technojunkie;309692 Wrote: > Can anybody please advise what the MusicIP validation process actually > does ? >
Essentially no, because ' it's patented' (http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,013,301.PN.&OS=PN/7,013,301&RS=PN/7,013,301) (though that does seem to be more about the fingerprinting than the analysis). With that said, I've certainly found that with all the settings at their defaults, if I seed a mix with saxophone-led bebop jazz, I'm going to get a fair amount of saxophone and a fair amount of jazz. If I seed using something with a lot of vocal harmonies, much of the mix will have vocal harmonies. Upbeat seeds generally result in upbeat mixes. I don't know how it does any of this, but it generally does it very well. The mixes it comes up with often remind me of my very favorite FM DJs from my youth, the independent stations where coming up with a flow was an art form. technojunkie;309692 Wrote: > I ask because, having tried to finely tune the mix paramaters within SC > and the MusicMagicServer I'm still getting some very "odd" mixes. > > Does the validation process flag tracks by genre, style of music, > feel/mood of music or some other method ? > > The songs in my library have not been all correctly tagged for genre > but I was expecting the MusicIP validation process to log this > information. It definitely seems to be music content-related. Though I have noticed that if I pick a live recording that's got a lot of crowd noise, the mix will include other recordings with crowd noise. Usage of the genre tag, which is not analysis related, is a flag you can set (which restricts the mix to the genre of the seed). technojunkie;309692 Wrote: > However if, for example, I select a rock ballad as the seed song, I get > a lot of songs in the mix that are not by rock artists and certainly > not rock ballads or anything similar in style or mood. Am I expecting too much from MusicIp or do I need to do some more fine tuning of the mix settings and, if so, which ones ? It sounds like you want a pretty restrictive mix, so perhaps you should set the Genre flag to Yes to restrict the genre (then you should only get Rock in the above example). In addition, increase the number for Style. The default is 0, which means to ignore the seed style. (Note that "style" is undefined). For Variety, what I've found is that with a variety of 0, you can create a mix from a seed and get 10 tracks, then immediately create a mix from that same seed and you'll get the exact same tracks again. But if you have Variety set to a higher number, it will vary the mix a little each time you seed with the same track. My default settings are Variety of 2 and style of 20, no genre restriction. With those settings, if I pick a track by Suzanne Vega that's just her and her guitar, I will get a mix that is largely (but not entirely) acoustic-based and will almost exclusively feature female vocals. I hope some of this helps! I love MusicIP mixer. I've said it before: I wouldn't have bought a Squeezebox if it weren't for that program. My whole family interacts with our music collection almost *exclusively* through MusicIP mixes. -- thing-fish ' Most Recent Tracks' (http://www.last.fm/user/thing-fish/?chartstyle=basicrt10) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ thing-fish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5288 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48270 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
