Preliminary Planning

To be completed by May 25th, 2008

• Literature Review - a brief and informal review of the scientific literature on music similarity and retrieval
• ToolKits - summary of available toolkits/libraries and programs with similar functionality
• SongDatabase - a collection of songs covering a wide variety of genres (from my collection and possibly Creative Commons)
• Evaluation Method - develop some method of determining playlist creation accuracy
• Look at what similar tools do and how well they work (i.e. Mirage for Banshee)

Signal Processing Backend

To be completed by June 30, 2008

• FeatureExtraction - write the feature extraction program using Marsyas
• PlaylistGeneration - detect similar features and come up with a weighting algorithm to generate playlists

Rhythmbox Integration

To be completed by July 31, 2008

• GUI - for plugin options, menus, buttons, etc
• Wrap the backend into a complete plugin package
• DatabaseStorage - find a way to store extracted information, maybe using Rhythmbox's database (on-the-fly processing would likely be too expensive)

Final SoC Deadline: August 18th, 2008