amaroK moodbar
November 30th, 2005Since all my regular german visitors (do i really have some?
) understand english quite well, and amaroK is something that may be of interests for people incapable of german: this blog entry in english:
As i could see in my webserver logs, the amaroK screenshots of 1.4 svn version did get some attention. So i thought of making some new ones. This time with moodbar enabled. Unfortunatly there isn’t a real official website for moodbar on the net. So i will have to explain, what moodbar is about:
The moodbar is an extension, which scans every audio file, which gets into your playlist. With this scan it calculates the kind of “mood” this song represents. This is done with FFT (Fast Fourier Transformation). The “funny” thing about this is, that you don’t get one color per song, but you get the mood for small sections of the song (can’t really tell if it’s seconds, but i think it’s even smaller, maybe frames). With this you get a colored representation what the song will sound like. If you’re interested in deeper details of how the colors come into play and how all this is done you can get this pdf (/amarok/ismir-crc.pdf). I got this from Gav, one of the heads behind moodbar. He gave me his permission to put it up here. Thanks again Gav! From the pdf you can read that moodbar is the product of some kind of study how humans would use a new technology without knowing how it actually works…
But now, here are the pics:
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Playlist, at the left you can see the “mood” of some songs
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Player window with moodbar-timeline
another player window. If the pic doesnt load anymore it’s from this form thread@realotw.org unfortunatly the forum’s dead.
And now some screenshots of the new metadata dialog (id3 tag dialog):

Summary part

Tag editing part

lyrics, which can be changed and saved

statistics for this song

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