The first impression of MusicMagic is SLOW, it takes an eternity to scan your music. If you have a large collection. It has been scanning mine for over 24 hours and it is still less than a quarter of the way through it.
I guess I should explain what it does, it scans your music which then helps you create playlists, by creating a fingerprint for all your songs. You select a song you like and would like similar music to. It then scans its database and trys to pick songs that it thinks are similar.
It is an excellent way of hearing music in your collection that you may not of heard in a long time or in my case never. It is far from perfect as the screenshot of the last playlist it created shows below. I selected Twisted Sister - I Wanna Rock and it created this playlist.
How the hell did it think that 2 Take That songs and Shakin Stevens were similar, oh and Merry Clayton, sadly I didn't mind listening to Merry Clayston (oh dear). I guess the question could be what am I even doing with those songs, lol. Besides for those it did pick some excellent music like Van Halen - Atomic Punk and some classic Ratt. I had never heard Talking Heads - Burning Down The House before, only the Tom Jones version a few years ago. The original is fantastic :-)There are some limitations to the free version included in Winamp. The big one being it will only generate playlists of 20 songs.
I might give MoodLogic another spin, I can remember thinking it was excellent. If it's as good as I remember I just may pay for it. There is also another similar program called MusicIP and it is free. So will test them out and see which comes out on top.
Below is another playlist created from "The Subways - Rock & Roll Queen". I have only added Artists beginning with P-Z so far to MusicMagic, will get a broader range when its all added. This looks like it did a better job, less strange tracks (Pink maybe).
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Hi Steve,
My name is Rachel and I'm part of the MusicIP team. Just wanted to let you know that the MusicMagic program you're currently working with is actually an older version of the new MusicIP Mixer. In March, we changed our name from Predixis to MusicIP. Sorry for the confusion! We intend on changing the naming scheme for the plugin in one of the next versions of Winamp. I hope you'll give the MusicIP Mixer a try; as we've gone through a few upgrades since the last plugin, you should find tha the analysis process goes much faster. We've also added tag fixing to 1.7, for any of your song files that might have wrong or missing song/artist/album information.
Email me anytime with questions or ideas for how you think the Mixer could be improved!
Link for the mixer: http://musicip.com/listener/products/application-downloads
Hope to hear from you soon!
Rachel
rachel[at]musicip[dot]com
Oops...that link above didn't show up too well, did it? ;-)
http://musicip.com/listener/products/
application-downloads
One other thing you might want to know - the next version of the plugin should open up the playlist limits so they are in sync with the standalone app (up to 75 tracks in a single playlist). Plus the remix controls should show up as well (the ability to customize mixes to be more/less like certain tracks in the list).
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