tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:/discussions/suggestions/6164-adding-freshness-to-matchlists-when-updatingbeaTunes: Discussion 2020-04-21T12:47:13Ztag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/482368882020-04-21T12:47:09Z2020-04-21T12:47:09ZAdding "freshness" to matchlists when updating<div><p>Sorry for the late reply, but I knew I was not <em>really</em> going to address this quickly.</p>
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<p>"give new tracks a little priority but not to the extent of overriding all other criteria"</p>
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<p>That is indeed an interesting criterion and I made an entry in my todo list to explore this further. Unfortunately, there won't be a quick turnaround on this one.</p>
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<p>Sometimes a matchlist will get "artist bombed" (especially by the Beatles, it seems), but I'm guessing increasing the priority to the "Different Artist" and/or "Different Album" will help with that.</p>
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<p>Not necessarily, because the rules are only applied in reference to the seed songs. This means, that if The Beatles match your seed songs very well, you'll get a lot of The Beatles and neither Different Artist not Similar Artist will help.</p>
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<p>(Speaking of, how are the "Different Artist" and "similar artist" rules reconciled?)</p>
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<p>That is a great question. The <em>Different</em> rules really just enforce <em>lexical similarity</em>. I.e., if my seed song is by The Beatles, the rule makes sure that tracks by other artists are ranked higher (if all other criteria are the same).</p>
<p>The Similar Artist rule on the other hand "knows" how artists relate to each other. It uses <em>semantic similarity</em>. It knows that The Beatles and Nirvana are not similar, while Soundgarden and Nirvana are. This rule is a lot smarter than any of the <em>Different</em> rules. However, it has the drawback that its knowledge base cannot cover very new artists. So for brand-new recordings by emerging artists, the Similar Artists rule may be useless.</p>
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<p>And as a quasi-nonsequeter, how are criteria like "mood" or "tags" used if a song don't have anything for "mood" or "tags." Since those rely on online resources, not every song will return a "mood" or "tags."</p>
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<p>Having no mood or tag means that the song in question is judged just like a song that has a non-matching mood or tag.</p></div>hendrik