I think everyone agrees that music is all about emotion. Music creates emotions and sometimes you want to strengthen your current emotion through music.
In all kinds of theories about emotion, including the ancient chinese ones, there are 7 emotions: Sadness, Anger, Surprise, Contempt, Enjoyment, Disgust, Fear Why not think of a way to be able to select music on the (combination of the) rating of one or more base emotions? I could imagine a circle with all emotions on them and per emotion a rating from 0(no emotion)-3(high). Like in Excel, you could then create something like a radar-graph (spiderweb) which represents the "emotion area". Also notice that a rating system always should have an even number of choices, so it makes it harder to go for the easy middle way.. When you want to select music, you just select the ratings for emotion the emotions you want to have your selection stay within. If you set the "anger emotion" to 0, no song will be played which will make you angry. If you set Enjoyment to 3, all songs with 3,2,1 ratings are in the filter, but songs with 3 will be played first, or last, depending you want to strengthen of diminish you mood. The lower the rate, the more relaxed you are, with the ultimate relaxedness: all zeros:no emotion, no heartbeat..;-) You could point out your current emotion(s) and desired emotion(s). The music mix will slowly bring yo there! Wouldn't that be magnificent?? I know it'll be a lot of work to mark all songs, and all marks are personal. Perhaps storing the emotion-ratings in different fields. On the squeezebox, rate the song by using the cursors to set the spot or area of all rated emotions. -- Eelcovb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eelcovb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9999 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32202 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
