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[babgvant]

I've been playing around with using Play Doctor to create dynamic playlists recently, and the results are confusing to me. For e.g. selecting "Electronic/Dance" nets a strange mix of good (Trance, Electronic, Electronica, Dance, etc.) and bad (Pop, Classical, New Age, etc.).

Is there a way to get a better understanding of how it works (maybe user error) or tune the results a bit?

Thanks

[JimH]

When you skip, MC will learn.

[babgvant]

What does it learn from skipping?

I don't want it to learn that I don't like a specific song.

[JimH]

I think it only affects Play Doctor's list when you skip there.

[babgvant]

Do I have to tune it per genre, per initial song, etc.?

How does it pick the songs in the list (i.e. some sort of 'best-match' scoring mechanism base on a set of attributes)?

Is this something where input from a plugin could impact the outcome?

[Matt]

If you're getting strange results, make sure you're using the default settings.  In particular, use 'More Variety'.  The 'Lots of Variety' mode intentionally includes outliers.

[babgvant]

I'll try "Some Variety".

Hopefully that will get the Classical out of my Trance .