[mythtv] PATCH: mythmusic enhancements

[Eric Andresen]

On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 23:24, Henk Poley wrote:
> This should be optional...

Agreed. The patch will have to be reworked once thor's playlist patch
gets in anyway.

> btw, some things about MytMusic that come into my mind when stumbling
> across this mailinglist. Some of these might be nice to add to MyMu. I
> don't have a running system though.
> 
> - Music rating, take a look at http://www.RoboDJ.org/
> It's still a pretty experimental system but it works quite right. I'm
> unsure if MyMu uses the same approach for ratings.

MythMusic uses a fairly simple algorithm for its Intelligent Shuffle,
based on a 0-10 rating, Times played, and time of last play.

> - Music rating/recommendation, http://www.Audioscrobbler.com/
> This system keeps track of the songs you play and computes a recommendation
> on that, based on other users ratings. I know that most linux users are a
> bit picky about such "spyware", but I think it's usefull. 

Not interested.

> - Music retagging/renaming, http://www.MusicBrainz.org/
> This is a system that analyses your music and does an educated guess on
> what song it might be. In stead of renaming you might also move/symlink the
> incorrect name in(to) a 'old-names'-dir or something. Some people might not
> like retagging.

This shouldn't be part of a player... Use cantus for things like this.

> 	Henk Poley <><

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