Search-by-Distance-SMP

• genreStyleFilter: Soundtrack,Radio Program

• WEIGHT: -> Score
      Uses genreWeight, styleWeight, moodWeight, keyWeight, dateWeight, dateRange, bpmWeight, bpmRange, composerWeight, customStrWeight, customNumWeight + scoreFilter
      Calculates similarity by scoring according to the tags. Similarity is calculated by simple string matching ('Rock' != 'Soul') and ranges for numeric tags. This means some coherence in tags is needed to make it work, and the script only works with high level data (tags) which should havebeen added to files previously using manual or automatic methods (like MusicBrainz Picard, see note at bottom).
• GRAPH: -> Score + Distance
      Same than WEIGHT + max_graph_distance
      Apart from scoring, it compares the genre/styles tags set to the ones of the reference track using a graph and calculating their min. mean distance. Minimum mean distance is done considering (A,B,D) set matches (A,B,C) at 2 points (0 distance). So we only need to find the nearest pointfrom (A,B,D) to (C) which will be x. Then we calculate the mean distance dividing by the number of points of the reference track : (0 + 0 + x)/3.
      Imagine Google maps for genre/styles, and looking for the distance from Rock to Jazz for ex. 'max_graph_distance' sets the max distance allowed, so every track with genre/styles farther than that value will not be included in the final pool. Note this is totally different to simple string matching, so 'Acid Rock' may be similar to 'Psychedelic Rock' even if they are totally different tag values (or strings).
      This method is pretty computational intensive, we are drawing a map with all known genres/styles and calculating the shortest path between the reference track and all the tracks from the library (after some basic filtering). Somewhere between 2 and 5 secs for 40 K tracks. For a complete description of how it works check: 'helpers/music_graph_descriptors_xxx.js'. And to see the map rendered in your browser like a map check: 'Draw Graph.html'
• DYNGENRE: -> Score
      Same than WEIGHT + dyngenreWeight
      Uses a simplification of the GRAPH method. Let's say we assign a number to every "big" cluster of points on the music graph, then we can simply put any genre/style point into any of those clusters and give them a value. So 'Rock' is linked to 3, the same than 'Roots Rock' or 'Rock & Roll'.It's a more complex method than WEIGHT, but less than GRAPH, which allows cross-linking between different genres breaking from string matching.
      For a complete description of how it works check: 'helpers/dyngenre_map_xxx.js'

• The pool can be filtered with a flobal forced query (for example to always exclude live tracks).
• The final selection can be choosen from the pool following 4 methods.
• By score.
• By probability.
• Randomly.
• Using harmonic mixing.
• The final selection (aka playlist) can be sorted following 3 methods:
• Randomly.
• Following the order the tracks were chosen from the pool.
• Scattering instrumentals: Intercalate instrumental tracks breaking clusters if possible.
• Recursive playlist creation (where output tracks are used as new references, and so on).
• Influences and anti-influences playlists.
• There are some custom buttons which may be set according to user preferences, even its own name: 'buttons_search_bydistance_customizable.js'.

Even though I haven't quite figured this tool out yet, it reminds me of the following helpful tools:

https://www.music-map.com/

https://musicmachinery.com/2009/05/31/building-a-music-map/

  

I find pretty much all ActiveX objects work fine wine WINE with the exception of trying to use WshShell.RegRead to get the DPI from the registry. As I mentioned the other day, the main issue you'll always have is lack of internet connectivity to certain websites that require certain levels of TLS support.

Offline scripts should be fine.

WilB's library tree works without mods
Br3tts playlist and Smooth Browser work without mods
All the scripts in the SMP complete folder work with change to one line of code on js\helpers.js line 629. Replace this

const DPI = WshShell.RegRead('HKCU\\Control Panel\\Desktop\\WindowMetrics\\AppliedDPI');

with

const DPI = 96;

Copy/paste works for me. I guess that's because I'm using a 32bit prefix with all this nonsense installed via winetricks...

sh winetricks gdiplus_winxp wsh57 fontsmooth=rgb msscript ie8

Quote from: snotlicker on 2021-05-15 12:07:41

Copy/paste works for me. I guess that's because I'm using a 32bit prefix with all this nonsense installed via winetricks...

sh winetricks gdiplus_winxp wsh57 fontsmooth=rgb msscript ie8

Then maybe you can help me.

In the github page there is a lot of projects. I download all and unzip in the folder xxx the instruction said.

A lot of files asked overwrite so i do overwrite

Now i'm start to doubt. There's a lot of scripts.I thought that the ones i must to use are the ones in buttons (mostly for the pictures).

But when I try to load it in a panel the say something about g theme.

Whit the map I can get a little futher, the panel load and i can see a map (but fuzzy with vertical lines of yellow) and when I select an artist with the locale last.fm tag a point is shown in the map that let me make a playlist with the same country, etc.

But when I try the integration with Biography it said that is not in the path.

Any advice?

Quote from: rolf1955 on 2021-05-13 21:07:05

Even though I haven't quite figured this tool out yet, it reminds me of the following helpful tools:

They are somewhat similar ideas.
Although they are based on artist similarity (this one is about genre/styles similarities), so they are limited to an specific corpus of music -artists- (mainly focused on western music). Also to be up to date, they require an infinite amount of constant work. New artists appear each day.  On the other hand, genres and styles are more or less static within a given period.

Quote from: regor on 2021-05-14 17:27:28

Quote from: rolf1955 on 2021-05-13 21:07:05

Even though I haven't quite figured this tool out yet, it reminds me of the following helpful tools:

They are somewhat similar ideas.
Although they are based on artist similarity (this one is about genre/styles similarities), so they are limited to an specific corpus of music -artists- (mainly focused on western music). Also to be up to date, they require an infinite amount of constant work. New artists appear each day.  On the other hand, genres and styles are more or less static within a given period.

