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JimH:
--- Quote from: dtc on February 23, 2022, 08:19:55 am ---MC sees Sonos speakers and can play to them through DLNA. However, MC does not interface with the Sonos app and does not support the multi-speaker synchronization that Sonos provides.
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Right, but if MC plays to one, doesn't Sonos handle the second?
dtc:
--- Quote from: JimH on February 23, 2022, 08:22:42 am ---Right, but if MC plays to one, doesn't Sonos handle the second?
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Yes, you just have to go into the Sonos app and group the speakers, so it is a two step operation.
Gl3nn:
--- Quote from: dtc on February 23, 2022, 08:34:42 am ---Yes, you just have to go into the Sonos app and group the speakers, so it is a two step operation.
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Correct (I knew that). It's tedious, but it works.
henning65:
@ Awesome Donkey
About the feature request: "sonic similarity"
As a user, this feature is kind of a UI. But it is so much more. It is a different way of analyzing files. It is a feature which - I guess - would ask for serious work on the JRiver-software.
For now - as far as I know - JRiver can find "related" songs by analyzing meta-data. "Sonic similarity" is analyzing the song itself and is looking for similarities to other songs. You might compare this with other "deep data" analyzing algorithms. This would offer a new approach of finding songs in a huge collection.... For sure, if you have 1-5.ooo songs, that's done intuitively. But with 30 k songs or more such a tool would be very helpful.
Coming back to the topic: Forum Request Board
With such a board the debate about features could be structured. And it would help me - to understand, if I'm alone with my idea and it would help JRiver to learn more about it's clients. Not more - but also not less.
And one last remark - I'm not waiting for the next feature to listen to "pur music". Still I use JRiver for music. If JRiver could help me to learn about music in the way explained - that would be nice.
dtc:
--- Quote from: henning65 on February 24, 2022, 08:50:07 am ---@ Awesome Donkey
About the feature request: "sonic similarity"
For now - as far as I know - JRiver can find "related" songs by analyzing meta-data. "Sonic similarity" is analyzing the song itself and is looking for similarities to other songs. You might compare this with other "deep data" analyzing algorithms. This would offer a new approach of finding songs in a huge collection.... For sure, if you have 1-5.ooo songs, that's done intuitively. But with 30 k songs or more such a tool would be very helpful.
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This is the approach Pandora took back in the early days. They used the Music Genome Project which used up to 450 "genes" to identify similar music. It goes far beyond just matching metadata and is why Pandora is still the leader is creating "radio stations" based on a single artist. It is a very sophisticated approach and would be a nice addition to MC, but it is also a lot of work and is not an automated process. Pandora does not license the process or the data. It is exclusive to them these days. Some scaled down system like that might be possible, but would require a lot of work and lots of research. And, as you say, that approach is probably better for a very large collection of music, rather than a typical user's database.
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