blacklist from Mirage if genre is Podcast or Audiobook

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Mirage only applies to music, thus skipping tracks where the genre is
matches a blacklist fitting such things as Podcast or Audiobook would speed
things up. These have no benefit from analysis and are often lengthy which
might make computation slow.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by gnomeu...@gmail.com on 28 Jan 2009 at 1:16

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Mirage is supposed to only analyze tracks that are listed in the music library
source. Podcasts should then be ignored, unless you also have them in your 
library.

But filtering on genre might also be a good idea.

Original comment by bertrand.lorentz@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2009 at 7:48

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I have both podcast episodes (special edition which come as separate downloads) 
and
audiobooks in the main library as there is currently no better way to organize 
them
or weave them into Banshee. Generally I manage them with smart playlists, I 
suspect a
great deal of people are in the same boat.

Original comment by gnomeu...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2009 at 9:58

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I'm thinking about adding a "Ban Song" button, which would add a song to a 
"Banned
Songs" sub-Playlist of Mirage. Songs in this Playlist would be excluded from all
future generated playlists.

You could then add just drag&drop your audio-books and podcasts to the banned 
list.

Apart from that: a spoken audio book should almost never be recommended for any 
song
(if there is enough music available) speech is very different from music, and 
mirage
detects that.

Regarding performance: We only analyze the first 4 minutes (max) of every 
track, so
large audio files do not matter.

Original comment by dominik....@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2009 at 12:30

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The quickest work is the work you do not do, Last night e.g. Mirage pegged my 
CPU for
around an hour analysing +2000 Audiobook tracks that it did not need to. As 
this will
have no effect for me, I would definitely have preferred that it did not do 
that at all.

Original comment by gnomeu...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2009 at 1:18