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POLL: Do you use Play Doctor?

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MikeO:
I don't really use it. Maybe someone could explain how it works and what tags need to be accurate for it to work

I guess the Genre tag , mine have had little attention in rock etc hence I get a bit of a scrambled mix.

When I evaluated "another product" it was feature I liked.

I'll give it more of a go

Mike

Spike1000:

--- Quote from: MikeO on July 20, 2017, 08:39:14 am ---I guess the Genre tag , mine have had little attention in rock etc hence I get a bit of a scrambled mix.

--- End quote ---

It might depend on what you expect it do :)

For me it's like a radio station (the volume leveling means all the tracks play at the same level). If I seed it with a track by a female artists it largely plays tracks by female artists. It can drift off onto other things but I don't mind that. I tend to seed it with just one (or maybe just a few tracks) that are similar so I guess that gives it a clue where to start. If you seed it with a wide mixture of tracks I guess you'll get a wide mixture as the output and that may not be pleasing to the ear :)

I feel it follows the BPM of the tracks and their dynamics to a degree (I think how it exactly it works is a bit of a 'trade secret'). Try seeding it with just one track and see what happens. . . You may have been doing that already though. I find it can revisit the same album quite a bit with just one seed and does repeat tracks (which is a minor annoyance) but I still like it.

Spike

William-NM:
Thanks - this got me to play around with it a bit. I tweaked the rules a little with some of Marko's suggestions  :D, and I'm enjoying it. I have hundreds of mostly smartlists for favorites by artist/genre/decade, etc., but even with 'shuffle' set, they can get a little 'stale'. Nice for those of us with 'indecisiveness' issues, too. One of the things I like about MC is that there's always something new (to me) to try. 

mark_h:
Hadn't really bothered with it, as I've curated my own smartlists for playback, however, I've been trying it over the past few days and really enjoyed the ability to stick in an artist and then see what comes out.  Seems to work pretty well.  Shall be using it more moving forward.

Windcrest77:
I'd want to like it, but it always returns results where songs are heavily duplicated (like 5 to 9 times each duplicated).

I have my settings set as follows:

Return 1 hour of media
Audio only
Greater than 3 star rated
Omit duplicates on "Name"
Omit duplicates on "File name and file path"

Even with the above settings it consistently returns about 100 line items, out of those 100 there are only typically 19 DISTINCT songs (so each of those 19 are duplicated 5 times to come up with 100).

If I can get it to NEVER duplicate a song, I will use it. But as far as I'm concerned Play Doctor is a flawed, broken function with a serious bug in that it cant return a list of distinct tunes, it has a serious song duplication issue. My library has 250,000 tracks and maybe 30,000 of those are 4 stars or better, so my rules above should find plenty of data to work with. But the duplication is a problem that is always there.

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