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NEW: Search DJ
JimH:
Agreed. It still needs tuning.
markf2748:
--- Quote from: markf2748 on September 02, 2023, 12:57:45 pm ---Not clear to me how the "Play with Play Doctor" integration works (I'm not subscribed to Cloud Play). It always seems to yield "no search results". Add a Help page to the wiki :)
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My experience re how it works today:
Any selection rules which are set under Play Doctor > Options > Set Rules... act as a prefilter for Search DJ's "Play with Play Doctor". In this case only those items which get through the prefilter become candidates for the list displayed by Search DJ. When Search DJ succeeds in listing something requested, then filtered items which are not explicitly requested by Search DJ may also be displayed ("related items").
Search DJ's "Play" button ignores Play Doctor > Options > Set Rules..., i.e. no prefiltering.
Example: Set Play Doctor > Options > Set Rules... to "genre contains Jazz". Then ask Search DJ to list artist Lana Del Rey, whose music I have not tagged for genre Jazz. No items are found for "Play with Play Doctor", however "Play" lists her material from my collection. Then ask Search DJ to list artist Miles Davis. "Play with Play Doctor" lists much of my Miles Davis material, as well as some of my other Jazz tracks. "Play" lists only Miles Davis.
JimH:
Without Cloudplay, this feature should be interesting. But the real payoff is being able to find music outside your collection, but still related. It creates an annex.
jctcom:
I am curious.
What would be the difference between the new DJ button and having a smart Playlist configured with whatever options you configured (Or were going to configure in DJ) and selecting that as the basis for a "Play Doctor" with the appropriate percentage of CloudPlay configured?
Carl
markf2748:
How are input lists treated in Search DJ > Playing with Play Doctor?
More specifically:
It seems there is no guarantee that every artist in the input list will show up with at least one track in the output list, even with "No Variety" checked. Is that expected?
It seems if two artists in the input list are tagged with different genres, then they "collide" to produce no output list, even without an explicit Options genre rule.
If one artist in an input list violates an Options genre rule, then no tracks at all in the output list. Expected?
Number of tracks in the output list varies widely. What governs length of the output list?
Note: "Include Cloudplay" is unchecked for all these tests (Playing from Main Library only).
Fascinating tool, but it would be most helpful if JRiver gave some guidance as to the rules/algorithm/defaults for Search DJ > Playing with Play Doctor, especially for input lists.
Win11 Pro (64-bit) MC 31.0.56
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