Hi!
While listening to some of my playlists, I thought that sometimes the order between songs is not really fluent.
For exemple, if within a “Hits” playlist there are songs that are more like songs to dance and sudddently the next songs is very slow, then again a song more to dance, it doesn’t feel like any DJ is in the room.
So I thought that maybe, we could call a private DJ to organise songs from within our playlist
The idea would be to use the Sonic Adventure feature to organise the songs.
So, let say I choose 2 songs from my “Hits” playlist, DJ Private would choose 3 songs from within this playlist to make a nice transition between the 2 selected songs. Then, I will continue with a 3rd and a 4th song and DJ Private will continue to build the adventure to have a great road between songs and mood that i would like to follow.
What could be fantastic with it, is to see dynamically the songs appearing in the playlist, like when we create a Sonic Adventure!
I believe you’re in luck. There is a feature like that already present (but not while you make the playlist).
There’s a Guest DJ feature that makes minor modifications to your currently playing playlist. One of the DJs does just that - little sonic adventures. I played my auto generated “Fresh” playlist to illustrate… See below.
DJ Stretch inserts a short sonic adventure between each pair of tracks
In this screenshot I highlihgted DJ Stretch who inserts a short sonic adventure between each track already in the playlist. The next two do something similar. DJ Gemini inserts one sonically similar song after each track and DJ freeze keeps the mood going as long as possible.
The short Sonic Adventure inserted by DJ Stretch between Citizen Cope: If There's Love and Dido's "Day Before We Went to War"
If I understood your request correctly then this should solve it. You don’t have the oddly satisfying feeling of watching the adventure get created the same way as if you had gone straight for a Sonic adventure but you can see which songs are already in your playlist and which ones the Guest DJ cued up.
I use this feature all the time and I’m sure you’ll love it. Seeing PlexAmp for the first time and reading the blog post about Sonic Analysis is what got me to get my Plex Pass. It makes me wonder how I used to listen to my music before it.
Yes, this DJ Stretch is fantastic, i use it a lot too.
But the idea is to keep the songs from within the choosen playlist to be played, not some other similar songs from the librairie
It’s about a DJ that will organising the playlists with the songs available inside the playlists
I would love to play a playlist in the most sonically smooth way. It would be particularly neat for the generated “Fresh” and “Loved” playlists and others that populates automatically.
How expensive are we talking? Sonic analysis is already done. It very quick to build a sonic adventure from track A to B to C, why would it be that much harder to to the same within a pre-existing playlist? I’d be fine with a “build a sonic adventure of this playlist” button that needs a couple of seconds to initialize.
Also gets worse as the size of the playlist grows. Essentially you’ll have to look at the first one and find out it’s nearest sonic counterpart in the rest of the playlist. Now find that one’s nearest sonic counterpart in the rest of the playlist. Now find that one’s nearest sonic counterpart in the rest of the playlist. Now find that one’s sonic… rinse… repeat.
And perhaps the best sonic counterpart for the second last entry could have been the one you started with so the end will be a more jarring than desired. To get the best possible sonic playlist out of this, it might need to try different combinations to so that not one transition could be the best possible from each song, but on average it has to find the most optimal transitions across the board.
Well, it doesn’t have to find the single one most optimal path. It could just find a slightly decent path, so that my highly rated classical isn’t immediately followed by a dubstep track, then a new age track. Like, just avoid putting tracks with less than 60% match after each-other or something.
Yes, the idea is limited by the number of tracks from the playlists, so it won’t be the same as a sonic adenture with all the songs available in a librairie.
The Private DJ Adventure will make the best of what he got from the tracks’ plalysts.
