tamanaco;260510 Wrote: > Now I need to figure out what the settings for the MusicIP plugin do > exactly. Is there a place where I can read about these besides the "i" > next to the options in the Web UI? At first glance these "numeric" > values are not very intuitive.
In my experience, the best thing to do is have a play with the various settings to get a mix that you like the look of, but my very short explaination would be: *style=x* The similarity of style setting. 0 is low, 200 is high. So a style setting of 150 means "artist with a style very similar to my seed song", and a style setting of 50 means "artists with a style not that much like my seed song". If you set the style to be strongly preferred, you will only get songs by a small number of artists, or from a small number of CD's. According to the MIP site, a song must either be on an album of 6 or more tracks, or the associated artist must have 6 or more songs in order for the MusicMagic Mixer to associate a style with him or her. I use a style setting of between 125-130 for what it's worth. *variety=x* The variety setting. 0 is none, 9 is high. Determines the amount of variety in the mix from a given seed song. If you select 0 you will always get the same "best" mix from a given seed song based on your other settings. If you select 1-2 you will get a small amount of variety if you trigger two or three mixes from the same song. I find that a variety setting of 3+ is too much and reduces the quality of the mix, so I tend to stick to 1. I'm not clear if you are running the headless service of MIP or not. If so, you need to set these options in the mmm.ini file as well. *Genre=Yes/No* - if you want MIP mixes to be restricted to songs with the same genre, select yes. tamanaco;260510 Wrote: > After running Spiceflysyncer I selected all the options available within > its GUI. I also modified the registry to start the MusicIP headless > before the SC server. I then rebooted the server and the MusicIP > Importing function started automatically. I'm a bit confused as to how > I should setup these (Spicefly and SC) so that the MusicIP import only > starts manually. Change the MusicIP reload interval to 0 (server settings/MusicIP). The import will only start when you do a full clear and rescan of Slimserver/Squeezecenter. tamanaco;260510 Wrote: > I ask because when I re-start the Spiceflysyncer it starts the MusicIP > GUI and the status in the lower left hand side says that is > "validating". Is the whole process of importing being started all over > again?... What's does validating mean? I'm still a bit confused. Validating is the process that MIP needs to go through to analyse your music before it can serve up mixes. If you haven't validated all your music yet, I'd strongly recommend you do that before integrating it with Slimserver. Validation can be pretty CPU intensive and I've always found it best to let it get on with it. Loads more info on the MIP site: http://www.musicip.com/mixer/mixerfaq.jsp#9 tamanaco;260510 Wrote: > Edit: Can I delete playlists that have been imported from the MusicIP > Mixer using the Web interface? There are no Save, Add and Delete > options once I click on these playlists. I don't think so, only from MusicIP. I change the prefix for those playlists to ZZ: so that they appear at the bottom of my list of playlists and don't interfere with my normal Slimserver playlists. -- Siduhe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42419 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
