Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] In the Mood plugin thoughts

2009-02-10 Thread Neil Loknath
Hi Charlotte, I would hardly call your plugin a "failure." Of course, it would be great if it were kept up to date. ;) However, if anything, you did some interesting development in a new area of interest. A lot of different things in playlist generation are coming up these days, and it's alway

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] In the Mood plugin thoughts

2009-02-10 Thread Charlotte Curtis
Hey guys! I'm the "In the Mood" plugin writer, which you might have noticed hasn't received any attention at all since SoC ended and I started grad school (for which I apologize - it's not nice to be in the SoC "failure" category, but somehow school takes up a lot of time). For that matter, I app

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] In the Mood plugin thoughts

2009-02-08 Thread eric casteleijn
> I did some snooping around, and it seems that there hasn't been much > development around playlist generation based on tonality. Most of the > work is based on timbre. If anyone could shed some light on the reasons > for that, I'm all ears. Anyway, I think that a playlist generator based > on

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] In the Mood plugin thoughts

2009-02-04 Thread Alex Lancaster
> "AB" == Alex Bennee writes: AB> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:30 PM, eric casteleijn wrote: >>> Collaboration is the open source way :-) >>> >>> I'll have a look. No point re-implementing stuff if I don;t have to. >>> Any particular reason it's not been submitted for inclusion? >> >> For one

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] In the Mood plugin thoughts

2009-02-04 Thread Neil Loknath
Good to see that there is some interest in this type of feature! I'm going to take a look at autoqueue and I'm in the process of compiling Banshee and the Mirage plugin to test that out. I'm not too keen on using last.fm as a source for retrieving music similarity data, as a lot of the music it w

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] In the Mood plugin thoughts

2009-02-04 Thread eric casteleijn
Alex Bennee wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:30 PM, eric casteleijn wrote: >>> Collaboration is the open source way :-) >>> >>> I'll have a look. No point re-implementing stuff if I don;t have to. >>> Any particular reason it's not been submitted for inclusion? >> For one thing, I have no idea wh

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] In the Mood plugin thoughts

2009-02-04 Thread Alex Bennee
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:30 PM, eric casteleijn wrote: >> Collaboration is the open source way :-) >> >> I'll have a look. No point re-implementing stuff if I don;t have to. >> Any particular reason it's not been submitted for inclusion? > > For one thing, I have no idea where to submit it, for an

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] In the Mood plugin thoughts

2009-02-04 Thread eric casteleijn
> Collaboration is the open source way :-) > > I'll have a look. No point re-implementing stuff if I don;t have to. > Any particular reason it's not been submitted for inclusion? For one thing, I have no idea where to submit it, for another, the rhythmbox version could use a little UI love first:

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] In the Mood plugin thoughts

2009-02-04 Thread Alex Bennee
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:05 PM, eric casteleijn wrote: > Alex Bennee wrote: >> I'm currently looking at the possibility of doing something similar >> but using the last.fm web API to generate potential matches (which is >> how I think Genius works on iTunes). It will be interesting to see how >> t

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] In the Mood plugin thoughts

2009-02-04 Thread eric casteleijn
Alex Bennee wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Neil Loknath wrote: >> I recently compiled and installed Charlotte Curtis' GSOC project form >> last year: the In the Mood plugin, which can be found at >> http://code.google.com/p/rhythmbox-predictive-playback/downloads/list >> >> Congrats on a

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] In the Mood plugin thoughts

2009-02-04 Thread Alex Bennee
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Neil Loknath wrote: > I recently compiled and installed Charlotte Curtis' GSOC project form > last year: the In the Mood plugin, which can be found at > http://code.google.com/p/rhythmbox-predictive-playback/downloads/list > > Congrats on a very cool project, Charlo