So, I get the “Genius” thing. Mimicking pandora.com is the hotshit thing to do, but it’s not the Right thing to do. I’ve given you my ratings: give me a “random” weighted towards those ratings. This is mathematically simple, especially since you only give me a one to five scale. (How to deal with zero-star songs is an open question, but I’ve got over a terabyte of music, and at least 250 GB of that has ratings, so shut the fuck up.)
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Don’t they already do this, somewhat, in the Party Shuffle/iTunes DJ with the “play higher rated songs more often” option?
Yes, but I find those pretty useless, since they source music from the whole “Library”. I want it within playlists, where the ruleset engine is pretty useless, since you only get AND (not OR) and can’t group selection rules before applying binary operations with other rules.
I usually simulate this using Party Shuffle (newly renamed iTunes DJ), with a Smart Playlist that filters to 3 stars and above (and possibly an additional genre filter, if I’m in the mood for something more focused), and the “play higher rated songs more often” checked.
Hey, maybe I should reload the comments page before hitting submit. Crazy thought.
Okay, I have now actually tried this, and I find it dismally insufficient. “iTunes DJ” selects N tracks (or N minutes, roughly? I’m not sure…) and when it gets to the end, repeats. That’d be fine if it were selecting 12 hours or more, but it’s like 90 minutes. So then after I hear something for the third time, I realize that I have to run up two flights of stairs and click “refresh”. BOOO!
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