Some years ago I was amazed by the mixes MusicIP gave me, but abandoned it because analysing my collection took forever and I occasionally ran into issues etc., but more recently I've been using the LastFM mixer and these are pretty good on the whole for a ramble through my music collection.
However, I've always been considering what else might be an option - and this recently lead me to experiment with the Mixed In Key application which analyses files for their -key-, -energy -and -BPM-. The default -key -notation there is a Camelot alphanumeric value from 1A/B -> 12A/B, and the idea there is that mixing adjacent keys (e.g. 1A->1B or 1A->2B) should providing a pleasing transition. It's also based on the idea of a wheel - so once you get to 12B that should transition back to 1B. Of course -key -alone is likely insufficient, but adding -genre -and -energy -and perhaps -BPM -into that mix should theoretically work quite well. So this is the thought... The Mixed In Key software will tag the *comments *in my flac files with both the -key -and -energy -detail. (It also writes a BPM tag.) And the big plus with this for me is that i) The analysis is quite quick and ii) It does not impact any other tags in my library. This means my comments on my flac files now look like this: "2A - Energy: 7" or "9B - Energy 3". With that alone, I get a pretty reasonable mix if I just select tunes with a text search for "Energy: 7". I've also experimented a little with the Use Comment Tag plugin to expose these non-standard tags in the interface... but I was thinking, if there was a DSTM mixer to say, search for "Energy: 7", limit to Genre, then that would potentially work quite well. Even better would be to take that detail and limit progression in the mix - so for example only allow a 3A tune to jump to a 2A, 4A or 3B one... Or to restrict the mix to high energy tunes e.g. "Energy: 7" to "Energy 10", or restful ones, "Energy: 1" to "Energy 3". Not only would it work for the Mixed In Key example, but you could also use it for your own personal comments - like playing a mix of "Live" tagged music etc. Basically, pretty much anything people might want to include in their comments could form the basis of a DSTM mix. ANY THOUGHTS COMMENTS ON THIS? DOES IT SOUND LIKE IT MIGHT BE WORTH DEVELOPING? I've not done any plugin development myself so would not have a clue where to start! :-) (I've tried the advance search to do this manually, but unfortunately I don't seem to be able to, for example, look for songs with "Energy: 3" _and_ keys "1A" _or_ "1B" _or_ "2A" _or_ "12A".) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mruddo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115498 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
