gharris999;425522 Wrote: > > What complete BS. On 99% of my 20k classical mp3 tracks, all genius > has to say is "Genius is unavailable for the song "xxx"." > > Just about the only classical tracks that Genius cared to take a crack > at were Yo-Yo Ma recordings. And even there, the playlist results were > laughable. Debussy followed by Biber followed by Pärt followed by > Dowland followed by Verdi followed by Piazzolla. This is no better than > a completely random selection. Genius has no taste. > > Clearly, "genius" isn't performing any sort of acoustic finger-printing > and choosing playlist elements based on like sounds. > As I've understood it, Genius is only available for music available in the iTunes Music Store. I have the same experience as you, it works for popular pop/rock tracks but if you try it on more unusual stuff it doesn't work.
I'm not sure if Genius is based on acoustic analysis or if it's just based on purchase/listening statistics from users connected to the iTunes Music Store. gharris999;425522 Wrote: > > Is MusicIP / MusicDNS any better than "Genius" at auto generation of > classical music playlists? > MusicIP will at least always be able to generate a mix since its based on acoustic analysis of YOUR music files. It still makes strange choices sometimes but my experience is that it often creates pretty interesting mixes. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) 'My download page' (http://erland.isaksson.info/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63614
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