Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Contextual information pane

[eric casteleijn <thisfred gmail com>]

The document and design looks interesting, definitely a worthwhile project.

Mister Ribble wrote:
> One of the first things that came to mind to me was information from the
> music genome project (not sure if it's DB is even available...) that
> shows "People who like this track generally also like..." with a link to
> queue up music from your own collection that is nearby.

There are several plugins available that can look up similar tracks to 
the one that is playing, according to different criteria. One that I 
worked on, does a similarity search on last.fm (and I plan to support 
libre.fm, when they implement that feature) and can also do an acoustic 
similarity search on your local harddrive.

I use that information to queue the next track, but your information 
pane could use it to list the 5 most similar tracks that the user has 
locally.

For the code see:

http://code.google.com/p/autoqueue/

Let me know if you'd be interested in using it, I'd be happy to put in 
some work to make the similarity code more independent of the actual 
queueing.

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- eric casteleijn
http://thisfred.blogspot.com