On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Gordon Haverland <[email protected]> wrote: > On November 19, 2009, Clint Adams wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:36:56AM +0100, Maciej Łoziński wrote: >> > What is the state of the recommendation/stats engine of >> > libre.fm? I made a quick look at the code, and haven't >> > noticed anything in subject. Is anyone >> > coding/designing/thinking of it at the time?
snip > We can observe correlations between people's complete libraries, > which I believe (with no proof) is what Last.fm does. We could > look at the time series of songs that people listen to: what is > the probability that a person wants to listen to classical music > within N different songs? If we want to do something like this right, will we not need some player cooperation? A toggle to send along info as to whether this series of plays is from a personally hand ordered playlist or not. (personally chosen order versus randome, computer chosen or "other" chosen of some sort. snip > > Sorry, no solutions. I have done statistics a long time, and I > have thought about how one plays music "at random". > > Take care. > Gord all the best, drew -- http://freemusicpush.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Libre-fm mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm
