Recently got MusicMagic plugin up and running, and wondering if anyone can share some MM experiences with me?
On the whole, I'm finding it pretty cool: it's generating some decent mixes for "middle of the road" stuff, but it seems to generate some unusual mixes for "on the edge" sort of stuff. e.g. if I go for a mix around some mainstream indie music (think Oasis, Coldplay, Travis - and you've got the general idea), it works like a charm. But if I go for a mix around some metal (think Helmet, Quarashi, Pantera etc) then it throws in a fair bit of techno-dance, and some embarrassing pop. Similarly, if I go for a hard-house type mix it throws in quite a lot of embarrassing pop. When I say "embarrassing pop" I mean that I've got a "Best Chart Hits in the world... Ever!!!!!!!!!!" album that I bought in a moment of madness. Among a couple of half decent tracks, there's some absolute dirge - including a kind half-hearted-attempt-at-reggae track by Boy George which is just shameful. Particularly shameful when it turns up in a mix of hard-house/trace. In fact, MM seems to love this Boy George track and keeps trying to sneak it in to almost any mix I request which is a bit irritating. I dare say it would fit quite well with something like UB40, for example. But I can't understand why MM tries to stick it in the middle of a punk-metal mix or a dangerously hard house mix. I've played with a few of the settings on the SB web panel (e.g. "MusicMagic mix style" at the max value of 200) but there seems to be only a marginal improvement. Also, MM application was running for nearly 2 days and has complete analysis - all tracks are apparently verified, and I rebooted the server and got slimserver to rescan the music library. As far as I can tell, everything is as it should be on the slimserver side - any settings I can play with in the MM application? I kind of loathe to delete stuff from my music library just for this purpose. Even if I don't like a some of the music, it goes against the whole idea of squeezebox to delete tracks here and there. Cheers! Dan. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
