After experimenting for many weeks, this is how I tweak Sugarcube. Hope it saves someone some effort. -Trackstat plugin for play counts and dynamic ratings -Custom Scan plugin for MusicIP export. This is not needed by sugarcube but helps make static playlists, for whatever purpose, using MusicIP mixer (Windows only) -I have needed MusicIP plugin to enable communication between MIP and LMS. Nothing to do with Sugarcube. -Set up a primary filter to exclude what you never want. e.g. Genre contains-Speech, Christmas, Explicit etc. Ratings-*, ** etc. File-Path to any undesired folder -Use this filter as the first criterion for any more needed filters -If no recipe is employed, MIP suggestions are controlled by the filter, Mix Style and Mix Variety in the Player Sugarcube settings. Style seems to be overlap of genres and variety seems to be the closeness of the fingerprint. Go up on Style if abrupt genre shifts bother you. Go up on Variety to dilute the MIP fingerprint match. -The number of tracks requested is in Sugarcube Plugin settings. Sugarcube using Trackstat will then select a track from this list based on past plays and ratings. The MIP suggestions are in order of closeness of match. If the total music collection is large and the request is for many tracks, Sugarcube might get very far from the best MIP suggestions because of stats. One can control that by limiting the number of tracks requested. -Net results are very dependent on the size of the music library and stats. After using for about 2 months, Im hardly seeing the best tracks in my favorite genres but expect them to return back after Ive played or skipped (decreases rating in my setup) mediocre tracks
With the above setup, I have discovered the best way ever to effortlessly use my library fully. All of that has been made possible by the many wonderful developers and advanced users in these forums. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ guptaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21096 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73988
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