Intellimix: what the hell is it, and why is it so strange?

[Assmongrel]

After getting all my songs in the media library, my old method of adding every single song in my library to my playlist seemed a bit odd. So I started playing around with different things, and started a love affair with the intellimix tool. That being said, I've noticed some strange behaviors, to wit:


When you choose "create intellimix from selection", the selected file may not appear in the mix, and in my experience, rarely does.
Certain of my files, when I try to create an intellimix from them, I end up with just that file in the mix. With over 2500 songs at hand, I'm not sure how that would happen.
I've never seen an intellimix that goes over 30 songs. Is that simply a restriction placed by gracenote, or if not, why isn't there an option to change that?
Am I the only one whos noticed these things? Am I the only one using this feature? Am I a large smelly gnome who eats small children?

[Donks]

I noticed those things too. Along with one more, usually 4 songs by the artist of the song selected get picked. So if you don't have many songs by that artist, the one selected will be there. If you do have a lot, then probably not.

[Willow of Oz]

I had an ML of 2 albums, maybe 9 songs each, and doing an intellimix selected four random songs by that artist. Repeatedly, I think.

I also was unsure what the intellimix was trying to do. I haven't tried it since (with a larger ML)

[Shadowraven]

Am I a large smelly gnome who eats small children?

You may be, I can't tell through the computer. If you are, remember that kids taste better with catsup.

[madjo]

After getting all my songs in the media library, my old method of adding every single song in my library to my playlist seemed a bit odd. So I started playing around with different things, and started a love affair with the intellimix tool. That being said, I've noticed some strange behaviors, to wit:


When you choose "create intellimix from selection", the selected file may not appear in the mix, and in my experience, rarely does.
Certain of my files, when I try to create an intellimix from them, I end up with just that file in the mix. With over 2500 songs at hand, I'm not sure how that would happen.
I've never seen an intellimix that goes over 30 songs. Is that simply a restriction placed by gracenote, or if not, why isn't there an option to change that?
Am I the only one whos noticed these things? Am I the only one using this feature? Am I a large smelly gnome who eats small children?
I believe the intellimix makes a small playlist of 30-ish songs (about the size of a cd?) and it tries to match songs together, so that you get a playlist with songs of similar styles... at least that is my experience ;)