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There sure has.

You left out Waterfall, my spectrogram viz plugin.

Oh, so you want to use chrons , do you?

We could create a forum (web page) where independent musicians could claim to be simillar to famous artists, provide mp3s of their music, and lisseners would vote on the simillarity.

I wonder if the real gold mine will be the competitive advantage of providing better service through personalization. Some sites actually provide a service, rather than just advertising one. Some of those sites could actually work better if they adapted to the user. To some extent, all sites provide the service of information and could be enhanced somehow. Even simple things could be useful.

I wonder how soon it'll be before someone invents an intelligent filter that removes these from mailboxes as well as SPAM.

It's on my to do list. I don't think it would be hard. Text document similarity is pretty well studied.

There are more practical reasons to never buy from Sony. I have a PCG-838. When it works, it's a wonderful machine. When it doesn't, which is fairly often, my life is hell because Sony support is complete crap.

My laptop broke twice in the first six months. The second time, it took me three months and $200 to get it fixed, even though they agreed the problem was covered by the warranty. My warranty expires in three more months, and I expect that my machine will break again soon. Sony apparently expects that too, since they give one year warranties, even though three years seems to be common with other companies. Once the warranty is up, I'll be completely screwed. I know other PCG owners who have had similar problems.

If you want to buy a list of specs, it's a great deal. Sony laptops give you more for your money than other brands, unless you value having a working machine.

if you are an AI, computer interfaces, or psychology type person then this could make a cool project.

I'm working on an MSc in AI, and I'm currently hashing out details of a project proposal for exactly this sort of thing.

A major problem with Smartplay is that it doesn't generalize. When it learns something about one song, that doesn't contribute to its knowledge about other songs. That's what I want to fix. I don't expect to be able to make a program that understands all the nuances of what makes one song like another, but I think I can make something that correlates at least a little to some of people's similarity measures, and that's better than nothing.

The first task is extracting features from the audio. I have a bunch of ideas, but limited time here (where I can get help from clueful professors), and I'd like to have all the feature extractors done before the official start of my project (in April). I'm going to GPL everything I write. If anyone wants to help out, drop me a line.

none of these plug-ins will work without xmms-devel or the xmms source installed

My plugin (waterfall) includes the necessary XMMS headers in my distribution. Always beta test before a contest. :)

I wish they'd list which ones don't include source. I only have Sun Ultra 5s locally right now, so there's no point in downloading a bunch of x86 binaries.