different approach to the playlist idea

Maybe this is an idea you want to think about.
Why not change the playlist so that it presents similar tracks with the
most similar at the beginning. Normaly the player picks the first entry of
the list, but the user can choose another track to be the next.

Maybe the next step would be to remember what has been choosen. Tracks i
played one after another might be similar, or let's say more likely i want
them to be played one after another.

Maybe one way to save this information is to say every track has a position
in space. If i play them one after another (fully) they should move nearer.
(then there is the problem of the initial position,...)

Maybe if i skip a track, it should have less value, depending on how early
i skip.

Maybe if i play a song more often it has a greater value.

Maybe a track i haven't played for a long time has a greater value.

I guess last.fm tags also seem to be a good idea. Even if i think your
similarity approach is much cooler. But it can't recommend tracks i might
like. Maybe to use both would be cool.

As you might imagine, i have done this in my own mp3player. But i am to
lazy to make it work for anybody else then me. It's my little playground.
But i think some ideas i have could be used for a much better player/plugin.

Hopefully this is not offending.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by a.gschwe...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2009 at 5:30

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