I've noticed a bit of a pattern, and I'm wondering if there's a way around it through configuration of MIP or something.
I've just updated SpiceFly's SugarCube (which I love, but the way) and installed TrackStat so as to improve the quality of the playlist served up by SugarCube. So far so good. I chose a seed track with the intention of rating tracks as they played. (There are a few tracks that often crop up that I want to give poor ratings to, in the hope that they'll be overlooked in future playlist generation). By chance, I choose a track that I'd ripped from a 7" single. I noticed that each and every track subsequently served up by SugarCube (based on a fingerprint generated by MIP/GenPUID) had also been ripped from vinyl. I guess that it's because I have ripped most of my vinyl to a very high bitrate (most have now been ripped to 24bit/96kHz FLAC); my guess is that the higher bitrate is reflected in the analysis and subsequent fingerprint and all tracks are considered "similar" even though musically they're quite different. (Either that, or SugarCube is trawling through the same directory when serving up tracks - I have the vinyls/CDs/cassettes stored in different folder structures). Is there anything I can do to avoid this? The worry is that if I pick a non-vinyl seed track, then (a) either no other vinyl tracks will be considered similar enough and will never get added to the playlist; or (b) at some point a vinyl track will be added to the playlist and the playlist will then cycle through all my vinyl tracks before moving on. Any ideas welcomed! -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Squeeze Centre v7.5.3 +Multi Library +Custom Browse +MusicIP Windows 2003 SP2 Intel Pentium 1.5GHz 1.5GB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 132) Library of approx 13500 tracks (~95% FLAC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87570 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
