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babgvant

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Tuning Play Doctor
« on: April 30, 2013, 11:38:15 am »

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

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Re: Tuning Play Doctor
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2013, 11:38:55 am »

When you skip, MC will learn.
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Re: Tuning Play Doctor
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2013, 11:40:39 am »

What does it learn from skipping?

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

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Re: Tuning Play Doctor
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2013, 11:44:27 am »

I think it only affects Play Doctor's list when you skip there.
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Re: Tuning Play Doctor
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2013, 11:48:28 am »

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?

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Re: Tuning Play Doctor
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2013, 04:58:08 pm »

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.
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Re: Tuning Play Doctor
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2013, 07:34:15 pm »

I'll try "Some Variety".

Hopefully that will get the Classical out of my Trance :).
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