I have Variety set to 0 in both the global and player settings. The MiP Headless settings have Variety = 5 and Style = 2. I have never altered the Headless settings, since they seem to have no effect on the mixes MusicIP creates within LMS.
I have tried Style settings of 0, 71, 100, 150, 200, etc. These change the mixes I get, but not the fact that, if Variety = 0, the mixes are the same every time. Right now I have Style = 150 in both global and player settings. Have you tried this in MiP GUI? This is how the MiP GUI works for me. This is one thing that has persuaded me that this is how it's supposed to work. Further confirmation seems to come from Sidhue's post that you kindly directed me to: "If you select 0 [variety] you will always get the same "best" mix from a given seed song based on your other settings." However, in playing around with this more, I've found that I don't get the same mix every time unless BOTH the global and player Variety settings are set to 0. If either is set to nonzero, then I get different mixes. Oddly, the "Player settings for each mix" setting seems not to affect this. From the name, it sounds like setting this to Yes should allow individual player settings to override the global settings. But it doesn't seem to work that way. (I find the "i" button text for this setting ambiguous: "You may choose to give each player access to the MusicIP mix settings before generating a mix. Any player-chosen settings will override the server settings and remain, until they are changed again from the player. If you wish to skip directly to creating a mix, using existing player/server settings only, then choose no.") Re Style, I get the impression from Sidhue's post that it's a sort of composite fingerprint from multiple songs by a given artist. That makes sense, and it's a cool idea. Too bad my artists for a given song are all in a single tag separated by a separator character. LMS parses these into individual artists for me, but MiP doesn't. So since most of my songs have multiple artists, and they often change within an album, since personnel often differ from track to track on an album, I have an awful lot of "artists" by MiP's reckoning that don't have enough songs to generate the composite fingerprint. -- dpotts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dpotts's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29782 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92999 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
