omi alternative

Hi.

I've created a pie chart generation for music tags due to the absence of OMI. scaicha, written in python, is opensource and may be used/improved by anyone.

http://choerbaert.org/wiki/en:scytheman:zeugs:code:scaicha

Feel free to submit improvements or fork it.


Unfortunately there won't be any online service for generating/hosting of those images by me.

Oh, this is nice :).

Did you modify the calculation algorithm? Unfortunately I don't know the one used by musickum. Mine seems to be completely different, and yours is more close to the original one.

Thanks a ton, both of you.

How do we use the first one? I'm curious as to my results for both.

Thanks, cache was one thing I wanted to add too.

I merged your changes (with slightly modifications, e.g. extra directory for cache files). Now it is possible to select between CGI and standard behaviour by simply setting the variable 'CGI'.

You may tell me your full name to add it to the copyright section :).

Well, that´s not just an alternative...it looks nice and the calculation algorithm seems accurate too.Many thanks & I´m curious about the development of it =)

I think slider will be later :)


Added period selection

http://www.last.fm/group/Scaicha :)

Just added OMR, the Open Mind Ratio - check it out ;)

http://omr.musiqum.net

Sure it is different... in the OMR all the other 450 artists in the top 500 (not only the first 50) of your overall charts have an influence as you can read in pirate-pls posting ;)

Scaicha is a good alternative and I'm using it. Thanks! I've tested the OMR but I think that Scaicha is so much better...

But I hope OMI come back soon

i think the same way. but Scaicha is like my musical taste, but what i loved best was open mind index. i miss it. maybe you can do something similar in Scaicha?

The OMR is fine, the only problem with it is well, first, the visuals... the pie charts don't look good at all, Scaicha's version is better but not as good as the old OMI. The main problem with the OMR is that it calculates the number of users which used a tag. This is very, very bad because a lot of people use popular or pointless tags on an artist, so if you listen to that artist a lot you're screwed and can't use the ignore tag feature either.

Scaicha took care of that problem, so what should be done is using BOTH of your works. The OMR slider and calculations, and the pie charts from Scaicha with the ignore tag feature. This is what everyone wants, look around and you will see some users who are already using the combination of both. If you guys can get this working along with better visuals, the OMI doesn't stand a chance assuming it would ever come back in the first place.