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General Discussion / Re: about 9% of my songs are recognized but won't play

« on: April 30, 2011, 04:02:54 PM »

I can confirm that these 2 songs do not work, but I can't yet say what the others are because I've forgotten which others had the same problem (but I know there are a decent amount).

That 9% figure I whipped out wasn't completely pulled out of nowhere--I noticed that when I generate the iTunes xml, only 9811 songs are detected/loaded, but my iTunes library has 11,183 songs in it.


Also, I've noticed that when I dictate "play song ell oh vee ee" it correctly plays the Nat King Cole song that is titled: L-O-V-E

(not sure if that helps you at all, but it's got odd punctuation and still works)

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General Discussion / Re: about 9% of my songs are recognized but won't play

« on: April 30, 2011, 12:04:45 PM »

I'm the netbook iTunes guy

You may have already solved the problem even though I'm not at that computer right now....

because I remember two songs that didn't work were "Picture Me Rollin'" and "Talkin' About a Revolution"

both of which have apostrophes that end a word.  Is that our problem?

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General Discussion / about 9% of my songs are recognized but won't play

« on: April 30, 2011, 10:31:21 AM »

Hey there,

I noticed that for some of my songs, i'll request "play song ______ ______" and it will properly capture my command, but then it just never plays the song.

Then I'll try to request a different song and it'll work fine--then I'll try to request that same problem song and the same thing happens.

This was happening before this latest version, so it has nothing to do with the character limit or anything like that.

Any ideas?

I probably should give you some sort of log of this happening...

Thanks!

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General Discussion / Re: Prefix mode/required confidence

« on: April 30, 2011, 10:28:17 AM »

In case you hadn't noticed, the new prefix feature has been included in this version:

http://voxcommando.com/forum/index.php?topic=474.0

Yes, I did see this--thank you, cool stuff!

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General Discussion / Re: artist/song payloads and iTunes Genius

« on: April 24, 2011, 01:58:42 PM »

No worries man thanks for the efforts thus far--get back to your Easter stuff!

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General Discussion / Re: artist/song payloads and iTunes Genius

« on: April 23, 2011, 10:44:41 AM »

1.  Is there a program that allows you to tag all of your mp3s (I have 11,000) in a way that the title includes the artist name?

I say this because I have a really large library, so there are lots of situations where there are multiple versions of a song, and I'd like to get more specific (and I want to be able to do this in the car without looking at the screen, so being able to say "Option 1" might not help me out).

I retagged a few files to try it out and it handled this well--just need to figure out how to do it in batches.

James,

Have you been able to think of a way to avoid having to do this? 

Here's an example I ran into the other day (it happens pretty frequently in a large library though):

I asked it to 'play song Billie Jean' and it brought back 2 songs:  Seals and Crofts - Ruby Jean and Billie Lee and Michael Jackson - Billie Jean.

Another example would be if I wanted to listen to Ants Marching by DMB -- well, I have about 18 versions of the song because there are so many live albums.  So in a perfect world, I'd want to be able to command it to play Ants Marching Live at Luther College.

The answer may just be that I need to retag those mp3s that will cause those bumps in the road...

Thoughts?

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General Discussion / Re: Prefix mode/required confidence

« on: April 16, 2011, 01:27:03 PM »

Sweet man--looking forward to it, thanks!

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General Discussion / Re: Prefix mode/required confidence

« on: April 16, 2011, 11:05:24 AM »

Yeah, I figured.  That would be pretty darn impressive.  But do you think there's a chance to tighten it up a bit?

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General Discussion / Re: Prefix mode/required confidence

« on: April 16, 2011, 10:43:40 AM »

But is it the case that you want to require the prefix itself to have a certain confidence, or that when you are in standby, any command triggered using the prefix requires a higher overall confidence?

Both / Either may make sense, but I'm just wondering what you were thinking.

I want the prefix itself to have a certain confidence.

For example, if my prefix is "Gladys," I want VC only activate when it KNOWS I'm saying "Gladys," so I'd want to be able to set the required confidence to something like 95% for that word only.

This way, if I was saying something like "glad its..." or "Kravitz" or "mechanics" it doesn't accidentally trigger my prefix.

Maybe there's a good prefix that's not annoying to say over and over and hardly ever gets tripped up, but I haven't found it yet!

Thanks.

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General Discussion / Re: artist/song payloads and iTunes Genius

« on: April 15, 2011, 08:24:13 PM »

download the attached xml file.  Open your command tree editor and drag the file on to the tree on the left to import it.

click "save all and close" and then restart VoxCommando.

The phrase used to trigger the command is "Create genius playlist" but you can change it to whatever you want.

Let me know if it works.

James,

Could you teach me how to make the "create genius playlist" function automatically trigger following a "play song _______" command?

I know Genius isn't the most accurate thing in the world, but I'm lazy kinda like picking a random song and then letting Genius have a go at it

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General Discussion / Prefix mode/required confidence

« on: April 15, 2011, 08:21:52 PM »

Is it possible to set the required confidence for the prefix only to something higher, like 95%?

I'm having a hard time coming up with a prefix that doesn't trip every once in awhile to lyrics or people talking/singing (it's not that bad--maybe like 10% of the time).  I've tried "eye tunes" "computer" and "Gladys."

I'd like to keep the confidence threshold at 80% for everything else though, as that's working well.

Possible?  Thanks!

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General Discussion / Re: artist/song payloads and iTunes Genius

« on: April 10, 2011, 01:05:07 PM »

download the attached xml file.  Open your command tree editor and drag the file on to the tree on the left to import it.

click "save all and close" and then restart VoxCommando.

The phrase used to trigger the command is "Create genius playlist" but you can change it to whatever you want.

Let me know if it works.

thank you very much for doing this.  your xml functions as it should, although the genius button in the lower right that it wants to click is greyed out unless you highlight the song you want to use first.  but the little genius symbol in the "now playing" area near the top works just fine. 

so i just changed your coordinates and it works like a champ.  thanks man.

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General Discussion / Re: artist/song payloads and iTunes Genius

« on: April 08, 2011, 07:48:05 PM »

Oh duhh...good ole prefix mode. Thanks.

Screenshot attached.

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General Discussion / Re: artist/song payloads and iTunes Genius

« on: April 08, 2011, 07:34:19 PM »

I may be asking a question that's already been posted here....but since I have your attention 

is there a way I can make it go into standby immediately following any command? (other than "listen")

I thought the little checkbox next to the green button would take care of this, but it seems to only work once.

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General Discussion / Re: artist/song payloads and iTunes Genius

« on: April 08, 2011, 07:32:03 PM »

I'm working on both, I'll get back to you within the next 24-48 hours.

- Are you using the latest version available on the forum? (0.884)

- What resolution is the monitor that you are running itunes on? ( i.e. 1920x1080, 1280,720, 1024x768 etc.)

You da man!

Yes, I am using the latest version--so far so good!

I am using a netbook, so my resolution is 1024x600--hope that still works!

Thanks dude.