mood-based jukebox, anyone?

[gusl]

Does anyone a jukebox program that tries to play what you want to hear based on your mood?

* for creative work, I think I would like moody jazz

* for repetitive work: fast piano music to keep me up to speed

* for being happy: swing, classic rock, Grease Soundtrack, Abba

* for being totally manic: bluegrass, Celtic fiddle tunes, and such childish music

* for relaxing: Enya, some kinds of classic music (I haven't been able to narrow this down further)

* when I'm pissed off or frustrated or overwhelmed: nothing at all

I don't know where to put Béla Fleck-style groovy jazz or DAWG music.


Any recommendations for music, given a specific mood?

Winamp's random isn't good enough. Maybe I could make a playlist for each mood, and load the right playlist every time I change mood... but I'd like to do this with ~1 click.

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i amarok

[the-wesman.livejournal.com]

amarok has a very interesting randomization (and rating) system - it auto-chooses the next tune based on what you've listened to already - the bad news is that if your collection features a lot of tunes by certain artists, you may get stuck listening to them for a bit - this would work best for your average 'pop music' collection which would contain a whole shit load of groupings of a few songs per artist - for a real music collection whore it's not so good - fyi, you should really ditch winamp - try itunes - not to sound self-righteous or anything, but I've found itunes a lot easier to use when manipulating a dense music collection - it has an option to organize the files on your disk based on id3 information which means that if you're a music downloader, you can download a bit more hap-hazardly and the software will help clean it up - one drag though is that it does not currently offer any help in terms of guessing tags based on file name (obviously since it's targeted at you buying music through the built-in store - which is fortunately, disable-able (?) - itunes also offers "party" shuffle, where you have it dynamically create a playlist for you (from a source which can be the library or a playlist which is great, for example, if you want just a punk mix, or just up-temp music) and it will populate a few songs ahead in the queue (which you can see and change before it gets to it - very nice) and, optionally, plays higher-rated songs more often - one thing amarok really nails better than itunes is the rating system - with itunes, a song's play-count is increased automagically when the song ends and the ratings must be done manually - amarok automagically rates songs based on how often you play them and how far into it you play it - with itunes, if you skip a song _every_single_time, it doesn't get a bad rating, but with amarok, the software remembers and doesn't spit it back at you so soon - also, if, in itunes, you were to get right to the end of the song and then skip back to the beginning (after the music had ended, for example, but the track still had some silence) to hear it again, the playcount doesn't increase, even though you've really heard the song many times - amarok would count this too - another cool amarok thing is that it will automagically connect to amazon.com and try to download artwork for the albums - I find this out after I put 20GB worth of CDs into my goddamn ipod and loaded all the images in by hand - amarok and itunes are great - too bad they're cousins or they could make babies (outside of west virginia) and we'd have an awesome player....