On 15 November 2010 07:46, Albert Santoni <albe...@mixxx.org> wrote: > Warning: Possible giant troll.
:) > Hey guys, > > I've always had a beef with 5-star ratings in music applications > that's turned me off using them. I struggle with the meaning of each > rating, and it's always been my hunch that just having a single star > column that you can toggle (a la GMail) would be way more convenient. > > What's the difference between 3, 4 star, and 5 stars? > > If you rate songs as 1 star (out of 5), why do you even have that in > your library? (In Mixxx, you can "Remove" them.) > > The mapping from a 5-star system to my imaginary 1-star system would be: > 4, 5 stars --> starred > 2, 3 stars --> unstarred > 1 star --> remove > > Does anyone actually use all 5 stars? Yeah I do. I've been using 5-star ratings in Madman for years. 5 = absolute favourite 4 = excellent 3 = good 2 = not completely without merit 1 = I'd never voluntarily play this, but it remains in my library for one of the following reasons: (a) it's a track from a CD album which I might want to burn in its original form (b) on rare occasions it might be useful/requested (not all gigs are for the hippest underground crowd, unfortunately some of us still have to do weddings, family barbecues etc sometimes...) Downgrading from a 5-star to a 1-star system is lossy for me, while you can trivially use a 5-star system as if it were a 1-star system if you want. Ben -- Quextal plays progressive and psychedelic breakbeats and 4/4s for innerspace journeying and wild dancing. Free Trips available from http://quextal.com. Search for Quextal on Facebook to get gig/radio info direct. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
