Just curious to see if anyone has gone down this road with any of the existing plug-ins or other tools.
I would like to tie into the Last.FM "Top Tracks" charts for either an artist or album. For example: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Hold+Steady I can see two great uses for that. At a party, if I want to put a huge chunk of my library on shuffle, I would rather have the songs be kind of weighted to the more popular songs. For instance, if I have some Elton John in there, I would rather have it come up with songs that EVERYONE knows, rather than have it throw in some of his more obscure stuff. Greatest Hits albums in general don't necessarily get the job done since there's a lot of crap that gets thrown on those these days... I also tend to listen to a LOT of new artists. While I don't necessarily like to judge a band by what tracks everyone else is listening to, sometimes it's nice to get a little exposure to some bands by starting with some or their more popular songs. I've had albums where I gave up after a couple songs but then realize that I had started with a couple different songs, it would have been a better introduction. So most of this could be done by song ratings, but for the most part, the charts at Last.FM are pretty valuable. If you look at Elton John or the Rolling Stones, for instance, well, the songs really are pretty much in order that a non-fanatic would consider them. Of course you could always fine-tune this ranking a bit with your own song ratings as well... Anyway - see where I'm getting at with this? Anyone seen anything that would tie into this sort of data? -- spedinfargo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ spedinfargo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15712 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46136 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