Yes good. Thank you for the detailed explanations. The map of relationships between performers that I gave as an example would work offline if it drew on its own library. It could show existing performers on the one hand, and those that are not yet available in the library. But admittedly this idea is a bit banal. :-)

Artist Name : Abdel Ali Slimani
Track Title : Mraya
Album Title : Mraya
Year : 1996
Genre : desi1; afro1
Composer : 
Performer : 
Album Artist : Abdel Ali Slimani; Jah Wobble
Track Number : 04
Total Tracks : 09
Disc Number : 
Total Discs : 
Comment : 
<ALBUM GENRE ALLMUSIC> : International; Worldbeat; African Traditions; North African
<ALBUM GENRE LAST.FM> : Arabic; Rai; Love; Africa; Tunisia
<ALBUM MOOD ALLMUSIC> : Earthy; Nocturnal; Passionate; Rousing
<ALBUM THEME ALLMUSIC> : Hanging Out; Late Night
<BPM> : 186
<DISCOGS_ARTIST_PROFILE> : Rai singer Abdel Ali Slimani was raised in El Anasser, Algeria, where as a teen he learned guitar and performed as a drummer at soccer matches. Finding little opportunity for musicians in his native land, he went to Paris in 1982; after a subsequent move to London, Slimani found work as a club DJ before signing on as a vocalist and percussionist with ex-PiL bassist Jah Wobble's Anglo-Arabic unit Invaders of the Heart.
<DISCOGS_CATALOG> : CDRW55; CDRW 55; 7243 8 40780 2 7
<DISCOGS_COUNTRY> : UK & Europe
<DISCOGS_CREDIT_VOCALS> : Sinéad O'Connor; Abdel Ali Slimani
<DISCOGS_RELEASE_CREDITS> : Bass - Jah Wobble; Drums, Programmed By, Backing Vocals - John Reynolds; Electric Guitar, Guitar [Spanish Guitar], Oud ['ud], Backing Vocals - Justin Adams; Executive-Producer - Jah Wobble; Liner Notes [French Translation] - Rosa Santos; Management - David Jaymes Associates Ltd.; Mixed By - Mark Ferda; Photography By - John Sleeman; Producer - John Reynolds; Producer [Assistant] - Justin Adams; Vocals, Goblet Drum [Darbuka], Bendir, Tar (drum), Percussion [Kraksh] - Abdel Ali Slimani; Written-By - Slimani, Wobble, Reynolds, Adams
<DISCOGS_RELEASE_ID> : 327152
<DISCOGS_RELEASE_NOTES> : Recorded at John Reynolds Studios (...)
<DISCOGS_TRACK_CREDITS> : Cello - Caroline Dale; Goblet Drum [Darbuka] - Nacer Khenniche; Vocals - Sinéad O'Connor
<KEY> : Am
<PUBLISHER> : Real World Records
<RATING> : 4
<UNSYNCED LYRICS> : Abdel Ali Slimani - Mraya (...)

I do have other tracks with those same tags. If nothing else, I would expect tracks from the same album to appear?

Thanks for the feedback and support. BTW there is a _README and INSTALLATION.txt (no info) and a README.md ?? which has more info but finding or applying it isn't particularly intuitive.

I wasn't expecting this tool to be some sort of liguial AI to relate tags by meaning. Obviously XD

I did make the changes and there are results for all 4 buttons now, however the results are also confounding.

-Nearest Tracks returns interesting lists which has the most overlap in the style tag.
-Similar Tracks returns a very random list with very little overlap in any of the 5 fields.
-Similar Genres returns a list with almost no connection or repetition of the seed genres and no other obvious patterns.
-Similar Mood returns a list roughly split in matches of mood and theme (<50% each), and very little similarity of genres.
Is there a description of the actual functionality of those 4 buttons somewhere?

I'm hoping to play with the weightings more as KEY and BPM are also important to me, but documentation seems to favor theory over practice. What exactly is the scale being calculated of all the variables "weight" (in panel prefs)? based on 100%?

-Nearest Tracks returns interesting lists which has the most overlap in the style tag.
-Similar Tracks returns a very random list with very little overlap in any of the 5 fields.
-Similar Genres returns a list with almost no connection or repetition of the seed genres and no other obvious patterns.
-Similar Mood returns a list roughly split in matches of mood and theme (<50% each), and very little similarity of genres.
Is there a description of the actual functionality of those 4 buttons somewhere?

I'm hoping to play with the weightings more as KEY and BPM are also important to me, but documentation seems to favor theory over practice. What exactly is the scale being calculated of all the variables "weight" (in panel prefs)? based on 100%?

-Similar Tracks returns a very random list with very little overlap in any of the 5 fields.

-Similar Genres returns a list with almost no connection or repetition of the seed genres and no other obvious patterns.

-Similar Mood returns a list roughly split in matches of mood and theme (<50% each), and very little similarity of genres.

Is there a description of the actual functionality of those 4 buttons somewhere?

I'm hoping to play with the weightings more as KEY and BPM are also important to me, but documentation seems to favor theory over practice. What exactly is the scale being calculated of all the variables "weight" (in panel prefs)? based on 100%?

And try the playlist-Tools thing, since that probably suits your most immediate needs.

Quote from: regor on 2021-06-02 17:45:05

And try the playlist-Tools thing, since that probably suits your most immediate needs.

The 100% tip was the key - really need a weighted verbosity filter.

Thanks, will do, but playlist_manager.js is currently missing?

https://github.com/regorxxx/Playlist-Tools-SMP