More > JRiver Media Center 23 for Windows
POLL: Do you use Play Doctor?
gappie:
--- Quote from: marko on July 17, 2017, 02:29:07 am ---Play Doctor is brilliant. I use it without a seed (don't ask, Matt doesn't get it either but promised not to try and 'fix' that ;)) and the list mostly always sorts itself out within a skip or three.
--- End quote ---
that is also how i use and love it. 😎
MusicHawk:
--- Quote from: Vocalpoint on July 18, 2017, 01:34:24 pm ---All of my 75000+ tracks are meticulously tagged (beyond belief) and the few times I have tried Play Doctor - it still makes me cringe.
Maybe my bar is set too high after using my Smartlists which hit 99% of what I want to hear at any given time.
To be honest - after creating a baker's dozen of excellent Smartlists - I do not see any point to Play Doctor. Then again - if you have no background in playlist creation at all - it may help - but it's logic makes it's highly unusable for me.
--- End quote ---
I'm simply posting the above because it is precisely my situation and lack of need for Play Doctor or anything similar. My tags let me create any Smartlist, which always yields exactly what I expect. I know my library -- every song was put there by me, carefully tagged. I'm not looking to be surprised, just served what I order.
Well, I like a little bit of surprise, so I use Smartlist with Shuffle, plus MC's radio-station-style track segue mode (oddly called Cross-fade aggressive). This makes me quite pleasantly surprised at what comes up next and how nicely MC segues song-to-song.
Accurate "tagging" is the key to using any database. Do it well, once, and it will forever provide satisfying results. This capability is why I adopted MC many years ago (MJ6, or maybe it was MJ5).
Spike1000:
--- Quote from: MusicHawk on July 25, 2017, 03:44:56 pm ---My tags let me create any Smartlist, which always yields exactly what I expect.
--- End quote ---
For me one of the pleasures of play doctor is that it often yeilds exactly what I didn't expect ;) That can be inspiring and creative. . . I've said it aleady it's like a Radio Station to me. I like the 'freedom'; but on the other hand I can see why this might grate with someone who's spent 15 years tagging thier music collection and creating playlists. . . :)
Spike
Cinelder:
It's a great feature. Would appreciate knowing (or if not, here's a request) if there's a keyboard shortcut to access it directly in MC 23. It would also be nice to have in JRemote.
marko:
--- Quote from: Cinelder on July 26, 2017, 09:31:56 am ---It's a great feature. Would appreciate knowing (or if not, here's a request) if there's a keyboard shortcut to access it directly in MC 23.
--- End quote ---
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,111545.0.html
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version