Smart Music - 04OCT09

ThunderStick · 07-12-2009, 10:48 PM

Smart Music will scroll the Current Track across your screen from Bottom to Top.
It also has the ability to automatically change your playlist according to the genre of music of the last song that was let play completely through.

I created this because I was tired of listening to my music and finding a song I liked them it would shuffle to a song completely out of genre. This solved that problem.

REQUIRES Winamp
NEWEST RELEASE - 04OCT09

Will work with or with out RR...

---REQUIREMENTS---
- Internet connection for initial installation or download then install Active Winamp

---FEATURE LIST (CURRENT)---
-Scrolls Album Art if found along with Artist and Song Name from bottom right corner to top cener
-Scrolling Font changeable (Color and Size)
-Option to Auto Change playlist acording to genre (Requires Specific Directory Structure)
-Genre Playslit Loader
-Change genre playlist loading buttons dynamically according to how many times that genre was played
-Uses embedded Cover Art if available

---Feature List (FUTURE)---
-Embedded Lyrics displayed as a pop up or RR iList
-RATINGS tagged to MP3 (Will tag an MP3 and will provide RR Label and Indicator)
-Previous Artist Played (LABEL)
-Song Played Count (LABEL)
-Genre Played Count (LABEL)
-Favorites Playlist according to Song Played Count
-Auto Minimize at startup as option
-List favorite artist, songs and genres in an info box
-Favorite Artist buttons
-Add comments to MP3 tag to identify it as explicit, kids... what ever. Then you can select to avoid songs with those tags.

lostreception · 07-12-2009, 11:58 PM

pandora last.fm and musicovery come to mind but they would only work if u had a massive database and tagged each song with its attibutes (deep house, east coast rap, explicit lyrics, repetitive synths etc) but that would be hella cool

ThunderStick · 07-13-2009, 09:54 AM

Ive allready got something started, but it requires that you have you directories organized by genre.

I know if you read the MP3 tags you come up with thousands of genres (in my collection), so I decided to do it this way to make things simple. I keep my genre folders down to about 5-6 categories. Country, Rock, Easy Rock, Rap and Pop, And Other.

Instead of loading a playlist it is going to play a song from a playlist allready created. It's not going to load it to RR or Winamp (just so I can keep the playlist that is allready loaded, loaded)
I should have something working by the weekend.

soundman98 · 07-14-2009, 03:08 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by ThunderStick

Ive allready got something started, but it requires that you have you directories organized by genre.

I know if you read the MP3 tags you come up with thousands of genres (in my collection), so I decided to do it this way to make things simple. I keep my genre folders down to about 5-6 categories. Country, Rock, Easy Rock, Rap and Pop, And Other.

this is exactly how my music is arranged, one of my concerns was all the diff. genres- and how you would eventually be stuck on the same song--beause it was the only one listed as indy/country...

i would deffinatly be interested in a plugin like this.

Blue ZX3 · 07-14-2009, 06:26 PM

This would be one thing that would/could/should be part of RRMedia or at least work side-by-side with it as it has all that data... and the next RRMedia release sorta has half of this already integreated...

ie...ActiveRRMedia....

LMK if there's any needed/wanted interfacing needed.

I don't know how i missed this thread the other day...

PaulF · 07-14-2009, 09:01 PM

I'm working on something similar but a little more in depth for my own front end. Maybe if I share my idea you'll like it and others can benefit from it besides me.

I feel like genre doesn't let you really drill down enough and if I'm listening to Adult Alternative... that is a pretty wide range. It could play Intuition by Jewel and then Yellow by Coldplay. Clearly those songs reflect very different listening moods.

So what I'm doing, is tedious initially but then plays off. When I add a song to my library, it basically asks me to "tag" a song with information which gets stored in a database. So if I was tagging "Shake Me Like a Monkey" by DMB, I would tag it as happy, fun, alternative, fast. If I was tagging "Don't Trust Me" by 3OH!3, I would tag it as rap, swears, fun. If I was tagging "A Milli" by Lil Wayne, I would tag it as rap, ghetto, swears.

