From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-04-20T00:56:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] iTunesTagger.rb 0.1 - a simple script to make use of the grouping field in iTunes

Belorion wrote:

> This sounds very neat!  Do I understand correctly that you can use
> this tagger and the changes will be reflected next time you open
> iTunes?
> 
> I was thinking of Ruby + music the other day when we had posts
> announcing new classifiers (such as
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/classifier/ and
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/bishop/).  I wonder if iTunesTagger + a
> Ruby Classifier might be able to do automatic assignment of certain
> tags.  Maybe it would be possible to say "classify" the tempo of a
> song as either being fast/slow to be able to distinguish between high
> energy and slow music.  Or tag anything with a certain level of bass,
> etc.

Hm, this is interesting. So basically you would need a way of converting 
song characteristics into English words (perhaps the algorithms could 
accept a stream of symbols as well?) which a Bayesian algorithm could 
then work on. I wonder if there is any more complex algorithms for that.
(Tempo is a nice initial classification aspect, but I think that tempo 
alone is not all that makes pieces of music similar or different.)

Interesting stuff.