 

Added a link to the plugin page.

Cheers,

Jorn

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 18:34 +0100, Mark McLauchlan wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> Muine is great for finding and playing albums, but what if you don't
> quite know what you want to listen to?  Then you'll love Ruffle, the new
> plugin for Muine.  Ruffle is a playlist generator.  You decide what kind
> of music you want to listen to, and it will produce a randomised list of
> music matching those criteria.  A bit like Smart Playlists in iTunes.
> 
> Or rather, it could be just like that.  Ruffle is more of a framework
> for different playlist generators.  What it does (or will do) is mirror
> the Muine music library and add bits of information like music metadata
> (well, not yet, but soon), ratings, BPMs, fingerprints etc.  It also
> records every song the user listens to.  The playlist generators (I call
> them schedulers) can mine this stuff to make their playlists.
> 
> At the moment the plugin does all the basic database stuff and there are
> three rather basic schedulers.  There is also a Charts window where you
> can see your personal top 10.
> 
> This is still very much in the alpha stage, but most of the bits that
> are there work.  I'm hoping to get a bit of user feedback and some ideas
> for future directions.
> 
> The Ruffle homepage is here:
> 
> http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/mrm21/ruffle/index.html
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Mark
> 
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