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jengajumanji:
--- Quote from: eba on May 28, 2008, 04:24:43 pm ---#2) not sure why it should select certain artists multiple times, but anyway you state you want to be able to see what's coming up and rearrange them, so how about just selecting everything you want included, then right click, More -> Play (shuffled)? (also try the smartlists)
#3) you may want to take at look at these threads:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=39883.0
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=44532.0
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When you choose radio mode it says something like "radio mode chooses a portion of your library" so it looks like it plays 5 songs in a row from a genre and then change genre or something, just a guess, but the amount of times an artist repeats in a short period of time is discouraging. Thanks for the shuffle recommendations, I'll try a smartlist. The toolbar links were a great help too, thanks. Anyone have any advice on dealing with TV series in video?
Matt:
--- Quote from: jengajumanji on May 28, 2008, 05:19:40 pm ---When you choose radio mode it says something like "radio mode chooses a portion of your library" so it looks like it plays 5 songs in a row from a genre and then change genre or something, just a guess, but the amount of times an artist repeats in a short period of time is discouraging. Thanks for the shuffle recommendations, I'll try a smartlist. The toolbar links were a great help too, thanks. Anyone have any advice on dealing with TV series in video?
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The radio algorithm is actually pretty elaborate.
Make sure you have a newish build of the player, because it should be rare to have songs from the same artist played too closely together.
Also, remember that it learns as you skip tracks you don't like. That feedback loop should make the mix improve as playback goes on.
matt-uk:
--- Quote from: Matt on May 28, 2008, 07:33:48 pm ---The radio algorithm is actually pretty elaborate.
Make sure you have a newish build of the player, because it should be rare to have songs from the same artist played too closely together.
Also, remember that it learns as you skip tracks you don't like. That feedback loop should make the mix improve as playback goes on.
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I find it seems to get stuck in little patterns where it'll just play tracks from about the same 4-5 albums with the very occasional track from elsewhere.
sirrahmit:
--- Quote from: matt-uk on May 29, 2008, 10:19:28 am ---I find it seems to get stuck in little patterns where it'll just play tracks from about the same 4-5 albums with the very occasional track from elsewhere.
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I agree with this. After reading this post, I learned about the Play Radio feature and thought I'd give it a try.
I did not select the option to base it's seed on the currently selected files.
I have 394 artists in my MC Library and in the span of one day at work, I heard both Dave Matthews and Foo Fighters at least ten times each.
Not sure if it matters, but it seems to keep picking songs from a location of songs I just added that I have not yet done my usual maintenance to.
They have never been played, do not have a rating, and are in a different root file location than my files that have already had their tags maintained. Could that have something to do with MC making its selection? I would say the Play Radio mode selected 90% of the songs I heard today from this new location (which only has a handful of artists).
I love the Play Radio concept but it seems like it might need some tweeking or maybe I just need to keep using it more to let it learn...
Listening to: 'Broken' from 'Wonderful Virus' by 'Green Apple Quick Step' on Media Center 12
JimH:
--- Quote from: sirrahmit on June 02, 2008, 04:17:24 pm ---I have 394 artists in my MC Library and in the span of one day at work, I heard both Dave Matthews and Foo Fighters at least ten times each.
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That's probably because they are either highly rated or you listen to them a lot.
Radio also learns from what you skip. So if you don't like something, skip to the next track. If you do that before the mid-point in a song, it counts as a skip.
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