Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Summer of Code Proposal: A predictive playback plugin for Rhythmbox

[giopas <linux giopas eu>]

Charlotte Curtis ha scritto:
> I am interested in developing a predictive playback plugin for 
> Rhythmbox.  Based on a combination of music feature extraction (such 
> as beat) and id3 tag information, the plugin would detect which songs 
> are most similar to the song or set of songs currently selected.

Hi Charlotte,

I find your project interesting, especially for the "tempo" variable. 
However I think that such plugin can't be really rely on id3 tag 
informations, most because everybody class its music in a different way. 
I give you an example, U2's music genre could be "Pop/Rock", "PopRock", 
"Pop" or just "Rock" or whatever...

Therefore, I think that genre variable should bettere be relied on an 
external source like last.fm.

Actually, Alexandre Rosenfeld has already issued a plugin based (quite) 
on the same principle: Last.fm Dynamic Tracks (have a look on rhythmbox 
site). I suggest you to have a look at it in order to see if you can use 
some features from it.

enjoy, ;)
giopas

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