Digital Music Library Categorization
To be frank, the way we categorize our digital music library is inefficient. MP3 tags are unreliable and inaccurate. This is the problem I have with my iPod. Using iPod you can create playlists based on tags (Genre, Artist name, Album name). But it’s boring. And you will fed up with your playlists and shuffle them. And it is boring as well.
Many people have been working on this so far. The most simple way overcome this is to shuffle your music, and play it in random order. But the problem is that its out of your control. You may have hear the tracks you dont like. And the problem is that when I like an artist or album, I don’t like all of its songs. The current methods does not satisfy my (and everyones) needs.
Solution:
Organizing music based on mood. Whether its slow, or fast, happy or sad. This is the way people like to organize their playlists. And you might say MoodLogic. MoodLogic does the same. Along with many other exciting features, it organizes playlists based on moods. And its a very brilliant idea.
And it can be an idea for a new OpenSource project as well. MoodLogic is the one and only solution that understands the music, and does not only rely on tags.
So why not other media jukeboxes (iTunes, WMP,…) do this? Or maybe some software that listens to music (analyzes it in fact) and recognizes its mood and adds it as a tag? Maybe its not an easy thing to do, but it would be a very popular thing.
There is such a big gap in digital music world, which no one has seriously worked on it. Lets do it and make the life easier.
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I found your post while googling for MP3 organization software. I’ve run up against the same problem… ID3 tags aren’t flexibile enough for users to really capture info. I envision something like the Categories feature in MS Outlook… a way of using non-exclusive tags however the user sees fit. For example, a single track could be tagged with these multiple tags: Live Recording, Dance Music, Texas Band. If an entire library were tagged like this, the user could auto-generate playlists across whatever category he wanted.