NIPL

NIPL: Nemo's Idea for a Play List

This playlist is based on several assumptions about how humans listen to music and organise and generate their own playlists. Please read the /Assumptions page before continuing.

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So the NIPL system, broadly, is:

• Users rate not just the song, but the song->nextsong pair. (eg, Rammstein and Enya might both get high scores on their own, but Enya->Rammstein is likely to generate a low score)
• With advanced use of MarkovChains and other sorting cleverness, playlists are generated based on song-pair scores, not just song scores)

Some component parts of NIPL include:

• Genres (ideas for a comprehensive genre classification system)
• NUDI (Nemo's Ultimate Disc Identifier)
• WeightedRandom (The ability to choose the next song in a "random" but usefull manner)

IRC logs

There are a number of IRC logs (well 4) from August and September 2001. In these, NIPL ideas are brainstormed and thrashed out in some detail. To really get a good idea of NIPL, it's worth reading through those. Especially as it's quite likely we've covered alot of potential questions ourselves already.

Logs can be found at http://www.cheeky.house.cx/~nemo/extras/playlist/

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There is now an /Implementation page

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STOP PRESS - 30.May.2002

There has been an implementation of NIPL for Windows! Check out Project Playlist...

• http://svs.goldweb.com.au/index.php?page=projectplay

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Links:

• Synapse - A similar idea?
• GJay - Other ways of generating a good next-song method.

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NIPL is in accordance with NINS