[quintz]

Hi Kodi Forum,

after a good while of reading, I had to open up an account and join the community.

I've searched a lot the last days about this topic and didn't find anything(?)

As I am managing my music on my desktop PC via MediaMonkey, I have some tiles tagged with moods like "Good Mood", "Calm/Soothing" etc.

Is there any given possibility that I can sort in Kodi's library mode these variables?


Greetings

quintz

[Hedda]

One solution is to create Smart Playlists for each of those tags

http://kodi.wiki/view/Smart_playlists

Otherwise that might probably be something for an addon

http://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=27

Maybe not for a integrated core function in Kodi by default?

[sialivi]

I use the comments field, which is scraped by Kodi, as a work around to be able filter on fields not currently scraped by Kodi.

While it would be great to get support for fields like mood and tempo, I've already created a related feature request, http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=210237, for something more powerful; support for scraping metadata from the new AcousticBrainz webservice which supplies all sorts of related metadata, such as mood, tempo, gender, genres, scales and keys.

This could greatly improve what kind of smart playlists you could create in Kodi: Want to listen to some metal, with a female vocalist, an agressive mood and a fast beat? No problem.

[quintz]

Thank you Hedda and Sialivi for your answers!

I looked through the wiki entrance for smartlists and I saw that the field for moods for songs isn't available for smart playlists
I just have single songs tagged with moods so this won't work for me : /

Maybe I have to use the work-around with the comment field at last...
The AcousticBrainz thing sounds awesome though!

[Hedda]

I looked through the wiki entrance for smartlists and I saw that the field for moods for songs isn't available for smart playlists

Maybge change your original feature suggestion topic and and description to just a request of extending the tags available for a smart playlist to include "mood" instead then?

Perhaps add a copy of that to also extend JSON-RPC API for this here since that is indirectly related http://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=174

[zag]

Funny you should mention this.

I just implimented "Mood" support on TADB.

Since only one mood is supported you can use the TADB album scraper to import all your albums and it shows very clearly the mood of the artist and album.

Now all we need is node support for this.

Example:
http://www.theaudiodb.com/artist/111239

[DarkHelmet]

Hi Kodi Forum,

after a good while of reading, I had to open up an account and join the community.

I've searched a lot the last days about this topic and didn't find anything(?)

As I am managing my music on my desktop PC via MediaMonkey, I have some tiles tagged with moods like "Good Mood", "Calm/Soothing" etc.

Is there any given possibility that I can sort in Kodi's library mode these variables?


Greetings

quintz

Have you tried the last.fm playlist generator? It queries last.fm for similar songs and dynamically builds a playlist from that.

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=83915

It doesn't use any mood tags but I guess it's a fair assumption, that last.fm assigns "good mood" songs to more "good mood" songs.

[zag]

The new music node feature should now fix this

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=222148

[sialivi]

The new music node feature should now fix this

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=222148

No, it doesn't. Music nodes, like smart playlists, simply doesn't have access to this data since it's never read from the tags and added to the library. You currently have to rely on workarounds, like for example adding the mood to either the comments field or the filename.

[mkortstiege]

Right. AFAIK mood and styles are scraped values and are not read from tags yet.

[quintz]

Right. AFAIK mood and styles are scraped values and are not read from tags yet.

Sad to hear this...
Is there a reason behind this? (To hard to implement or technical dificulites?)

[mkortstiege]

Is there a field for that kind of information or does it have to be in custom/hijacked field within the tag?

[mkortstiege]

Looks like ID3v2 supports this, will try to add. Btw, moods is already supported in smartplaylists as it seems.

[quintz]

Looks like ID3v2 supports this, will try to add. Btw, moods is already supported in smartplaylists as it seems.

I've seen through one of my mp3's which is tagged with the mood "Gute Laune" (Good mood) via mp3tag.



As you can see in the picture, the mood is tagged here (in my case?)

EDIT:

I just checked the functions of the smart playslist. I opened a new one and looked through the variables. There was no mood.
I tried to change it in the .xml but it didn't work either

[mkortstiege]

Looks like ID3v2 supports this, will try to add. Btw, moods is already supported in smartplaylists as it seems.

I've seen through one of my mp3's which is tagged with the mood "Gute Laune" (Good mood) via mp3tag.



As you can see in the picture, the mood is tagged here (in my case?)

Unfortunately that's just some custom comment created by another software. I have added mood for songs in https://github.com/mkortstiege/xbmc/tree/song-mood (quick hack job - not much tested). Once correctly tagged (id3v2.4 field is TMOO), it will be read from tag and will be usable within smartplaylists. Would be cool to get some testers on it. Volunteers?

I just checked the functions of the smart playslist. I opened a new one and looked through the variables. There was no mood.
I tried to change it in the .xml but it didn't work either

The moods filter is currently only available to artists and albums. I guess you had type songs checked?