MusicIP Mixer - curious behaviour

[Peter314]

In an idle moment I tried a MusicIP Mix of a track from Van Der Graaf Generator’s Live At The Paradiso. The MusicIP mix settings in my system are quite conservative, so it wasn’t a total surprise when the next track was from the same album, and the third and fourth tracks too.

At this point it had obviously hit some sort of limit and reluctantly shifted to Mars, from Holst’s The Planets, and then something from Ton Koopman’s Bach Organ Spectacular. After this interlude it was back to VDGG live before blossoming with a bunch of tracks from King Crimson, ELP, Yes, The Doors, Mike Oldfield, and quite a few songs from the HDTracks World’s Greatest Audiophile Vocal Recordings.

While there are clearly some genre linkages between a number of the selections, other seemed pretty far apart – more so than generally results from a MusicIP mix. The penny dropped when I realised that what every single track had in common was that it is a 24 bit recording.

A quick test with other 24 bit tracks confirmed this. Seeding a MusicIP mix with a 24 bit recording produces a playlist of exclusively 24-bit tracks. Clearly, MusicIP Mixer sees bit depth as the single most important criterion by far.

I am reluctant to liberalise the mix parameters lest the mix become too random. Anyone know of a way to make MusicIP Mixer “bit-depth blind”?

[mherger]

> A quick test with other 24 bit tracks confirmed this. Seeding a MusicIP
> mix with a 24 bit recording produces a playlist of exclusively 24-bit
> tracks. Clearly, MusicIP Mixer sees bit depth as the single most
> important criterion by far.

I've experienced the same: MIP seems to fail analyzing 24-bit flacs. This is not a SBS issue. Even mixing in MIP would fail.

[Peter314]

Thanks Michael. Sounds as if the only workaround will be to create 16-bit copies purely for mixing.

[chitunes]

I used MusicIP on Windows XP running on a Mac until recently. The program or its server no longer seem to work.

I run 7.4 on Mac OS X Leopard. But can I use MusicIP plug in on the Mac? And if so, how do I run it?

Thanks for any help.