prabbit wrote: 
> 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.

Have you tried Craig's MusicIP mixer plugin? It also works with "Don't
Stop the Music".

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