Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Last.fm Recommendations Plugin

[giopas <linux giopas eu>]

giopas wrote:
> Alexandre wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've done a plugin to get similar tracks from Last.fm <http://Last.fm> 
> > and place the first track availiable in the library in the Play Queue, 
> > just like some other players have (I got the idea from Exaile, but 
> > Amarok has it too). It has a toolbar button to toggle it on or off, 
> > without disabling the plugin (anyone has ideias for the icon? I'm 
> > using a gtk stock icon which is not very good).
> > I'm looking for tests and features. It is pretty stable right now, but 
> > I would like to add a few more features.
> >
> > One feature I'll try to add later is to have a source with the song 
> > recommendations in it, including songs you dont have in the library 
> > (only if there is a way to distinguish between them visually, like 
> > colors or icons). It would update dynamically, and it would be 
> > possible to select a song from it to play (if availiable, of course). 
> > There are a few details to work out before implementing.
> > And an option to select how much songs should be added each time 
> > (maybe an option not to add any song when there is one in the queue?).
> >
> > Any feedback is welcomed.
> >
> > The link is here: 
> > http://airmindprojects.googlecode.com/files/lastfm_queue_0.2.tar.bz2
> >
> > --
> > Alexandre Rosenfeld
> >     
> Hi Alexandre!
>
> I've found your plugin *really* amazing!!
>
> about improvements, I think you could even start modifying (so that you 
> can integrate it and finish) the lastrhythm plugin, that retrieve song 
> suggestions from last.fm.
>
> Your plugin works smoothless on my dayly svn compiled rhythmbox, and I 
> think it has a good sex-appeal for rhythmbox newbies :D
>
> Nice work, please do more!
>
> enjoy, ;)
> giopas
>
>
>   

Hi again!

After using your plugin for a while, I've found that if you use it for 
some hours, it falls in a kind of song loop (I don't mean artists, of 
course).

I give you a quick exemple:

Coldplay (most rated) song -> Oasis (probably the most rated) song -> 
Radiohead (probably the most rated) song -> Franz Ferdinand (probably 
the most rated) song -> Stereophonics (probably the most rated) song -> 
Verve (probably the most rated) song -> ...  -> Coldplay the same 
(probably the most rated) song (that could be the same of the beginning)...

Obviously this is normal, because of the similarity retrieved by 
last.fm. Anyway I think that it would be cool to add a sort of cache of 
just-played songs, so that, after a completed loop, instead of playing 
the same song, it plays a new song of the same artist.

It's just an idea, because in such a way you have more chance to always 
play a different song keeping at the same time the "similarity 
principle" of last.fm.

My  2€cs.

enjoy, ;)
giopas


ps: I have a rhythmbox library of 130 GB, so it's not a problem of small 
choise...

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