Creating a mood-scanner, Possible? Options

[odyssey]

My foobar2000 just went from Hardcore "Scooter" to gentle "Enya"... And I thought "We live in 2008, it MUST be possible to analyze audio data for it's energy and generally adapt a simple category for it, something like "sad/romantic/happy/energy".

I know this has been discussed several times already, and I'm not looking for a bunch of posts about this being impossible, but positive thoughts about how this could be done! This will never replace the need for genres and maybe BPM etc., but it could be a great addition to existing meta-data.

In a seperate thread we can discuss the user-interface that can handle all this

[odyssey]

Amarok has a moodbar, however it does not "judge" the song. I used it once for testing, but I've got it deactivated. More info is available at http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Moodbar.

YES. It's something exactly like this I'm reffering to (I just forgot to mention it in my initial post)

almost everything is possible, but there are many things that define if it's going to happen or not:
how useful is it?
how easy is it to implement?
how well is it going to work?
and the answers to these questions don't look favorable.

Why not? It needs a userinterface of course, but it should be simple, just like my proposal above. (Maybe it could already works with "facets" for foobar2000 if this could be stored in a tag)

There are programs like Moody, but those only let you choose colors corresponding to moods and write them to tags. This would be an excellent idea, if someone could find a way to reliably implement it.

Moody is a nice concept, and it might work if we have a shared database to submit info to. For manually doing this for my 22000 track collection is just tedious. Actually I have several great ideas for a database like this, but I need to convince a developer about this first

This post has been edited by odyssey: Feb 12 2008, 13:08