That way if it's friday and I'm on my way to a party I could just say play fun.
If I was in the car with my grandmother though I could say play anything that doesn't swear.
If I'm feeling like rap but don't want ghetto I can do play rap that is not ghetto.

This way I can make little rules that fit how I'm feeling and play music that I really want to hear so I don't have to mess with shuffle much.

ThunderStick · 07-14-2009, 09:21 PM

[QUOTE=Blue ZX3;1328427]
LMK if there's any needed/wanted interfacing needed.
QUOTE]

Is there away using RR commands to build a playlist from a directory and include all subdirectories.
Or if you have an easy way to do this in AutoIT this would be great too.

PHP Code:


  
   
$ARTISTLIST = _FileListToArray($MUSICPATH & $GenreList[$GENRELISTNUMBER], "*", 2)

    Do

        $ARTISTLISTNUMBER = $ARTISTLISTNUMBER + 1

        $SONGLIST = _FileListToArray($MUSICPATH & $GenreList[$GENRELISTNUMBER] & "\" & $ARTISTLIST[$ARTISTLISTNUMBER], "*.mp3", 1)

        $ALBUMLIST = _FileListToArray($MUSICPATH & $GenreList[$GENRELISTNUMBER] & "" & $ARTISTLIST[$ARTISTLISTNUMBER], "*", 2)

        $GENREPLAYLIST = FileOpen($MUSICPATH & $GenreList[$GENRELISTNUMBER] & ".PLS", 2) ;Will overwrite existing playlist

        do

            $songcounter = $songcounter + 1

        FileWrite($GENREPLAYLIST,$MUSICPATH & $GenreList[$GENRELISTNUMBER] & "" & $ARTISTLIST[$ARTISTLISTNUMBER] & "" & $SONGLIST[$songcounter])

        until  $songcounter = $SONGLIST[0]

    Until $GENRELISTNUMBER = $ARTISTLIST[0]

This is my current code that will build a playlist but only goes as far as searching the artist folder. IF there are subfolders past the artist folder currently it will not include them.
I know I can make it work, but I also know there must be an easier way.

Blue ZX3 · 07-15-2009, 03:15 AM

Quote:

Is there away using RR commands to build a playlist from a directory and include all subdirectories.

Aside from using the "select" cmd in the Audio Browser screen? Which does do this to any top folder, no.

Quote:

Or if you have an easy way to do this in AutoIT this would be great too.

I do/did and was used in the orig RRMedia builder(AI). I will do two things here, one post up some AI code for your request. Two, add a cmd in RRExtended that will also allow to perform such function w/o needing another AI script to perform it..

ThunderStick · 07-15-2009, 10:02 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Blue ZX3

I do/did and was used in the orig RRMedia builder(AI). I will do two things here, one post up some AI code for your request. Two, add a cmd in RRExtended that will also allow to perform such function w/o needing another AI script to perform it..

Thanks a lot, this code helped out a lot. and was much faster than what I had allready made.

ThunderStick · 07-16-2009, 11:00 AM

READY, SET, GO

FIRST RELEASE see first post...

Blue ZX3 · 07-16-2009, 07:49 PM

After look'n at your directions...I think that the only people that would really use this are e gonna be the ones that already have their music structured that way already (ie like sonic) as it would be too much to reorganize their whole collection for one feature. If (big if i know...) people had all their tags filled out correctly then the folder structure wouldn't matter and would make it more widely adaptable to everyone.

Not saying this is bad, is just my opinion...

ThunderStick · 07-16-2009, 08:57 PM

Totally agree with you.. This is just the begginning..
Changing genre tags I figured is much harder. I have an auto tagger but it tagged my songs with over 50 genres. I only have a collection of around 1600 songs so 50 genres is quite ridiculous.
Covermess is operating the same way so I figure that you can get to features with one structure change. Covermess is a pretty cool feature and I use this as well. So the directory changes were actually a need.