jonlennon101 wrote: > Hi there, > > I am overjoyed to finally have MusicIP working on my Squeezebox but I am > having issues with creating mixes. > > In a nutshell, I get the exact mixes I want in the MusicIP program open > on Windows when I click Mix on a song say by Radiohead or Sufjan Stevens > and it produces 15 songs which fit well but are very rarely from the > same album, or even artist. > However much I change the Style and Variety amounts, I always get a very > different outcome with Sufjan or Radiohead, where it is often repated > from the same album or artist. > > > The simple question I have s how can I get the same excellent mixes I > produce in the MusicIP Windows program when using my Squeezebox? I would > far rather use the MusicIP plugin as the Spicefly one has produced to > strange a range of outcomes ((Bjork to Michael Buble!!!) > > Any advice you could give would be gratefully received. > > Jon Hi there, one thing you should keep in mind when comparing mixes from Spicefly Sugarcube & "default" MusicIP mixes is the fact that they operate quite differently: -Sugarcube takes the "seed song" and requests a match from the MusicIP server. When this song begins to play, it is promoted to "seed song" and the process is repeated continuously. -"default" MusicIP takes the seed song and returns a predefined number of matching songs. Once these are played, you have to create a new mix. This is the reason why the resulting mix can be quite different,as sugarcube essentially creates a new 1-song mix from every song it plays.
That said, Sugarcube also has a "legacy" mode, emulating the behaviour of the "default" plugin. I haven't tried it myself, but I believe it will differ only from the "defaul"t in that the mix will keep playing, each time based upon the last song of the batch. Sugarcube has a lot more "tweaking" possibilities for the mix creation. I'd urge you to look into them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bakker_be's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30369 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95936 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
