cpd73 wrote: > If your confidence in the Essentia scoring is so low, why use it? (I get > the number is made up, but it does imply a very low confidence)
It's not fair to Essentia/Similarity for me to say my confidence is low. That was perhaps awkwardly written. What I meant was that my sample size (i.e., the number of mixes I have created) is not large enough for me to be confident in my confidence of Similarity/Essentia, if that makes sense. And since I don't have a musical ear, I couldn't tell you whether a song was written in B# or E♭ nor do I know exactly why sections of each song Essentia analyzed to create its own values so I could listen to that same section and score it myself (a task I, frankly, am not interested in completing). Currently, I have no reason to doubt the quality of the data in my database. I just don't have enough experience with it; ergo, my low confidence. I expect my confidence will rise with more experience, which will inform what values I choose to create mixes that I consider interesting. I consider this normal, since I am a new user and as a new user I just don't know how the system works or reacts when I pull various levers. It's not a critique of the system or the data; it's of me. When I run "Similar tracks" or "Create similarity mix" and then compare any individual result with the seed track by looking in the database, the high-level attributes are indeed similar, explaining to me why the song was selected. And in some ways that's exactly -why- I use Sugarcube or SmartMix and now Similarity. I want to hear songs near each other that I wouldn't otherwise have thought of. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ prabbit's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11142 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115609 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
