Comments on: More 2.0 than just amaroK! http://www.sebruiz.net/126 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:15:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: zebarbu http://www.sebruiz.net/126/comment-page-1#comment-896 zebarbu Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:04:02 +0000 http://www.sebruiz.net/126#comment-896 <p>well, sebr, to follow our discussion of this morning on irc, I'm sure the wish #133884 can improve all that... lastfm is fine, but we could do even better by gathering more informations about the <strong>context</strong> the song is played. If Amarok record informations about the context, user's habits could be analysed and Amarok would be able to suggest more accurency things to him. Including lastfm! For exemple, I often listen jazz-club things for diners. Amarok could detect that: between 8pm and 10pm, when soft 'xscreensaver' runs, I chose to play that kind of music. So, when implemented (and habits learned), if I want Amarok to automatically select songs 'in realtime' for me, it would choose in my database jazz-club (or ask lastfm for playing some jazz-club radio) when those conditions occurs (time and xscreensaver is running). But after that, if I raise kdevelop, amarok would detect it and select the appropriate music (electronic/rock in my case), using my previous learnt habitudes). don't you see how powerfull it would be? we could 'forget' amarok in a desktop place, and it would CHOOSE THE RIGHT MUSIC FOR THE RIGHT CONTEXT, without user's intervention (or with very minimal one).</p> <p>I don't think this is Amarok devs rule to implement all that, but if you could think to a way that it could be implemented by plugins, I'm sure it would be fine, fun, furious and foobar. ;) Aren't you bored to review your database to find what next you could listen? (or after a while, switch to Amarok to change your lastfm station or your dynamic playlist because you've change your occupation) I DO think that it is not only a song tagging, because we need a more complet database, with an history of what had been played (with attached informations, provided by plugins, like time, weather, current focused soft, entry in the kde PIM-calendar to know what was planned for the current time,...). Then, a statistic/AI plugin could use this database to feed the playlist in realtime, to provide us exactly what we want to listen at the time!</p> well, sebr, to follow our discussion of this morning on irc, I’m sure the wish #133884 can improve all that…
lastfm is fine, but we could do even better by gathering more informations about the context the song is played.
If Amarok record informations about the context, user’s habits could be analysed and Amarok would be able to suggest more accurency things to him. Including lastfm!
For exemple, I often listen jazz-club things for diners. Amarok could detect that: between 8pm and 10pm, when soft ‘xscreensaver’ runs, I chose to play that kind of music.
So, when implemented (and habits learned), if I want Amarok to automatically select songs ‘in realtime’ for me, it would choose in my database jazz-club (or ask lastfm for playing some jazz-club radio) when those conditions occurs (time and xscreensaver is running). But after that, if I raise kdevelop, amarok would detect it and select the appropriate music (electronic/rock in my case), using my previous learnt habitudes).
don’t you see how powerfull it would be? we could ‘forget’ amarok in a desktop place, and it would CHOOSE THE RIGHT MUSIC FOR THE RIGHT CONTEXT, without user’s intervention (or with very minimal one).

I don’t think this is Amarok devs rule to implement all that, but if you could think to a way that it could be implemented by plugins, I’m sure it would be fine, fun, furious and foobar. ;)
Aren’t you bored to review your database to find what next you could listen? (or after a while, switch to Amarok to change your lastfm station or your dynamic playlist because you’ve change your occupation)
I DO think that it is not only a song tagging, because we need a more complet database, with an history of what had been played (with attached informations, provided by plugins, like time, weather, current focused soft, entry in the kde PIM-calendar to know what was planned for the current time,…). Then, a statistic/AI plugin could use this database to feed the playlist in realtime, to provide us exactly what we want to listen at the time!

]]> By: Christie http://www.sebruiz.net/126/comment-page-1#comment-249 Christie Sat, 03 Jun 2006 00:58:44 +0000 http://www.sebruiz.net/126#comment-249 <p>This sounds awesome, seb - and an elegant way to combine the power of last.fm with the sexyness of Amarok :D</p> <p>Looking forward to it.</p> This sounds awesome, seb – and an elegant way to combine the power of last.fm with the sexyness of Amarok :D

Looking forward to it.

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