On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Doug Friend wrote:
Great feedback, thanks!
Richard Smith who's been working on a offshoot of PyTone called What I've started DanceBox & I have been discussing requirements offline for a little bit. We've found the requirements of what I'm trying to do and what he's been working on fit pretty well. Gotta love OpenSource :)
I hope it pours back into pytone though.
What I've started to work on, _very_slowly_, is creating a MySQL back end. As I wrote in my intro, I'm a Python newbie, so this is a serious but so far pleasant learning experience.
Well, I hate mysql and my opinion is that too much people use SQL servers for tools that do not require them. Have you looked at sqlite ? At least it does not require you to set up and administer a mysql server and you can have pytone migrate the data instead of requiring the user to do all that.
A tool like pytone needs to be self-contained (it can depend on libraries, but not on back-end deamons and othe complexities that most people don't want to be forced into).
Richard & I have been planning on posting this to the list & Jorg for comments with the hope that this can be merged into PytONE. What I'm looking to create is a playlist generating engine that will take the following parameters into account:
Rating (I'd prefer 1-10) Tempo Texture (how heavy a song is) Time last played (song) Time last played (artist) Musical category Naughty words content
Basically, the playlist engine will be kindof like a radiostation in a box.
Seems ok. I wonder if you can filter out if it is only instrumental or contains vocals too :) Or is it possible to even categorize songs into genres by use of a neural network that has been trained on tagged songs.
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]