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What Flookey can do for you

Basic Questions

Technical Questions

What Flookey can do for you

How can I navigate my collection?

Flookey allows you to access and explore your music collection in different ways:

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What makes Flookey different from random shuffle?

Random shuffle is precisely that - random. Flookey is the exact opposite of random. It has purpose. Not only does it provide recommendations based on advanced objective and subjective criteria, but it is also constantly learning about your personal music preferences. When you just let Flookey run (effectively using it as an auto DJ), simply listening to a song or skipping past it helps Flookey learn about you, permitting it to continuously and automatically improve the suggestions it generates. You can also take a more active role in guiding Flookey by highlighting a song (or songs) and pressing the Boost button.

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What makes Flookey suggestions different from those based on ID3, tagging, collaborative filtering, etc..?

Flookey provides suggestions based on multiple layers of music analysis and learns which factors are most important to you. As such, it not only combines and improves upon these previous recommendation processes, but it adds an entirely new acoustics layer and personalizes its functionality to you.

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What does it mean that Flookey is 'intelligent'?

Flookey's intelligence is based on its ability to learn how your musical mind works. In fact, it works similar to the human mind. During human learning, when a neurological link in your mind is activated, this link gets stronger. When a link goes unused, it gets weaker. Similarly, each time you follow a link that Flookey suggests, that link and the associated links become stronger. When you don't follow a link, it becomes weaker. Thus, over time, Flookey molds to your musical mind just like pair of slippers molds to your foot.

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Basic Questions

How do I use Flookey? Do you have a quick start guide?

Yes, go here to access the quick start guide. For more information, check out the following Frequently Asked Questions or contact us.

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Why does it take time when I initially load Flookey onto my computer? What's going on?

When you first load Flookey, it needs to analyze and profile your music collection. This will takesa few seconds per song. As such, you might want to run the program overnight. Unlike previous generations of suggestion software, Flookey does not access a central database to do this, but instead processes the music right on your computer. As such, it can map your entire music collection rather than just the music that exists in a central database. After all, this is about your personal music experience, not ours. (See supported file formats)

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What types of audio files does Flookey work with?

Currently, Flookey works with MP3, WAV (44100 Hz), and unprotected WMA, M4A/AAC files.

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Why am I getting certain recommendations that I feel don't seem accurate?

Flookey provides suggestions based on various factors, including objective acoustic analysis, subjective classifications and what it learns about your personal quirks and preferences. Sometimes, suggestions it provides might not seem compatible. For example, they might involve two artists or genres you consider to be completely different. There could be a few reasons for this. First, Flookey is not constrained by the 'inside-the-box' thinking inherent in genre or artist labels. The songs Flookey recommends may in fact be more similar than you would have originally considered, which is the power of Flookey's objective analysis. It avoids the bias and blindness of song classifications or collaborative filtering systems that are heavily biased towards mainstream content and users. Second, Flookey navigates your entire musical universe. If you decide to jump from one part of your library to another part, it might take a few songs to migrate there. Pressing the Boost button several times will get you there faster. Otherwise, the recommendations you get during the migration may seem more like 'morphed' results between the two areas. Third, well, Flookey is powerful and intelligent, but of course it's not perfect. As such, we would certainly love to hear your feedback regarding what does and does not seem to be working for you. This will help us as we strive to improve Flookey and make your music experience more satisfying.

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Where did my history pane go?

The history pane can be hidden by the Play Queue window if you choose; if this happens by accident, you can once again show the history pane by making the play queue window smaller. To make the play queue smaller simply click and drag the header of the Play Queue downwards.

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What is the difference between a play queue and a play list?

When a song finishes playing in a play list, it stays on the list and the next song is played; in a play queue, when the song is done it's moved to the history.

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Why did some songs disappear off of the history?

If you skip a track without listening to it completely, it will be moved to the history until you listen to a song completely. At this point, incompletely played songs will be removed from the history. This way, only completely played songs remain in the history.

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What is the boost button?

The Boost button is your primary way to communicate with Flookey. When you boost a song, you are effectively telling Flookey to provide more suggestions similar the songs you have highlighted. The boost button allows you to finely tune Flookey's suggestions without interrupting what you're currently listening to.

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What are "Bookmarks"?

Bookmarks are a way for you to jump to different, representative parts of your music collection. When Flookey analyzes your music collection, it effectively creates a map of your entire music universe and identifies 'constellations' of similar music called Bookmarks. Selecting one of these Bookmarks is a convenient way to move to a completely new area of your collection. As well as using the Bookmarks suggested by Flookey, you can also save your own.

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When importing an iTunes library does the number of imported albums differ from the number displayed in iTunes?

iTunes displays only the number of 'real' albums. In Flookey an album is just a special case of a playlist. During the import process, Flookey displays the total number of albums and playlists that it has found in your iTunes library.
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How can I return to a previous state of my hotlist?

To return to a previous state of your hotlist, select the items you were listening to from the history list and boost them.
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Technical Questions

What do I need to run Flookey?

Currently Flookey is only available for PC. Specifications and minimum system requirements are as follows:
Download size 4.5 MB.
Microsoft Windows XP or 2000 (Windows 98 and ME are not supported)
Pentium CPU or better
64 MB RAM minimum
Latest Windows service packs recommended
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Are you going to offer a version for Macs?

Yep, we're working on it..but please be sure to contact us and let us know that this is important to you. We would love your feedback.

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When I import my iTunes library, why does the number of imported artists differ from the number displayed in iTunes?

iTunes displays only the number of different artists that appear in the artist property field of tracks; it does not count the composers. Flookey will create an artist node for each person associated with a track. These include both artists and composers.

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When I import my iTunes library, why does the number tracks shown in step 1 and 2 differ from the number of tracks shown in step 3?

Your iTunes library might contain entries with invalid media paths (e.g., files have been removed from the disk). All these files will not make it to step 3.

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What if I have further questions that are not answered here?

If you have further questions please contact us.

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