Hi.

I\'m impressed with Dynamic playlists. So much so, I got really into them on Saturday night and started wondering how I could influence them to provide a smoother mood experience.

I have searched all over for info on the algorithm that you use and havent got source-code skill to reverse-engineer your algorithm but am I right in saying that you only use related artists from last.fm to bring in new tracks?

I\'d like to see the use of Genre too if possible. That is, take my ID3 genre tag, lookup top 5 artists from last.fm, take the sample of top 5 last.fm tags from each artists and use only suggestions within these parameters to choose tracks.
Alternatively, add a last-fm tag-lookup capability to the smart playlist function.

Someone suggested on the forums that album art affects the selections. That can\'t be true right?

Regards and thanks for a superb program.

S.

Just to bump this - Anyone know the algorithm used to choose new songs in a dynamic playlist

Am I right in saying that amarok only uses related artists from last.fm to bring in new tracks?

Regards to all.

Steve.

No, you can use whatever you choose in a smart playlist, like genre, or artist, or score, etc.

shinysteve wrote:

Hi.
Someone suggested on the forums that album art affects the selections. That can\'t be true right?

HaHa

That\'s a good one. It\'s amazing what people come up with.

The default action, which is random, does exactly that - it grabs a random song out of you collection and appends it to the end!

Suggestions takes a random songs from the related artist of the currently playing artist and appends it!

You can, as oggb4mp3 said, make a dynamic playlist which will grab a random song out of a specific (smart) playlist. This is handy when you want your songs to be weighted by a particular field, say score or playcount.