Oh Erland, how exciting is this :) So, first, let me say that I have been using a Slimp3 or SqueezeBox devices for a long time and have a large music collection (72000 + tracks of all kinds of music) and have been trying to find the perfect system for some time. During this quest, I have seen and played with a lot of options and there is nothing I like more than SqueezeBox ... but there is one thing that I have been wanting and been meaning to look into for some time.
I used for a couple of years J. River MediaCenter (have no worries, I'm back from the dark side <grin>) and there is a few things that that community does well, but the very best plug-in they have that would go along the lines of what you are suggesting is the LastFM Auto-DJ which uses LastFM to build a dynamic playlist from your own library. This is a great way to discover, or at least rediscover your own music. Here's a short description from their own forum post located here - http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?PHPSESSID=c19d3c1be0d7c1a4056d86ab6029f2ee&topic=47579.0 "Looks up the currently now playing track on lastFm and searches for similar tracks that are in the music library. Based on the track list returned, this is cross referenced with the MC database and then recently played tracks are removed. The tracks are weighted according to the match given to them by Last.Fm and track is selected. Tracks by artists who have recently been played can be weighted negatively, preventing them being selected unless there are no other tracks. A track will be added to the Now Playing list that is hopefully similar to the last track played. This operates on the last track on the now playing list, hence instead of looping or stopping, a new track will be added." What I like most about this is that based of your listening history and scrobbles to LastFM, the plug-in queries LastFM's recommendation engine and selects music from your own library. The source code is even posted which might be a good starting point. Of course as a non-coder, this seems like a monumental task to recreate this from SqueezeBox but it might not be as difficult if the original code is clean and efficient ... yeah, right :) I would love to see this type of functionality available to SqueezeBox !!! Does that fit in your idea ? -- Berg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Berg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=284 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80910 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
