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    <title>dekstop weblog : miniPlayer musikCube Plugin</title>
    <link>http://dekstop.de/weblog/2005/03/miniplayer/</link>
    <description>miniplayer is a minimal interface plugin for musikCube. it has basic player controls, a search field, it can access your playlists, there is a simple behavior-controlled suggestion mechanism (which is just a fancy way of saying &quot;SQL query&quot;), and a couple of small things that make life easier. I probably ...</description>
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    <dc:rights>Copyright 2005 Martin Dittus</dc:rights>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>miniplayer is a minimal interface plugin for musikCube. it has basic 
player controls, a search field, it can access your playlists, there is 
a simple behavior-controlled suggestion mechanism (which is just a fancy 
way of saying "SQL query"), and a couple of small things that make life 
easier.</p>

<p>I probably like the search field the most. type in a word and hit enter: 
the search result is sent to "now playing", and miniplayer immediately 
starts playback. instant gratification. if no songs are found the search 
field keeps focus, so you can correct your query and try again.</p>

<p>I still have to use the suggestion thing for some time to see if it's 
actually useful. the idea was to support diverse types of listening 
behaviour: keeping track of new music that you recently imported/ripped, 
but also accessing favorites that you like to play more often than 
others; and sometimes you might want to listen to all the stuff that you 
never listen to. you can look at "now playing" to see what gets chosen. 
in album mode, all these functions select a full album instead of a list 
of random tracks.</p>

<p>try it out at <a href="http://dekstop.de/musikcube/">http://dekstop.de/musikcube/</a>.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator>Martin Dittus</dc:creator>
      <category>recommendation engines</category>
      <category>site updates</category>
      <category>software</category>
      
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