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Although they appear to be more dedicated to mixing your music based on the mood of a song, MoodLogic also has a huge database of user identified songs. You have to pay to use the feature, but you can download it for free and see how it would tag them before you pay. http://www.moodlogic.com/

So what your are looking for is for someone to modify the winamp plugin from http://www.moodlogic.com/ . You queue it up with your current mood, and then proceed with what you described above. If the plugin was open source I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to do.

This application by Moodlogic was filed a few days earlier, and seems to cover much of the same ground as the Microsoft patent...

Wish someone was clever enough to point out that three independent applications for the same invention in the space of a few months (and those are only the ones showing up), would indicate that the basic idea was obvious...

Regards,
-Jeremy

This is something I havent seen metioned before, Last time I checked (When I paid for my 10,000 song subscription) it was ONLY win32, but it was BRILLIANT at getting the names, id3 tags right on my assorted collection of mp3's. Named about 75% of a 20Gb collection no problemos.

try it at
http://www.moodlogic.com/

really kewl stuff

I used MoodLogic, and it was really good. Only thing is, you either have to pay for using it, or gain "points" by helping create "profiles" for music you have. But it works really, really well.

A similar program that actually works is MoodLogic.

Best $40 I've spent on software in a long time.

My technique is to let MoodLogic tear through a pile of MP3s and rename them/tweak the ID3 tags. I then let iTunes arrange them into folders.

As a bonus, you can pick a song you like and tell MoodLogic to create a mix of similar songs from your collection. I think that is what the program was originally intended for, but I use it more for renaming files and ID3 info.

• MusicBrainz
• MoodLogic
• QuickNamer
• MusicMagic Mixer
• UltraTagger
• FixTunes
• Tag&Rename

The result is that it does a damn good job of playing unique playlists of music that are thematically grouped--they "go together." It's like having a REAL DJ who knows a lot about music pick your playlist for you.

You can pick any song, artist, album, or arbitrary "style" and MoodLogic will create a playlist for you on the fly with songs that fit that selection.

I can't emphasize how much of a difference this has made to my music listening - I used to listen to whole albums or make my own limited playlists because the random shuffle was TOO random. But MoodLogic actually exposes a WHOLE lot of individual tracks I normally don't listen to. Very nifty.

They've recently released a version of their software that will siphon music to your TiVo as well, if you have the Home Media Option installed (check TiVo's website for this download). Instead of playing albums straight throguh, you can build themed playlists on the fly with your TiVo interface from another room. Brilliant.

This is where things will head, I hope.

MoodLogic can do the same sort of thing for marking tracks as having a certain "mood" (such song profiles are taken from a huge database of songs) and creating a playlist based on what type of music one wants to hear at the time. Unfortunately, not free, though you can get it to identify files if you profile some of your own songs (I think you get 25 identified songs per every five you profile yourself or something).

Smart playlists? Try The Brain also available as a Winamp Plugin

If you want the ultimate in genre music, try Moodlogic:

MoodLogic Mixes change the way you think about your MP3 collection, whether it is on your computer or on your MP3 Player device. Over the last three years, tens of thousands have contributed to MoodLogic more than a billion survey answers on how they feel about music. MoodLogic has assembled these answers and created the world's largest music database. After years of research and development creating complex computer algorithms to clean up the user-contributed data MoodLogic built an industrial-strength infrastructure to serve it back to you. Now you can experience your music in ways you never thought was possible*. Automatic music organization, intuitive MP3 mix generation, and robust ID3 tag cleanup are just a few of the highlights of MoodLogic.

Moodlogic is superb - it drives my home music collection. I ask my server to play slow electronica between the years 84 and 92 and it just does it.

Live searches? In WinAmp just press the "J" key and start typing.

>I'd sure like to see their algorithm for determining which music files are illegal.

The technology already exists to do this. If you need proof, try this:
Download the program MoodLogic and rename a bunch of your MP3 files bogus names like sfddsk.mp3 and change the ID3 tags info to blank. Install and run Moodlogic. "Add Music" in the directory you put the bogus named MP3s in and if they are not completely obscure groups and songs then Moodlogic will most likely identify them. Access to a database like this could allow a RIAA program to identify whether an MP3 belonged to a "copyrighted and therefore not legally shareable" group of songs or not. The identification process is rather quick in the case of MoodLogic. Of course, the database probably isn't very big at the moment but I'd say if the RIAA was on top of it, they'd have such a method to determine whether a shared MP3 is copyrighted or not. Whether the sharer bought the CD or not would be moot because the sharer is still sharing the MP3s to the world.

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Have you tried MoodLogic? Tell it your mood, etc., and it will pick appropriate songs from your mp3 collection.

I am surprised that MoodLogic hasn't been mentioned. It is a neat little program that connects to a database mp3 song information. Based on that information and some input of your mood and or song preference it finds other mp3's on your disk that you should like.

As others has suggested, randomly downloading mp3's from users who got what you like is a great way of building up a library of mp3, then you let MoodLogic do the searching for you.

By the way, I found this program when I was searching for a good solution to give all my mp3's the correct name (I hate downloading Moonlight sonata by Mozart), MoodLogic will organize and correct names/id3-tags too.

Does anyone know of a similar solution for Linux?

Sure, you aren't going to get every invalid version, but who wants that anyway? For clean rips, you should be able to narrow the range down a lot. No, it won't be one-to-one like a CD, but that's okay too.

For someone who's done it already, check out MoodLogic. Hooks in with winamp too.

-Bill

You compile a list of top gnutella queries (no visualization required), but that would be more of a buzz index, wouldn't tell you what people were actually downloading or listening to.

You could track (voluntarily I'd hope) users' media player actions and compile top lists. I'd guess that playlist sharing companies like Uplister have or will do this, though I haven't seen it. Companies like Kick and MoodLogic may also be positioned to do something like this.

Finally, Bitzi (disclaimer: I'm involved) has an ugly most reported/highest ranked type page, though it bears no resemblance to the real world yet due to low traffic.

I can't wait for record labels to start promoting their wares on p2p networks and helpers like Bitzi -- hopefully that'd mean they'd have at least partially accepted the value of decentralized/uncontrolled distribution.