Re: [slim] MusicIP documentation?

2012-01-02 Thread yeomanspc
+1 for spicefly and sugarcube. The utilities provided on the web site to get MIP up and running and sugarcube itself are excellent. A great way to rediscover all your music. -- yeomanspc yeomanspc's Profile: http://for

Re: [slim] MusicIP documentation?

2012-01-02 Thread Wirrunna
To add to aubuti's information, there is some good documentation on the SugarCube Spicefly site - http://spicefly.com/ I suggest that to start off you let MusicIP analyze just a section of your music - this will give you an idea of the total time needed to analyze your whole library and also let

Re: [slim] MusicIP documentation?

2012-01-02 Thread aubuti
I (and many others here) think it works great. And one of the very nice touches is that you can tailor how different or similar the tracks MusicIP playlist are compared to the "seed" track(s) that you use to generate the list. There are two parameters you set, Mix Style and Mix Variety. You can al

Re: [slim] MusicIP documentation?

2012-01-02 Thread dpotts
"patience both for getting things setup, and for the analysis of your tracks, which can take a verrry long time." Well, exactly. So I'd better read up first and pull the trigger later. :-) Following your advice, I looked harder for some discussion threads and found a couple of recent, lengthy on

Re: [slim] MusicIP documentation?

2012-01-02 Thread aubuti
Fair points about the references to musicip.com and such. I agree about the need for some background research, and would add that a lot of patience is required. That's patience both for getting things setup, and for the analysis of your tracks, which can take a verrry long time. I really enjoy Mu

Re: [slim] MusicIP documentation?

2012-01-02 Thread dpotts
Thanks for your reply. Perhaps I may be forgiven for thinking that this article's constant references to the defunct musicip.com website for info, instructions, downloads, etc., meant it was out of date! Fortunately, it begins to seem as if everything that's needed can be found at spicefly.com. T

Re: [slim] MusicIP documentation?

2012-01-02 Thread aubuti
Those "obviously obsolete" wiki articles still work for me when setting up MusicIP headless with LMS. A few months ago I changed the OS on my server and had to re-install everything, and this wiki article contains everything I needed to know: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Integrating_Music

[slim] MusicIP documentation?

2012-01-02 Thread dpotts
I have become interested in looking into MusicIP as a way of dynamically generating playlists of related songs, but I am having trouble finding out anything about it. MusicIP as a product seems to be defunct, but LMS includes a MusicIP plugin as though this were something we could implement. Howev