Well, firstly I think the fact that other apps do it isn't a good argument for why we should :)
But I think the outcome of this conversation will be that there are two types of people: 1) All of my songs have accurate metadata and are well organised, I like to have a detailed rating system to allow me to further categorise things. 2) Everything is all over the place, cds I ripped, stuff I downloaded, bought from iTunes etc... Metadata is unreliable at best. I use stars to make sense of chaos. They're two kind of different use cases. I am 2) and I've tried to use the 5-star thing in iTunes and found it to be a bit of a waste of time, I'm never going to rate my whole library. I always resort to free text search both there and in Mixxx and probably would use a 1-bit star tag. But yeah, my point is they're two different things really... it depends what use case we want to satisfy. I actually wonder if 1) people are being limited by the 5-star thing and freeform tags wouldn't solve their problem better rather than having to encode their information into the 2.something bits of the stars. Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
