I really like your ideas, and I've considered toying with just those
concepts. And one of these days when I get more time on my hands, I will do
just that. However, my tool of choice would not be FreeAmp -- it would be my
networked MP3 jukebox Obsequieum. The jukebox uses MySQL to store all the
meta data, which would make it easy to add your 'karma' table to the system.
Check out http://obs.freeamp.org for details on this.
--ruaok Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing
Robert Kaye -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://moon.eorbit.net/~robert
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Scriven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 9:35 AM
Subject: Playlist Ideas: karma?
> Hi.
>
> As my music collection grows, I've begun to recognize the
> usefulness of playlists and other types of song list data...
>
> So, instead of my usual "put the entire collection on random
> play", I had a few ideas about how to organize and manage
> playlists better.
>
> It seems that it's always enjoyable to hear songs you haven't
> heard in a while, and also hear songs that you like. But it's
> not so nice to hear things you don't like much, or songs which
> have been playing a lot lately.
>
> For the bit about hearing songs which haven't played recently,
> I found a solution. It just sorts songs by access date, and
> plays the oldest ones first:
>
> /bin/ls --color=none -utr `find $HOME/mp3/songs -type f` | \
> xargs -n 256 freeamp
>
>
> But it seems it would also be good if songs could be
> automatically rated so that the favorite songs would be played
> more often than less-liked songs. I have done this before by
> placing songs in various directories that indicate "how many
> stars" the song deserves. But this is not very practical when
> trying to keep songs grouped by artist and album.
>
> So, what if Freeamp kept a song database which stored
> information such as "karma", and used this database to decide
> what to play? Every time you hear a song you like, bump up its
> karma, and every time you hear a song which you're not too fond
> of, decrease its karma. This would essentially keep track of
> what you like, and be able to let you hear what you want.
>
> To keep "karma points" fair between new and old songs, and to
> take care of things which you get sick of after a while, the
> actual karma value could take other factors into account too.
> Say, something which balances the total karma points a song has
> received with its average points-per-play and its most recent
> point history. This would give high ratings to songs you have
> liked for a long time and also to new songs which are also good.
>
>
> :)
>
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