Audioscrobbler matching tolerance (1 Viewer)

[dezed]

Here's my log with only the relevant stuff. I've attached the full one.


2007-11-14 14:50:20.881544 [Debug][MPMain]: AudioscrobblerBase: Attempting Announce handshake
2007-11-14 14:50:20.882520 [Debug][MPMain]: AudioscrobblerBase: Next handshake due at 11/14/2007 3:50:11 PM
2007-11-14 14:50:20.884473 [Info.][MPMain]: Audioscrobbler plugin: starting song length timer with an interval of 114 seconds
2007-11-14 14:50:20.894238 [Info.][11]: AudioscrobblerBase: Announcing current track: a=Radiohead&t=No+Surprises&b=Ok+Computer&l=229&n=10&m=
2007-11-14 14:50:21.143246 [Debug][11]: AudioscrobblerBase: Waiting for response
2007-11-14 14:50:22.762283 [Debug][11]: AudioscrobblerBase: Response received - status: OK
2007-11-14 14:50:22.763259 [Info.][11]: AudioscrobblerBase: Action successfully completed.
2007-11-14 14:50:30.932658 [Info.][MPMain]: ThreadPool.Init()
2007-11-14 14:50:33.619010 [Debug][PoolThread14]: AudioscrobblerUtils: TryFilterBelowMinimumMatch removed 0 songs which were not exact enough
2007-11-14 14:50:33.620963 [Debug][PoolThread14]: GUIMusicPlaylist: OnScrobbleLookupsCompleted - processing 100 results
2007-11-14 14:50:33.882665 [Debug][PoolThread14]: ThreadPool.ProcessQueue() : total items processed: 1
2007-11-14 14:50:51.105195 [Info.][MPMain]: Audioscrobbler plugin: track paused

So, it does not eliminate any of the artists it receives from last.fm, which is good. I guess because, with a 100% randomness rating, the minimum match has to be 10, and the 100th similar artist on last.fm has a match of 39.

But I'm guessing there's a problem with how the plugin selects from the 100 artists after that. At this point, shouldn't it be a completely random selection from those 100 artists? I always get songs from Coldplay,Muse,Beck, and the White Stripes in that order with a starting song from Radiohead, even though I have Blur,Oasis,REM, and Franz Ferdinand in my library. These artists are on the similar list with a match > 10. I'm sure if I asked Audioscrobbler to try to get 10 songs, i'd then get songs from those artists, but it'll always select the highest matches available first. Well actually, the maximum it can get is 6 songs, so yeah, with 6 songs, I get songs from Weezer and Franz Ferdinand, who are the next two top artists that I have in my library.

 

[rtv]

please check your MediaPortal.xml for this entry in the audioscrobbler section:
<entry name="usesimilarrandom">yes</entry>

This will make sure the list of artists is shuffled before MP tries to lookup songs by them.


In addition I've tweaked some values so it should be more likely to get enough random results.

 

[dezed]

Thanks, that's helped a lot. I'm getting good results now for most of my different types of music.

BTW, i've found a bug in the new release, with respect to album thumbs. A lot of them don't show up if you recreate your database/thumbnails from scratch. All of the thumbnails appear in the thumbs/albums directory, but not of all them show up in the albums view of MP. I did this because I wanted a clean install of MP for the release. I ended up reverting to a previous revision of Mediaportal (16524) through SVN and compiling it, and then recreating the database/thumbs, then upgrading to the final release. Sorry I can't give a more detailed explanation, I didn't save the log - I remember not seeing any errors in it though. Just a heads up.