prabbit wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what are values for your settings?
I did play with them initially, then think I put them back to the
defaults... I have:
Code:
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Don't repeat artist for x tracks: 15
Don't repeat album for x tracks: 25
Don't repeat track for x tracks: 100
Min/Max Duration: 0
Number of mixer tracks: 5
Restrict Genres: No
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prabbit wrote:
>
> While it's perhaps to be expected, I've found that using the same seed
> song over and over plays the same group of songs (albeit in different
> orders), including songs I have rated low and would prefer not to hear
> too often, than occurs with Spicefly Sugarcube/MusicIP. This is true
> even though the playlist runs for hours. Sugarcube has a setting to
> exclude tracks below a certain rating, which "protects" me from hearing
> these lowly-rated tracks. My experience with Sugarcube using the same
> seed song repeatedly is different, in that it produces a wider range of
> playlists. I'm still playing with Similarity's settings, which is the
> genesis of my question.
>
> Curiously, Heart thus far seems to be the (Six Degrees of) Kevin Bacon
> in my collection. I used Stevie Wonder's -Superstition- as a seed track
> and soon enough got to Heart. Used Iron Maiden's -Can I Play with
> Madness?- and shortly thereafter heard Heart. And I played some other
> seed song from the 2000s and landed on Heart within a dozen tracks. This
> is anecdotally interesting because I don't have that many Heart songs in
> my collection.
I've never used ratings on tracks - although I can see why many do, and
it's something I've often considered.
I'm probably using it differently though, as I tend to think of a seed
track, see where that takes me... then often listen to an album I've not
heard recently that comes up... then seed from there etc. I do get what
you're saying about frequently re-occuring items though. For me it seems
to be Sting (I have one compilation, that's all), but I'm often seeing
that appear in the playlist.
However, when I compare the mixes to LastMix, where whatever I'd started
with, that always seemed to tend towards a ninties-indie mix (not least
because I have a reasonable number of such albums in my collection)...
With Music Similarlty, the mixes tend to head off in different
directions which I'm far more appreciative of.
I only have the one Stevie Wonder album (and no -Superstition-), and not
a single Heart track... so I can't test to see if there's any in-built
bias at play! ;)
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